Group Properties dialog

This dialog helps you to edit the properties of a group object. It contains the following tabs:

• General tab
• Others tab

OK

Applies the settings and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

General tab

This tab shows some general information of the group object. See the tab.

Expand Detail Data

Specifies whether to expand or collapse the detailed records in the group level.

Keep Group Together

Specifies whether or not to try to keep groups wholly in a report page (try not to make a group across two pages).

Repeat While Group Footer

If the group header is set to be repeated, you can specify whether or not to still repeat the group header when a page break occurs on the group footer.

Shrink Footer

Specifies whether or not to shrink the group footer when you shrink detailed records in the group level.

Special Function

Specifies a special function for the group level to group. This option is available only when the group field is of the Date/Time type.

Select Type

Specifies the type for Select N condition:

• ALL: The Select N condition will not take effect, and all groups will be retrieved.
• TOP_N: The first N groups of the group level will be displayed. Herein N is what you type in the Select N text box.
• BOTTOM_N: The last N groups of the group level will be displayed. N is the integer you type in the Select N text box.

Select N

If you want only the first or last several groups of the group level to be displayed, you can type an integer which will be the number of groups to be displayed.

Sort

Specifies a sorting direction for the groups of the group level.

Others tab

You can use this tab to view and configure some miscellaneous settings. See the tab.

TOC Anchor

Specifies whether or not to add the node that represents the object to the TOC tree that is displayed in the TOC Browser.