Genero Report Designer (Standalone) User Guide 3.21

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  • Genero Report Designer User Guide
  • What's New in 3.21
  • Overview of Genero Report Designer
    • Genero reports
    • The Report Design window
    • The Report output
    • The work area
    • The Tool Box view
  • Designing a Report
    • Launch the Report Designer
    • Data view
      • Adding data values and captions
      • Support for arbitrary XML data sources
    • Placing elements on the report page
      • Absolute or relative positioning
      • Drag-and-drop objects
      • Choose containers
      • Choose report elements
      • Modify the sizing policy of containers
      • Modify an object's borders, margins, or padding
        • Size expressions for bordered boxes
      • Align and format numbers
      • Center elements
      • Position elements at the bottom right
    • Organizing the report structure (the Report Structure view)
      • The tree structure
      • Triggers
        • Place a trigger within the report structure
      • Add headers and footers
      • Switch child and parent nodes
      • Example report structure
    • Changing a property value (The Properties view)
      • Report Design Document metadata
    • Using page numbers
      • Setting the length of a page number
      • Using a page number string
      • Display an invoice page number
    • Print group totals and report totals
      • Display totals on a report
      • Print totals at the beginning
    • Specify different pages
      • Specify different first and last pages
      • Specify a different reverse side page
      • Start on an odd or even page
    • Design labels
      • Design address labels
    • Specify paper settings
      • Configure the output
    • Other Report Designer tasks
      • Change the type of a report element
      • Design for pre-printed forms
      • Print a value from the previous page
      • Show or hide a report element
      • Use hyperlinks
      • Hide repeated values
  • Working with tables
    • Add a table to a report
    • Assign content to a column
    • Set the triggers
    • Merge cells
    • Add rows or columns
    • Add headers and footers
    • Change the width of a table
    • Change the width of a column
  • Working with business graphs
    • Types of business graph
      • Map charts
      • Category charts
      • XY charts
    • Creating a graph
      • Create a map chart
      • Create a category chart
      • Create an XY chart
      • Custom keys
      • Coloring a map chart
      • Modify the report structure
    • Output charts as tables
  • Working with pivot tables
    • What is a pivot table?
      • Runtime configurability
      • Performance considerations
      • Data types
    • Create a pivot table
    • Organizing pivot table elements
  • Expressions in properties
    • RTL expressions overview
    • Using the expression language
    • Using RTL classes
    • Defining PXML expressions
      • PXML variables
      • PXML functions
      • Including RTL variables
    • Expression examples
      • Check a field for a value
      • Change the display based on a condition
      • Display an image based on a variable
      • Size a column based on data
      • Format a number within a string
  • Debugging your Report Design Document
  • Create and manage report templates
    • Create a report from an existing template
      • Template filters
      • Schema Association page
      • Add Fields page
      • Variables page
    • Create a new report template
      • Report template schema definition file (.rsd)
      • Report template (.4rt) file design features
        • Template field triggers
        • Template fields
      • Customize the appearance of a new report template in the wizard
    • Create a report template from an existing report
    • Modify an existing report template
    • Set the report template directory
    • GenerateReport command options
    • Example 1: Template with placeholders
      • Create the report template files
      • Use the template to create the report
    • Example 2: Template with data groups and repetitions
      • Create the report template files
      • Use the template to create the report
    • Example 3: Template with a dynamic list
      • Create the report template files
      • Use the template to create the report
  • Report schema transformations
    • Options for data operations
    • Create a report schema transformation
    • Duplicate data
  • Report Designer Reference
    • Report Design Elements (The Toolbox)
