This dialog helps you to edit the properties of a crosstab. It contains the following tabs:
OK
Applies the settings and closes this dialog.
Cancel
Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.
Help
Displays the help document about this feature.
This tab shows some general information of the crosstab. See the tab.
Name
Specifies the display name of the crosstab, which will be shown on the shortcut menu of the crosstab.
Position
Displays the position mode of the crosstab. If the crosstab is directly contained in the report body, a tabular cell, or a text box, its position mode can be modified.
X
Specifies the X coordinate of the crosstab, in inches.
Y
Specifies the Y coordinate of the crosstab, in inches.
Width
Specifies the width of the crosstab, in inches.
Height
Specifies the height of the crosstab, in inches.
Background
Specifies the background color of the crosstab.
To change the color, click the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog and then specify a new color, or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.
This tab shows information about borders of the crosstab. See the tab.
Color
Specifies the color of the borders. To change the color, click the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog and then specify a new color, or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the border transparent, input Transparent in the text box.
Has Border
Specifies whether or not to show the borders.
This tab shows the layout-related information of the crosstab. See the tab.
Horizontal Gap
Specifies the space between the content and left/right edge of a crosstab cell.
Vertical Gap
Specifies the space between the content and top/bottom edge of a crosstab cell.
Block Gap
Specifies the spacing between each part of the crosstab if the crosstab will be split into more than one part.
Boundary Value
Specifies the number of columns in one aggregate cell when the crosstab is displayed horizontally, or rows when displayed vertically.
Row Total on Top
Specifies whether or not to display the Total row in the first row of the crosstab.
Column Total on Left
Specifies whether or not to display the Total column in the first column in the crosstab.
Repeat Column Header
Specifies whether or not to repeat column headings on every page.
Avoid Orphan Header
Sometimes the column header happens to be at the bottom of a page. To keep the column header together with the data in the next page, set this property to true.
Expand Data
Specifies whether or not to enable Page Report Studio users to expand or collapse dimensions in the crosstab.
Suppress Row Header
Specifies whether or not to hide the row headers.
Outside Aggregate Title
Specifies whether or not to place the titles of aggregate fields outside.
Suppress Column Header
Specifies whether or not to hide the column headers.
Table Style
Specifies whether or not to add headers to the Total rows and columns.
Repeat Aggregate
Specifies whether or not to repeat the crosstab for different aggregate fields. For details, see Repeat Aggregate in the JReport Designer User's Guide.
You can use this tab to view and configure some miscellaneous settings. See the tab.
Current Row Block Index
Specifies the vertical index of the data block that will be displayed. 0 means the first block index, and 1 the second, and so on.
Current Column Block Index
Specifies the horizontal index of the data block that will be displayed. 0 means the first block index, and 1 the second, and so on.
Items per Row Block
Specifies the number of rows of records in each data block.
Items per Column Block
Specifies the number of columns of records in each data block.
The four properties work together to control the data of the crosstab to be displayed in continuous page mode: Current Row Block Index, Current Column Block Index, Items per Row Block, and Items per Column Block.
TOC Anchor
Specifies whether or not to add the node that represents the crosstab to the TOC tree that is displayed in the TOC Browser.
Suppress When No Records
If true and no records are returned by the report, the crosstab will not be displayed.
Export to XLS
If true, the crosstab will be exported when you save the report result as an XLS file (make sure to check Data Format in the Export dialog).
Export to CSV
If true, the crosstab will be exported when you save the report result as a TXT file with Delimited Format selected.
