Cross-band Box

The Cross-band Box control is used to draw a rectangle through several bands.

This can be useful if it is required to visually emphasize a section that covers multiple band areas by surrounding it with a rectangle.

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

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

Appearance

Border Color, Border Dash Style, Border Width and Border

Specifies border settings for controls.

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.

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 box ends.

End Point

Specifies the end point of the box (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 box starts.

Start Point

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

Width

Specifies the box's width, in report measurement units.