Tabular Properties dialog

This dialog helps you to edit the properties of a tabular. It contains the following tabs:

• General tab
• Others tab

OK

Applies the settings and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.

Help

Displays this help document.

General tab

This tab shows some general information of the tabular. See the tab.

Name

Specifies the display name of the tabular, which will be shown on the shortcut menu of the tabular.

Position

Specifies the position mode of the tabular. If the tabular is directly contained in the report body, a tabular cell, or a text box, its position mode can be modified.

• Absolute: The tabular's position will be decided by its X and Y property values.
• Static: The tabular will be positioned at the default location in its container. If selected, the X, Y and other position-related properties will be hidden or disabled.

Vertical Auto Size

Specifies whether or not to automatically adjust the height of the tabular according to the size of the components inserted.

Horizontal Auto Size

Specifies whether or not to automatically adjust the width of the tabular according to the size of the components inserted.

X

Specifies the X coordinate of the tabular.

Y

Specifies the Y coordinate of the tabular.

Width

Specifies the width of the tabular.

Height

Specifies the height of the tabular.

Background

Specifies the background color of the tabular.

To change the color, click the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog and then specify a new color, or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.

Others tab

You can use this tab to view and configure some miscellaneous settings. See the tab.

TOC Anchor

Specifies whether or not to add the node that represents the tabular to the TOC tree that is displayed in the TOC Browser.

Suppress When No Records

If true and no records are returned by the report, the tabular will not be displayed.

Export to XLS

If true, the tabular will be exported when you save the report result as an XLS file (make sure to check Data Format in the Export dialog).

Export to CSV

If true, the tabular will be exported when you save the report result as a TXT file with Delimited Format selected.