Check Box

The Check Box control is used to indicate True/False or Checked/Unchecked/Indeterminate states in a report, by displaying a check mark and adjacent text.

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

Appearance

• Background Color

  Specifies the background colour for the control. This option is also available on the Formatting Toolbar ().

• Borders, Border Color and Border Width

  Specifies border settings for the control.

• Font

  Specifies the font settings for the control. Some of these settings are available on the Formatting Toolbar.

• Foreground Color

  Specifies the text colour for the control. 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 control 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 a Check Box.

• 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 is used to define odd and even styles for the control, as well as to assign an existing style to the control (or a newly created one). for further information on style inheritance, refer to Styles Concepts.

• Text Alignment

  Used to change the alignment of the control's text. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar.

Behavior

• 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 Check Boxes located between upper and lower controls, which are able to resize depending on their contents.

• Keep Together

  Specifies whether the contents of a Check Box can be horizontally split across pages. In other words, if a Check Box occupies more space than remains on the page, this property specifies whether this Check Box should be split between the current page and the next, or whether it will be printed entirely on the next page. If a check box does not fit on the next page either, then the Check Box will be split despite this property's setting.

• 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 control should be visible when the report is previewed.

• Word Wrap

  When this property is set to Yes, text entered into a Check Box is wrapped to the next line if it does not fit the line.

Data

• (Data Bindings)

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

• Check State

  This property is used to specify the Checked/Unchecked/Indeterminate state of a Check Box (the Indeterminate state is displayed as a greyed out checked box.) Note that if only Checked and Unchecked states are to be used, use the Checked property instead.

• Checked

  This property is used to define whether a Check Box is checked or not.

• Tag

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

• Text

  Used to define a line of static text to be displayed.

  Note: When a Check Box is selected in the designer, a user may start typing the text, and it will be automatically entered into the in-place editor.

  

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

Layout

• Location

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

• Size

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

Navigation

• Bookmark and Parent Bookmark

  These properties are intended for the creation of a hierarchical structure within a report called a document map. for further information, refer to Add Bookmarks.

  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.

• Navigation URL and Navigation Target

  Use the Navigation URL property to specify a URL for web browser navigation when a user clicks a Check Box. The web browser displays a page in a window or a frame as specified by the Navigation Target property.

  Note: A URL should have an appropriate prefix (for example, 'http://').

  A crossReport reference within the report can be created by assigning the name of the target control to the Navigation URL property, and setting the Navigation Target property to '_self'. for further information, refer to Create Hyperlinks.

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