Cross-band Line

Reporting User Guide

Reference : Report Controls : Cross-band Line

A Cross-band Line control is used to draw a line through several bands.

This can be useful if it is required to visually emphasise a part of a report that covers multiple band areas. In other aspects, this control is similar to the Line control.

Reporting supports one more cross-band control. Refer to Cross-band Box.

In the Property Grid, the Cross-band Line control's properties are divided into the following groups:

Appearance

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Foreground Color

Specifies the colour of the control's line. This option is also available on the Formatting Toolbar (

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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. Refer to Conditionally Change a Control's Appearance for further information.

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Line Style

Used to select the line style: solid (the default), dashed, dotted or mixed.

Behaviour

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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.

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Visible

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

Data

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Tag

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

Design

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(Name)

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

Layout

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End Band

Specifies the band in which the line ends.

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End Point

Specifies the end point of the line (from upper left corner of the band specified by the End Band property).

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Start Band

Specifies the band in which the line starts.

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Start Point

Specifies the start point of the line (from upper left corner of the band specified by the Start Band property).

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Width

Specifies the line's width in report measurement units.