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Table

The Table control is designed to arrange information in a tabular layout. It may contain any number of Rows comprised of individual Cells. Both Rows and Cells can be selected and customized individually. In most aspects, a Cell is similar to a Label, but can also contain other controls (e.g. Picture Box or Rich Text).

When a Table is dropped onto a band from the Toolbox, it has one row and three columns. If you click and drag over several bands, the resulting table will be split by the bands into several tables. This creates a table header and the detail table with one mouse move.

When you drag and drop an entire data table from the Field List, a Table with cells bound to the corresponding data fields is created automatically.


A table's elements are managed by using its Context Menu.

The whole Table, or its individual Row or Cell can be selected either in the Report Designer, the Report Explorer or the drop-down selector of the Property Grid.

In the Property Grid , the Table's properties are divided into the following groups.

• Background Color
  

  Specifies the background color for the control. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar  ().

• Borders, Border Color and Border Width
  

  Specify border settings for the control.

• Font
  

  Specifies the font settings for the control. Some of these settings are available in the Formatting Toolbar.

• Foreground Color
  

  Specifies the text color for the control. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar ().

• Formatting Rules

  Invokes the Formatting Rules Editor, allowing you to choose which rules should be applied to the control during report generation, and define the precedence of the applied rules. 

• Padding
  

  Specifies indent values which are used to render the contents of a Table's cells.

• Style Priority
  

  Allows you to define the priority of various style elements (such as background color, border color, etc.). 

• Styles
  

  This property allows you to define odd and even styles for the control, as well as to assign an existing style to the control (or a newly created one).
  

  Text Alignment

• Allows you to change the alignment of a Table's text. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar.

• Anchor Vertically
  

  Specifies the vertical anchoring style of a Table, so that after page rendering it stays attached to the top control, bottom control, or both.

• Keep Together
  

  Specifies whether the contents of a Table can be horizontally split across pages. In other words, if a Table occupies more space than remains on the page, this property specifies whether the Table should be split between the current page and the next, or whether it will be printed entirely on the next page. This property is in effect only when a Table's content does not fit on the current page. If it does not fit on the next page either, then the Table will be split despite this property's value.

• Scripts
  

  This property contains events, which you can handle with the required scripts. 

• Visible
  

  Specifies whether the control should be visible in print preview.

• Tag
  

  This property allows you to add some additional information to the control; for example its id, by which it can then be accessible via scripts.
  

• (Name)
  

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

• Location
  

  Specifies the control's location, in report measurement units.
  

• Size
  

  Specifies the control's size, in report measurement units.
  

• Snap Line Margin
  

  Specifies the margin (in report measurement units), which is to be preserved around the control when it is aligned using Snap Lines, or when other controls are aligned next to it.
  

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