Insert Filter Control dialog

The dialog appears when you drag Filter Control from the Components panel to a report, or click Menu > Insert > Filter Control. It helps you to insert a filter control into a report for filtering data components in the report. See the dialog.

Select Fields

Specifies the fields to bind to the filter control. All the selected fields should be of the same data type. All uncomparable data type fields cannot be bound to filter controls, such as Binary, Blob, Clob, Longvarchar, Longvarbinary, and Varbinary.

The common usage is to select one field, and then based on the field to filter the data of the components created from the same data source as the field.

To filter components using different data sources, choose a common field all the data sources contain and select the field in all the data sources.

Sorts the view elements in the specified order from the drop-down list. Once a user changes the order, it will be applied to all the resource trees where business view elements are listed for this user.

• Predefined Order
  Sorts the view elements in the order defined in the Business View Editor on JReport Designer.
• Resource Types
  Sorts the view elements by resource type, namely category objects come first, then group objects, then aggregation objects, and at last detail objects.
• Alphabetical Order
  Sorts the view elements in alphabetical order. Elements that are not in any category will be sorted first, then the categories, and the elements in each category will also be sorted alphabetically.

Launches the quick search toolbar to search for view elements.

• Text box
  The quick search toolbar treats view elements as strings and searches by consecutive text. Type in the text you want to search for in the text box and the matched text will be highlighted among the view elements.
• X
  Closes the quick search toolbar.
• 
  Lists more search options.
  • Highlight All
    Specifies whether to highlight all matched text.
  • Match Case
    Specifies whether to search for text that meets the case of the typed text.
  • Match Whole Word
    Specifies whether to search for text that looks the same as the typed text.
• 
  Highlights the previous matched text.
• 
  Highlights the next matched text.

Apply To

Specifies the components to which the filter created with the filter control will be applied.

OK

Inserts a filter control into the report and closes the dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the insertion and closes the dialog.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.