Table Wizard

This wizard is displayed when you do one of the following:

• Select a table, then click Menu > Edit > Wizard.
• Select a table, then click the Table Wizard button on the Context toolbar.
• Right-click the icon of a table and select Table Wizard from the shortcut menu.

It helps you to change data of the table and consists of the following tabs:

• Display tab
• Group tab

Table Title

Specifies a title for the table.

Specifies the font properties of the table title.

• Font
  Lists all the available font faces that can be selected to apply to the title.
• Font Style
  Specifies the font style of the title. It can be one of the following: plain, bold, italic, and bold italic.
• Size
  Specifies the font size of the title.
• Align
  Specifies the position of the title to be left, right, center or justify.
• Font Color
  Specifies the font color of the title.
• Background Color
  Specifies the background color of the title.

Data Source

Displays the business view that has been used in the table.

Filter

Opens the Query Filter dialog to specify the filter which you want to apply to the selected business view.

Display tab

Specifies the fields to be displayed in the table. See the tab.

Resources

Displays all the view elements in the selected business view.

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.

Adds the selected view element to be displayed in the table.

Removes the selected view element.

Field

Lists the view elements that have been added to the table.

Label

Specifies the display names of the selected fields.

Moves the selected view element one step up.

Moves the selected view element one step down.

Sort Fields By

Opens the Custom Sort dialog to specify how to sort data in the table.

Group tab

Specifies the fields to group the data. See the tab.

Resources

Displays all the available group objects you can use to group the data in the table.

Sorts the group objects 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.

Launches the quick search toolbar to search for group objects.

Adds the selected group object as a group field.

Removes the selected group object.

Field

Lists all the group objects that have been added as the group fields.

Sort

Specifies the sort order for each group: Ascend, Descend, or No Sort.

Moves the selected group one step up.

Moves the selected group one step down.

OK

Applies the changes and closes the wizard.

Cancel

Does not retain changes and closes this wizard.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

Related topics:

• Changing the table definition