      • Simple Containers
      • Propagating Containers
        • Mini Pages
        • Break
      • Composed Containers
        • Table
        • Paragraph and Text
      • Drawables
        • Word and Word Wrap Boxes
        • PDF Box
        • Decimal Format Box
        • Date Format Box
        • Page Number
        • Image Box
      • Business Graphs
        • Map Chart
        • Map Chart Item
        • Category Chart
        • Category Chart Item
        • XY Chart
        • XY Chart Item
        • Pivot Table
        • Pivot Table Hierarchy Value
        • Pivot Table Fact
        • Pivot Table Measure
      • References
        • Reference Box
        • Info Node
      • Bar Code Boxes
      • Other Markup
        • HTML Box
        • Rich Text Box
    • Report Element Properties
      • General Properties
        • Alignment (alignment)
        • Anchor X (anchorX)
        • Anchor Y (anchorY)
        • Background Color (bgColor)
        • Baseline Type (baselineType)
        • Bold (fontBold)
        • Class (class)
        • Clip (clip)
        • Color (color)
        • Comment (comment)
        • Default (referenceDefault)
        • Fill (fill)
        • Floating Behavior (floatingBehavior)
        • Format (format)
        • Format (pageNoFormat)
        • hang (hang)
        • Hide Page Footer On Last Page (hidePageFooterOnLastPage)
        • Hide Page Header On Last Page (hidePageHeaderOnLastPage)
        • href (href)
        • id (id)
        • Indent (indent)
        • InfoNode Name (referenceName)
        • Intended Resolution (intendedResolution)
        • Italic (fontItalic)
        • Layout Direction (layoutDirection)
        • Localize Text (localizeText)
        • Location (location)
        • Name (name)
        • Name (fontName)
        • Name (pageName)
        • Offset (pageNoOffset)
        • Page Ranges (pageRanges)
        • Parent Group (suppressionInitializer)
        • Password (password)
        • Rich Text (richText)
        • Scale X (scaleX)
        • Scale Y (scaleY)
        • Section (section)
        • Show On New Page (showFirstRepetitionOnPage)
        • Size (fontSize)
        • Split Oversized Items (splitOversizedItem)
        • Strikethrough (strikethrough)
        • Suppress (suppressRepetitions)
        • Swap X (swapX)
        • Text (text)
        • Text Alignment (textAlignment)
        • Text Expression (textExpression)
        • Text Fidelity (fidelity)
        • Title (title)
        • Transform transparently (transformTransparently)
        • Trim Text (trimText)
        • Type (objectType)
        • Type (richTextType)
        • Underline (underline)
        • Value (value)
        • Visibility Condition (condition)
        • X (x)
        • X-Size (X-Size)
        • X-Size Adjustment (X-Size Adjustment)
        • Y (y)
        • Y-Size (Y-Size)
        • Y-Size Adjustment (Y-Size Adjustment)
      • Properties specific to charts
        • Category Key (categoryKey)
        • Categories Title (categoryTitle)
        • Color (chartColor)
        • Compute aggregates on the innermost dimension (computeAggregatesInnermostDimension)
        • Compute Average (computeAverage)
        • Compute Count (computeCount)
        • Compute Distinct Count (computeDistinctCount)
        • Compute Maximum (computeMaximum)
        • Compute Minimum (computeMinimum)
        • Compute Totals (computeTotal)
        • Display Fact Rows (displayFactRows)
        • Display Recurring Dimension Values (displayRecurringDimensions)
        • Display Selection (displaySelection)
        • Domain Lower Bound (domainLowerBound)
        • Domain Upper Bound (domainUpperBound)
        • Draw As (drawAs)
        • Draw Labels (drawLabels)
        • Draw Legend (drawLegend)
        • Enum Values (enumValues)
        • Hierarchies input order (hierarchiesInputOrder)
        • Key (key)
        • Keys Title (keysTitle)
        • Numeric Column (isNumeric)
        • Output Order (outputOrder)
        • Range Lower Bound (rangeLowerBound)
        • Range Upper Bound (rangeUpperBound)
        • Series Title (seriesTitle)
        • Sort Ascending (sortAscending)
        • Sort By (sortBy)
        • Top N (topN)
        • Values Title (valuesTitle)
        • X (x)
        • xAxisTitle (xAxisTitle)
        • Y (y)
        • yAxisTitle (yAxisTitle)
      • Properties specific to tables
        • Border (border)
        • Border Color (tableBorderColor)
        • Bottom Border (bBorder)
        • Column Span (colspan)
        • Fix Width (fWidth)
        • Horizontal Alignment (hAlign)
