Special Field Properties dialog

The dialog appears when you right-click a special field and select Properties from the shortcut menu. It helps you to edit the properties of the special field and contains the following tabs:

• General tab
• Font tab
• Border 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 special field. See the tab.

Name

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

Width

Specifies the width of the special field.

Type

Specifies the type of the special field. Select a new one from the drop-down list if you want to change the type. The following types are available:

• User Name
  Prints the user name with which you log onto JReport Server.
• Modified Date
  Prints the last modified date for the catalog.
• Modified Time
  Prints the last modified time for the catalog.
• Print Date
  Prints today's date (or the current date from your computer).
• Print Time
  Prints the current time from your computer.
• Fetch Date
  Prints the date when the data is retrieved from the database.
• Fetch Time
  Prints the time when the data is retrieved from the database.

Height

Specifies the height of the special field.

Position

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

• Absolute: The special field's position will be decided by its X and Y property values.
• Static: The special field 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.

Top Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the special field and its top border.

Bottom Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the special field and its bottom border.

Left Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the special field and its left border.

Right Padding

Specifies the space between the text of the special field and its right border.

Background

Specifies the background color of the special field.

To change the color, click the color indicator to select a color, or click More Colors in the color indicator to access the Color Picker dialog in which you can select a color within a wider range or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.

Foreground

Specifies the foreground color of the special field.

To change the color, click the color indicator to select a color, or click More Colors in the color indicator to access the Color Picker dialog in which you can select a color within a wider range or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB.

Font tab

This tab shows the font-related information of the special field. You can modify all the font settings in this tab. See the tab.

Font

Specifies the font face of the special field text.

Size

Specifies the font size of the special field text.

Horizontal Alignment

Specifies the horizontal alignment mode of the text in the special field.

Vertical Alignment

Specifies the vertical alignment mode of the text in the special field.

Bold

Specifies whether to make the object text bold or not.

Underline

Specifies whether the field text will be underlined or not.

Strikethrough

Specifies whether or not to attach a strikeout line to the field text.

Italic

Specifies whether to make the field text italic or not.

Autofit

Specifies whether or not to automatically adjust the width of the special field.

Word Wrap

Specifies whether or not to wrap the text to the special field width.

Ignore HTML Tag

If this option is unchecked, JReport will parse HTML tag elements in the field value while the report is to be saved as an HTML file; or the field value will appear in the HTML file the same as that in Web Report Studio (HTML tag elements in the field value, if any, will not be parsed).

Border tab

This tab shows information about borders of the special field. You can modify all the border settings in this tab. See the tab.

Color

Specifies the border color.

Width

Specifies the border width.

Top Line

Specifies the style of the top border line.

Bottom Line

Specifies the style of the bottom border line.

Left Line

Specifies the style of the left border line.

Right Line

Specifies the style of the right border line.

Shadow

Specifies whether the borders will have a shadow effect or not.

Shadow Color

Specifies the color of the border shadow.