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 ().

• Border Color, Border Dash Style, Border Width and Borders – Specifies border settings for controls.

• 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 you 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 text alignment of the controls contained within the bands. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar.

Behavior

• 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.

• Snap Line Padding – Specifies indent values used to render the contents of the band, which are maintained when the control is aligned using snap lines.

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 height in report measurement units.

  Note: That 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.

• Snap Line Margin – Specifies the margins for the control, which are maintained when the control is aligned using snap lines.