        • Horizontal Padding (hPadding)
        • Horizontal Rule (hRule)
        • Left Border (lBorder)
        • Padding (padding)
        • Proportional Width (pWidth)
        • Right Border (rBorder)
        • Rule (rule)
        • Rule Color (ruleColor)
        • Top Border (tBorder)
        • Vertical Alignment (vAlign)
        • Vertical Rule (vRule)
        • Vertical Padding (vPadding)
      • Properties specific to bar codes
        • Check (check)
        • Code Type (codeType)
        • Code Value (codeValue)
        • Code Value Expression (codeValueExpression)
        • Control Characters (controlCharacters)
        • Data Symbols per Line (dataSymbolsPerLine)
        • Encoding (encoding)
        • Error Correction Degree (errorCorrectionDegree)
        • Hide Text (noText)
        • Number Check Digits (noCheckDigits)
        • Number Digits (noDigits)
        • Prefer Rectangular Symbols (preferRectangularSymbols)
        • Raw Code Value (rawCodeValue)
        • Smart Parse (smartParse)
        • Thin To Gap Relation (thinToGapRelation)
        • Thin To Thick Relation (thinToThickRelation)
      • Properties related to margins and borders
        • Margin width properties
          • Width (marginWidth)
          • Top Width (marginTopWidth)
          • Right Width (marginRightWidth)
          • Bottom Width (marginBottomWidth)
          • Left Width (marginLeftWidth)
        • Border width properties
          • Width (borderWidth)
          • Top Width (borderTopWidth)
          • Right Width (borderRightWidth)
          • Bottom Width (borderBottomWidth)
          • Left Width (borderLeftWidth)
        • Border style properties
          • Rounded Corners (roundedCorners)
          • Style (borderStyle)
          • Top Style (borderTopStyle)
          • Right Style (borderRightStyle)
          • Bottom Style (borderBottomStyle)
          • Left Style (borderLeftStyle)
        • Border color properties
          • Color (borderColor)
          • Top Color (borderTopColor)
          • Right Color (borderRightColor)
          • Bottom Color (borderBottomColor)
          • Left Color (borderLeftColor)
        • Padding width properties
          • Width (paddingWidth)
          • Top Width (paddingTopWidth)
          • Right Width (paddingRightWidth)
          • Bottom Width (paddingBottomWidth)
          • Left Width (paddingLeftWidth)
        • PDF cropping width properties
          • Crop Top Width (cropTopWidth)
          • Crop Right Width (cropRightWidth)
          • Crop Bottom Width (cropBottomWidth)
          • Crop Left Width (cropLeftWidth)
      • Properties for Report Metadata
    • Bar Codes
      • Bar Code type listing
      • Bar Code type details
        • codabar-2
        • codabar-18
        • code-11-matrix
        • code-128
        • code-2-5-datalogic
        • code-2-5-IATA
        • code-2-5-industrial
        • code-2-5-interleaved
        • code-2-5-inverted
        • code-2-5-matrix
        • code-BCD-matrix
        • code-32
        • code-39
        • code-39-extended
        • code-93
        • code-93-extended
        • data-matrix
        • ean-8
        • ean-13
        • ean-code-128
        • ean-data-matrix
        • ean-supplemental-2
        • ean-supplemental-5
        • gs1-8
        • gs1-13
        • gs1-code-128
        • gs1-data-matrix
        • gs1-supplemental-2
        • gs1-supplemental-5
        • intelligent-mail
        • OMR
        • pdf-417
        • qr-code
        • upc-a
        • upc-e
        • upc-supplemental-2
        • upc-supplemental-5
    • RTL Class Reference
      • RTL Classes Overview
      • The Boolean Class
      • The Calendar Class
        • rollYear()
        • rollWeekOfYear()
        • rollMonth()
        • rollDayOfMonth()
        • rollHourOfDay()
        • rollMinute()
        • rollSecond()
        • addYear()
        • addWeekOfYear()
        • addMonth()
        • addHourOfDay()
        • addMinute()
        • addSecond()
        • compareTo()
        • fromDate()
        • getActualDayOfMonthMaximum()
        • getActualDayOfMonthMinimum()
        • getActualHourOfDayMaximum()
        • getActualHourOfDayMinimum()
        • getActualMinuteMaximum()
        • getActualMinuteMinimum()
        • getActualMonthMaximum()
        • getActualMonthMinimum()
        • getActualSecondMaximum()
        • getActualSecondMinimum()
        • getActualWeekOfYearMaximum()
        • getActualWeekOfYearMinimum()
        • getActualYearMaximum()
        • getActualYearMinimum()
        • getDayOfMonth()
        • getFirstDayOfWeek()
