Page Margin Bands

The Top Margin and Bottom Margin bands represent the top and bottom page margins. They are intended for displaying page numbers, or some sort of supplementary information (for example, current system time or the user name).

In the Property Grid, the properties of these bands 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 ().

• Borders, Border Color and Border Width

  Specifies border settings for the controls contained within the band.

• 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 used 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 which are used to render the contents of the controls contained within the bands.

• Style Priority

  Used to define the priority of various style elements (such as background colour, border colour, ). for further information on style inheritance, refer to Styles Concepts.

• Styles

  This property enables users to define odd and even styles for the controls contained within the bands, as well as to assign an existing style to them (or a newly created one). for further information on style inheritance, refer to Styles Concepts.

• Text Alignment

  Used to change the text alignment of the controls contained within the bands. This option is also available on the Formatting Toolbar.

Behavior

• Scripts

  This property contains events, which can be handled with the scripts. for further information on scripting, refer to Handle Events via Scripts.

• Visible

  Specifies whether the band should be visible when the report is previewed.

Data

• Tag

  This property is used to add additional information to the band; for example its Id, by which it can then be accessible by scripts.

Design

• (Name)

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

Layout

• Height

  Specifies the band's height, in report units.

  Note: This property is tied to the report's Margins.Top (or Margins.Bottom) property, so that changing this property's value will cause the appropriate Margin value to be changed, and vice versa.