Cross-band Line

A Cross-band Line control is used to draw a line through several bands.

This can be useful if it is required to visually emphasize a part of a report that covers multiple band areas. In other aspects, this control is similar to the Line control.

The Report Designer supports one more cross-band control. Refer to Cross-band Box.

In the Property Grid, the Cross-band Line control's properties are divided into the following groups:

Appearance

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.

Line Style

Used to select the line style: solid (the default), dashed, dotted or mixed.

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.

Visible

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

Data

Tag

Adds additional information to a control; for example, the Id, by which the control can then be accessed via scripts.

Design

(Name)

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

Layout

End Band

Specifies the band in which the line ends.

End Point

Specifies the end point of the line (from upper left corner of the band specified by the End Band property).

Location

Specifies the location of the control in report measurement units.

Snap Line Margin

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

Start Band

Specifies the band in which the line starts.

Start Point

Specifies the start point of the line (from upper left corner of the band specified by the Start Band property).

Width

Specifies the line's width in report measurement units.