Inserting a web control
Web controls can be inserted in the report areas listed in Component placement.
To insert a web control into a report, take one of the following ways:
- Drag the corresponding button from the Toolbox panel to the destination.
- On the menu bar, click Insert > Web Controls and select the corresponding command from the submenu, then click the mouse button in the desired location in the report to insert the web control.
- On the Insert toolbar, click the down arrow on the Insert Control Objects button
and select the required web control from the drop-down list, then click the mouse button in the desired location in the report to insert the web control there.
After a web control has been inserted, you can customize its appearance and behavior by setting properties in the Report Inspector, which can be saved as a CSS style for future use (for details, see Creating a CSS style). You can also bind a link to a web control in the same way as you do to a label (for details, see Binding a link to a label).
Notes:
- For usage of the web control Expand/Collapse Group, refer to Managing the data of a banded object.
- The display type of a web control can also be changed after it has been created. Web controls other than list and drop-down list can be converted to each other, and can be displayed as a general type. You may notice that these web controls have a common Class Type property value "Label" in the Report Inspector, and this signifies that these web controls are labels in nature.
- List and drop-down list can be converted to each other, while cannot be displayed as any other type.
- DBFields, parameters, formulas, summaries, special fields, and images can also be displayed as a web control type. From this view, these objects can be considered as web controls too.