The properties of a special field are:
| Property Name | Description | Editable | Formula Controllable | Data Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General | ||||
| Class Type | Displays the class type of the object. | N | N | _ |
| Geometry | ||||
| X | The horizontal coordinate of the left top corner in the container. | Y | Y | Float |
| Y | The vertical coordinate of the left top corner in the container. | Y | Y | Float |
| Width | The width of the special field. | Y | Y | Float |
| Height | The height of the special field. | Y | Y | Float |
| Color | ||||
| Background | The background color. | Y | Y | String |
| Foreground | The foreground color. | Y | Y | String |
| CSS | ||||
| Style | Applies a style to the object. | Y | N | String |
| ID | An identifier for the special field. It must be unique in the report set. The ID property can be a style sheet selector. | Y | Y | String |
| Class | This property assigns a class name to an object. Any number of objects may be assigned the same class name. On the other hand, assigns one or more class names to an object; the object may be said to belong to these classes. A class name may be shared by several objects. This property only has one role in JReport: as a style sheet selector (when an author wishes to assign style information to a set of objects). | Y | Y | String |
| External CSS Class Selector | Specifies the name of the class selector which will describe the style for the object when exporting the report result in HTML format. | Y | Y | String |
| Excel | ||||
| Column Index | Specifies the X coordinate of the selected object in the exported XLS or CSV file. An object with this property value less than 1 will not be included in the exported XLS or CSV file. If you set the report property Columned to true, Column Index property of an object will be automatically set to a value according to its position in its parent. | Y | N | Integer |
| Row Index | Specifies the Y coordinate of the object in the exported XLS or CSV file. An object with this property value less than 1 will not be included in the exported XLS or CSV file. If you set the report property Columned to true, Row Index property of the object will be automatically set to a value according to its position in its parent. | Y | N | Integer |
| Border | ||||
| Border Thickness | The width of the border. | Y | N | Float |
| Top Line | The line style of the top border. | Y | N | Integer |
| Bottom Line | The line style of the bottom border. | Y | N | Integer |
| Left Line | The line style of the left border. | Y | N | Integer |
| Right Line | The line style of the right border. | Y | N | Integer |
| Shadow | Specifies whether or not to draw a shadow. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Border Color | The color of the border. | Y | Y | String |
| Shadow Color | The color of the shadow. | Y | Y | String |
| Pattern | ||||
| Pattern Color | Specifies a color to draw a pattern to fill the special field. | Y | Y | String |
| Pattern Style | The pattern of the special field. | Y | N | Integer |
| Text Format | ||||
| Font Face | The font to be used. | Y | Y | String |
| Font Size | The size of the text. | Y | N | Float |
| Bold | Specifies whether or not to make the text bold. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Italic | Specifies whether or not to make the text italic. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Strikethrough | Specifies whether or not to add a Strikethrough line to the text. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Underline | Specifies whether or not to underline the contents. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Format | The display format for the field. It varies with data type, and can be manually defined. | Y | Y | String |
| Autofit | Adjusts the width of the special field according to the contents. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Maximum Width | Often works with the Autofit property. If Autofit = true, Maximum Width is not equal to 0, the content will extend until the width is this value. | Y | N | Float |
| Word Wrap | Wrap the displayed content to the width. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Ignore HTML Tag | If this property is set to true, HTML tag elements in the field value will be parsed while the report set is to be saved as an HTML file; or the field value will appear in the HTML file the same as that in JReport Designer (HTML tag elements in the field value, if any, will not be parsed). | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Vertical Alignment | Vertical justification of the text in the special field. | Y | N | Integer |
| Horizontal Alignment | Horizontal justification of the text in the special field. | Y | N | Integer |
| Others | ||||
| Position | Indicates how to position the object. | Y | N | Integer |
| Invisible | If true, the object will not be displayed in both design and view modes. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Suppress | If true, the object will not be displayed in view mode. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Suppress When No Records | If true and no record returned for the data container, the object will not be displayed in view mode. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Record Location | Specifies the calculation point for the properties of the object. | Y | N | Integer |
| Export to CSV | If false, the object will not be exported when the report result is to be exported to a CSV file. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Export to Excel | If false, the special field will not be exported when the report result is to be exported to an XLS file. (Make sure that Excel 2000 in the Export to XLS dialog is checked.) | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Link | Contains the link information. | Y | N | String |
| Enable Hyperlink in PDF | Specifies whether or not to contain the hyperlinks when exporting the result to a PDF file. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Enable Hyperlink in Excel | Specifies whether or not to contain the hyperlinks when exporting the result to an XLS file. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Enable Hyperlink in HTML | Specifies whether or not to contain the hyperlinks when exporting the result to an HTML file. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Detail Report | Specifies the detail report that the special field is linked to. | Y | N | String |
| Transfer Style | Specifies whether or not to transfer the component style to the link report if the object is bound with a link to a report. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Go to Detail | Specifies whether or not to enable the Go-to-detail action on the object. With this action enabled, you can click the object to show the detailed information in JReport Web. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Link Catalog | Specifies the path and filename of the catalog that the link report belongs to. | Y | Y | String |
| Field Type | Specifies the type of the special field. | Y | N | Integer |
| TOC | ||||
| TOC Anchor | Specifies whether or not to add the node that represents this object to the TOC tree. Only applicable for special fields in a banded object or table. | Y | Y | Boolean |
| Anchor Display Value | If TOC Anchor = true, the property value of Anchor Display Value will be displayed on the TOC tree as the text of the node representing the object. Only applicable for special fields in a banded object or table. | Y | Y | String |