5.9.3  Section Properties

Most Section properties are associated with the individual bands in the Section. To set the properties for a Section's bands, right-click in the left margin of the Section, and select 'Properties' from the context menu.

 

This opens the 'Section Properties' dialog box. In the 'Section Properties' dialog box, the various section bands are listed in a tree structure. For a simple section, there are three bands under the root node: 'Header', 'Detail', and 'Footer'.

 

Click on a band in the tree to view the corresponding in band properties. The following properties are available:

Hide Band makes the specified band invisible. When a band is hidden, it is not used when rendering a page. However, all elements in the band are still intact, and are restored when the band is made visible again.

New Page Before forces the corresponding band to always be displayed at the top of a new page, thus changing the pagination of the flow. The pagination is enforced so that either the band is the first band of a section, or in the middle of a section.

New Page After forces a new page following the displayed band. These attributes are ignored for the top-level header band because they would cause an infinite loop in the layout.

Force New Page forces a page break rather than an area break when 'New Page Before' or 'New Page After' is in effect. This operation is only available for flow layout. (See Flow Report Layout for more information about flow reports.)

Sheet Break causes a new sheet to be created in Excel exports whenever a new page is created by the 'New Page Before' or 'New Page After' properties.

Shrink to Fit collapses any space used by hidden elements in a band so there is no white space in the middle of a band if elements are hidden (through script or other means).

Breakable causes the specified band to break across pages when it cannot be displayed in its entirety on the current page. If this property is disabled, the entirely of the band is pushed to the following page.

Print at bottom causes the section band to be printed at the bottom of the page. If the band repeats, such as for the detail rows of the content band, each repeated band is placed on a separate page.

Suppress Blank hides the section band when it contains no content. If some of the elements in the band are bound to data, the band is considered to have no content when all of the bound elements for a particular row are blank. If binding is not defined for any of the elements in the band, the band is considered to have no content only if all the elements in the band are invisible.

Underlay following bands causes fields in one band to be printed on the same line as fields in the following band. As a result, multiple rows are written over one another. An example application is when the first band contains a picture of an item and the second band contains the item description. These can be displayed on a single line by setting 'Underlay following bands'.

Keep Together, for a group header, causes the report to attempt to keep all of the group's bands on the same page. If this is not possible, the contents are moved to the top of the next page. This setting is not compatible with 'Repeat Header'. (See note below.)

Widow/orphan control, for any header band or for the innermost footer band, prevents a single header band from being printed at the bottom of a page or a single footer band from being printed at the top of a page.

Background Color sets the fill for a section band.

Borders adds borders to any of the four sides of the specified band.

Height sets the height of the specified section band. This can also be manipulated by manually dragging the section band borders.

Note: When 'Repeat Header' is set for a section or group header, this disables the 'Keep Together' option for all subordinate groups.

Repeat Header displays the section or group header on each page. This setting is not compatible with 'Keep Together'.

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