Property Name Description Editable Formula Control Data Type General ClassType Display the class type: DetailPanel. N N _ Geometry Width The width of the section. Y N Float Height The height of the section. Y N Float Color Background The background color. Use a string like "0xff00ff" to control or select a color in the palette. Y Y String Others Style Apply predefined styles for the background color, width, invisible, underlay etc. properties to another Detail section. Y N String Invisible If true, not displayed in the View and the Design mode. Y Y Boolean Suppressed If true, not displayed in the View mode. Y Y Boolean ExportToCSV* If set to false, the section will not be exported when exporting the report to a csv file. Y Y Boolean ExportToXLS* If set to False, the section will not be exported when exporting the report to Excel file. (Make sure to check Excel2000 on the Export to XLS dialog.) Y Y Boolean Label Display the section name in the Design mode. Y N String OnNewPage If the current page can’t hold the whole contents of the section, the contents will cross the page if set true or start from a new page if set false. Y Y (Before PageBreak) Boolean Underlay The section will go to the next section’s underground if set true. The feature works only the next section is Detail. Y Y (Before PageBreak) Boolean CanCrossPage If the current page can’t hold the whole contents in the section, the contents will cross the page if set true or start from a new page if set false. Y Y (Before PageBreak) Boolean SuppressBlankSection If set to true, and the section is blank (no child), then it is suppressed in the View mode. Y Y (Before PageBreak) Boolean FillWholePage The next section will start from a new page if set true. Y Y (Before PageBreak) Boolean TileDetailSection* One page can display more than one section in a horizontal direction if set true. You need to set detail width to 1/2 or 1/3 of the page width. Y N Boolean TileHorizontal* Available if the TileDetailSection property is set to true. It starts displaying from the row then column direction if set true. Y N Boolean
You will find this property is useful when you are making mail-label type report to save your print papers.
You can develop your report just as blank. Then in Report Inspector, click
the DetailPanel, change the following properties of detail section:
TileDetailSection = true
Width = *** (width of the detail section. You can set this value
according to the width of one column need.)
After choosing TailDetailSection property, you are concerned about how to arrange them, first horizontally then vertically or first vertically then horizontally. You can use the TileHorizontal property to adjust:
The default value is true, it displays as:
1 2 3
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10 11 12For false, it displays as:
1 5 9
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3 7 11
4 8 12The above two ways are to lay your report details. In addition to the normal vertically listed sections, we provide horizontal page break template - HBlank. You can take advantage of it. Reference Note: Tutorial | Lesson 5 Developing Columnar Report.
