Special Field Properties dialog

This dialog helps you to edit the properties of a special field. 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.

General tab

This tab shows some general information of the special field. See the tab.

Name

Specifies the display name of the special field, which will be shown on the shortcut menu of the special field.

Position

Specifies the position mode of the special field. If the special field is directly contained in the report body, a tabular cell, or a text box, its position mode can be modified.

Type

Specifies the type of the special field. Select a new one from the drop-down list if you want to change the type. The following types are available:

X

Specifies the X coordinate of the special field.

Y

Specifies the Y coordinate of the special field.

Width

Specifies the width of the special field.

Height

Specifies the height of the special field.

Background

Specifies the background color of the special field.

To change the color, click the color indicator to bring out 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.

Foreground

Specifies the foreground color of the special field.

To change the color, click the color indicator to bring out the Select Color dialog and then specify a new color, or input a color string in the text box.

Font tab

This tab shows the font-related information of the special field. You can modify all the font settings in this tab. See the tab.

Font

Specifies the font face of the field text.

Size

Specifies the font size of the field text.

Horizontal Alignment

Specifies the horizontal alignment mode of the text in the special field.

Vertical Alignment

Specifies the vertical alignment mode of the text in the special field.

Bold

Specifies whether to make the object text bold or not.

Underline

Specifies whether the field text will be underlined or not.

Strikethrough

Specifies whether or not to attach a strikeout line to the field text.

Italic

Specifies whether to make the field text italic or not.

Autofit

Specifies whether or not to automatically adjust the width of the special field.

Word Wrap

Specifies whether or not to wrap the text to the special field width.

Ignore HTML Tag

If this option is unchecked, JReport will parse HTML tag elements in the field value while the report is to be saved as an HTML file; or the field value will appear in the HTML file the same as that in Page Report Studio (HTML tag elements in the field value, if any, will not be parsed).

Repeat

Specifies whether to repeat the group name in the report result. Only available for table and it takes effect only when the group by field is placed in the detail row.

Border tab

This tab shows information about borders of the special field. You can modify all the border settings in this tab. See the tab.

Color

Specifies the border color.

Width

Specifies the border width.

Top Line

Specifies the style of the top border line.

Bottom Line

Specifies the style of the bottom border line.

Left Line

Specifies the style of the left border line.

Right Line

Specifies the style of the right border line.

Shadow

Specifies whether the borders will have a shadow effect or not.

Shadow Color

Specifies the color of the border shadow.

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 special field 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 special field will not be displayed.

Export to XLS

If true, the special field 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 special field will be exported when you save the report result as a TXT file with Delimited Format selected.

Logic Column

Specifies whether to show the special field in the next visible table cell in the same row when the column which holds the field is hidden.

Data Evaluation Setting

Specifies the group information for the object. Available only for the group by fields in table.

Display tab

You can use this tab to modify the render type of the special field. For details, see the Data Field Properties dialog.