        • getHourOfDay()
        • getInstance()
        • getMinimalDaysInFirstWeek()
        • getMinute()
        • getMonth()
        • getSecond()
        • getWeekOfYear()
        • getWeeksInWeekYear()
        • getWeekYear()
        • getYear()
        • setDayOfMonth()
        • setFirstDayOfWeek()
        • setHourOfDay()
        • setLocale()
        • setMinimalDaysInFirstWeek()
        • setMinute()
        • setMonth()
        • setSecond()
        • setTimeZone()
        • setWeekOfYear()
        • setYear()
        • toDate()
      • The Color Class
        • fromHSBA()
        • fromRGBA()
        • brighter()
        • darker()
        • getAlpha()
        • getBlue()
        • getBrightness()
        • getGreen()
        • getHue()
        • getRed()
        • getRGBA()
        • getSaturation()
        • toCharSequence()
      • The Date Class
        • format()
        • fromIsoValue()
        • fromString()
        • parseString()
        • today()
        • toString()
      • The Enum Classes
        • The Alignment Class
        • The BaselineType Class
        • The BorderStyles Classes
        • The CategoryChartDrawAs Class
        • The CodeType Class
        • The FloatingBehavior Class
        • The LayoutDirection Class
        • The MapChartDrawAs Class
        • The PageNoFormat Class
        • The Section Class
        • The SortBy Class
        • The TextAlignment Class
        • The TrimText Class
        • The X-SizeAdjustment Class
        • The XYChartDrawAs Class
        • The Y-SizeAdjustment Class
      • The Numeric Class
        • abs()
        • atan2()
        • byteValue()
        • cbrt()
        • ceil()
        • cos()
        • cosh()
        • exp()
        • floor()
        • format()
        • getExponent()
        • intValue()
        • isInfinite()
        • isNaN()
        • isNull()
        • log()
        • log10()
        • max()
        • min()
        • rint()
        • round()
        • signum()
        • sin()
        • sinh()
        • sqrt()
        • tan()
        • tanh()
        • toBoolean()
        • toChar()
        • toColor()
        • toDegrees()
        • toRadians()
        • toString()
        • getPhysicalPageNumber()
        • getTotalNumberOfPhysicalPages()
        • getPageNumber()
        • getTotalNumberOfPages()
      • The Runtime Class
        • getDebugLevel()
        • getEnvironmentVariable()
        • getOutputDeviceName()
        • getPrinterMediaName()
        • getPrinterMediaSizeName()
        • getPrinterMediaTray()
        • getPrinterName()
        • getSVGPaperSource()
        • getSVGPrinterName()
        • inDesigner()
        • producingBrowserOutput()
        • producingExcelOutput()
        • producingHLPXMLOutput()
        • producingHTMLOutput()
        • producingImageOutput()
        • producingOORTFOutput()
        • producingPDFOutput()
        • producingPostscriptOutput()
        • producingPrinterOutput()
        • producingPXMLOutput()
        • producingRTFOutput()
        • producingSVGOutput()
        • producingXLSOutput()
        • producingXLSXOutput()
        • producingForPreview()
        • xlsPagesAreMerged()
      • The String Class
        • charAt()
        • contains()
        • endsWith()
        • equals()
        • equalsIgnoreCase()
        • format()
        • indexOf()
        • isEmpty()
        • isNull()
        • lastIndexOf()
        • length()
        • matches()
        • replace()
        • replaceAll()
        • replaceFirst()
        • startsWith()
        • substring()
        • toLowerCase()
        • toNumeric()
        • toString()
        • toUpperCase()
        • translate()
        • trim()
        • trimCompress()
        • trimLeft()
        • trimRight()
        • urlEncode()
      • The Util Class
        • fileIsReadable()
        • urlIsReadable()
    • Dimensions
      • Unit Names
      • Paper Format Abbreviations
  • The Genero Report Designer framework
    • Show, dock, or move a view
    • Setting Preferences
      • General Preferences
      • User interface preferences
        • Setting the interface theme
        • Toolbar configuration
        • Menus configuration
        • Accelerators (Shortcuts) configuration
      • Report Writer preferences
    • Genero Report Designer Help
  • Upgrading GRD
    • New Features
      • GRD 3.21 new features
      • GRD 3.20 new features
      • GRD 3.10 new features
      • GRD 3.00 new features
      • GRD 2.50 new features
    • Upgrading
      • Update report design documents to the current version
  • Copyrights and Trademarks