Table

The Table control is used to arrange the report information in a tabular layout.

When a Table control is dropped onto a report's band from the Standard Controls toolbar, it becomes a table of one row and three columns. If the user clicks and drags over several bands, the resulting table will be split by the bands into several tables. This enables the creation of a table header in the header band and the table's body, with one mouse move.

A Table control bound to data is created automatically when a data table is dragged and dropped from the Field List window.

Manage a Table's elements by using its Context Menu.

A Table control consists of Table Row controls, each representing one table row. Each Table Row consists in turn of Table Cell controls, each representing one table cell. They can be selected and customized individually (refer to Table Row and Table Cell).

To select the Table control in the Report Designer, use the Report Explorer or the dropdown menu of the Property Grid.

In the Property Grid, the Table control's properties are divided into the following groups:

Appearance

Background Color

Specifies the background colour for the controls contained within the band. This option is also available on the Formatting Toolbar ().

Border Color, Border Dash Style, Border Width and Borders

Specifies border settings for the control.

Font

Specifies the font settings for the controls contained within the band. Some of these settings are available on the Formatting Toolbar.

Foreground Color

Specifies the text colour for the controls contained within the band. This option is also available on the Formatting Toolbar ().

Formatting Rules

Displays the Formatting Rules Editor which enables users to choose which rules should be applied to the band during report generation, and define the precedence of the applied rules. For further information, refer to Conditionally Change a Control's Appearance.

Padding

Specifies indent values used to render the contents of the controls.

Style Priority

Defines the priority of various styles (for example, background colour or border colour). For further information on style inheritance, refer to Styles Concepts.

Styles

Defines odd and even styles for the controls, as well as assigning an existing style to the them (or a newly created one).. For further information on style inheritance, refer to Styles Concepts.

Text Alignment

Used to change the alignment of Table text. This option is also available on the Formatting Toolbar.

Behaviour

Anchor Vertically

Specifies the vertical anchoring style of the control, so that after page rendering it stays attached to the top control, bottom control, or both. The property setting is useful for data-bound controls located between upper and lower controls, which are able to resize depending on their contents.

Keep Together

Specifies whether the contents of the band can be horizontally split across pages. Reporting attempts to keep band entries on a single page. In general, if the contents are too large to fit on a single page, then the band is started on a new page, and continues on the following page.

If a control does not fit on the next page either, then the control will be split despite this property's value.

Scripts

Contains events which can be handled with scripts. For further information on scripting, refer to Handle Events via Scripts.

Visible

Specifies whether the band is visible when using the print preview.

Data

Tag

Adds additional information to a report, for example, the id, by which the report can then be accessible via scripts.

If the current report has a data source, the Tag property can be bound to a data field obtained from the data source. To do this, expand the (Data Bindings) property and from the Tag.Binding dropdown list, select the required data field.

(Data Bindings)

If the current report is bound to data, the property is used to bind control properties (Bookmark, Navigation URL, Tag and Text) to a data field obtained from the report data source, and to apply a format string. For further information, refer to Display Values from a Database (Bind Report Elements to Data).

Design

(Name)

Determines a control's name, by which it can be accessed in the Report Explorer, the Property Grid and via scripts.

Layout

Location

Specifies the location of the control in report measurement units.

Size

Specifies the control's size, in report measurement units.

Snap Line Margin

Specifies the margins for the control, which are maintained when the control is aligned using snap lines.

Navigation

Bookmark and Parent Bookmark

These properties are used to create a hierarchical structure within a report called a document map.

If the current report has a data source, the Bookmark property can be bound to a data field obtained from the data source. To do this, expand the (Data Bindings) property and from the Bookmark.Binding dropdown list, select the required data field.

For further information, refer to Add Bookmarks.