### Banded Object Properties dialog

This dialog helps you to edit the properties of a banded object. It contains the following tabs:

- General tab
- Border tab
- Others tab

OK

Applies the settings and closes this dialog.

Cancel

Cancels the settings and closes this dialog.

Help

Displays the help document about this feature.

#### General tab

This tab shows some general information of the banded object. See the tab.

Name

Specifies the display name of the banded object, which will be shown on the shortcut menu of the banded object.

Position

Displays the position mode of the banded object. If the banded object is directly contained in the report body, a tabular cell, or a text box, its position mode can be modified.

- Absolute: The banded object's position will be decided by its X and Y property values.
- Static: The banded object will be positioned at the default location in its container. If selected, the X, Y and other position-related properties will be hidden or disabled.

X

Specifies the X coordinate of the banded object, in inches.

Y

Specifies the Y coordinate of the banded object, in inches.

Width

Specifies the width of the banded object, in inches.

Height

Specifies the height of the banded object, in inches.

Background

Specifies the background color of the banded object.

To change the color, click the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog and then specify a new color, or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB. If you want to make the background transparent, input Transparent in the text box.

#### Border tab

This tab shows information about borders of the banded object. See the tab.

Color

Specifies the border color. To change the color, click the color indicator to access the Select Color dialog and then specify a new color, or input a color string in the format #RRGGBB.

Width

Specifies the border width in inches.

Top Line

Specifies the style of the top border line.

Bottom Line

Specifies the style of the bottom border line.

Left Line

Specifies the style of the left border line.

Right Line

Specifies the style of the right border line.

#### Others tab

You can use this tab to view and configure some miscellaneous settings. See the tab.

TOC Anchor

Specifies whether or not to add the node that represents the banded object to the TOC tree that is displayed in the TOC Browser.

Suppress When No Records

If true and no records are returned to the banded object, the banded object will not be displayed.

Export to XLS

If true, the banded object will be exported when you save the report result as an XLS file (make sure to check Data Format in the Export dialog).

Export to CSV

If true, the banded object will be exported when you save the report result as a TXT file with Delimited Format selected.