Property

Function

Appearance

Background colour

Specifies the background colour for the controls contained within the band.

Borders, Border colour and Border Width

Specify border settings for the controls contained within the band.

Font

Specifies the font settings for the controls contained within the band.

Foreground colour

Specifies the text colour for the controls contained within the band.

Formatting Rules

Invokes the Formatting Rules Editor, allowing you to choose which rules should be applied to the band during report generation, and define the precedence of the applied rules. To learn more on this, refer to Conditionally Change a Control's Appearance.

Padding

Specifies indent values which are used to render the contents of the controls contained within the band.

Text Alignment

Allows you to change the text alignment of the controls contained within the band.

Behavior

Level

Specifies the order of several Detail Report Band objects in a report. It allows the reordering of different Detail Report Bands at the same level of master-detail relationships. The lower the level number, the closer the band is to the Detail band.

Page Break

Use this property if the current report design requires that the band's section should be separated from previous sections or follow-ups. Specify the Before the Band or After the Band values to insert a page break before or after the current band. In many cases, this property may be used instead of the Page Break control.

Print when Data Source is Empty

Specifies whether the band should be printed if its data source is empty.

Scripts

This property contains events which you can handle with the required scripts. For more information on scripting, refer to Handle Events via Scripts.

Visible

Specifies whether the band should be visible in print preview.

Data

Data Adapter

Determines a Detail Report Band's data adapter that provides the detail data for the report. To learn more, refer to Master Detail Report.

Data Member

Determines a name of the data relationship established within the bound data source. To learn more, refer to Master Detail Report.

Data Source

Determines the data source that provides the detail data for the report. If this property isn't defined, the detail report gets data from the master report's data source. To learn more, refer to Master Detail Report.

Filter String

Allows you to invoke the Filter String Editor, which is intended to easily define a filtering condition for a detail report's data. For more information, refer to Change or Apply Data Filtering to a Report.

Tag

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

XML Data Path

Allows you to define a path to the data contained in an XML file. The data contained in the file will then be used as the Detail Report Band's data source. In this case, the Data Member property will specify the bound list in the XML data source.

Note that a detail report uses the XML Data Path property value only when the Data Source property is set to None. The XML Data Path property has a lower priority than the Data Source property.

Design

Name

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

Detail Print Count

Specifies how many times the Detail band should be printed when a data source is defined for the sub-report, and it is not empty.

Detail Print Count when Data Source is Empty

Specifies how many times the Detail band should be printed when no data source is defined for the sub-report.

Structure

Bands

Allows you to invoke the Report Editor intended to manage and customise the report's bands.