Formula

The properties of a formula are:

Property Name Description
General
Description Specifies the description of the formula.

Data type: String
Display Width Specifies the display width of the formula. Enter a numeric value to change the width.

Data type: Float
Expression Displays the whole statement of the formula. This property is read only.
GUI Field Specifies the display format of the column when it is inserted into a report. It is a property provided for future use, at present do not enter any values for this property.

Data type: String
Length Specifies the length of the formula's returned value, in byte.

Data type: Integer
Name Specifies the name of the formula.

Data type: String
Number Base Specifies the number base of the formula.

Data type: Integer
Precision Specifies the precision of the column's value. Specify the largest number of digits that can ever occur in the column. Significant digits will be lost if the value is too small; however, memory is wasted when too large a value is specified.

Data type: Integer
Scale Specifies the number of digits to the right of the decimal point of the formula's returned value.

Data type: Integer
SQL Type Specifies the SQL type of the formula defined in Java. Choose an option from the drop-down list.

Data type: Integer
Text Format
Autofit Specifies whether to adjust the width of the formula according to the contents.

Data type: Boolean
Bold Specifies whether to make the text bold.

Data type: Boolean
Font Face Specifies the font of the text. Choose an option from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration
Font Size Specifies the font size of the text. Enter an integer value to change the size.

Data type: Integer
Format Specifies the display format of the formula's returned value. The format varies with the formula's data type and can be defined manually.

Data type: String
Horizontal Alignment Specifies the horizontal justification of the text in the formula. Choose an option from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration
Italic Specifies whether to make the text italic.

Data type: Boolean
Strikethrough Specifies whether to add a strikethrough line to the text.

Data type: Boolean
Underline Specifies whether to underline the text.

Data type: Boolean
Vertical Alignment Specifies the vertical justification of the text in the formula. Choose an option from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration
Word Wrap Specifies whether to wrap the text to the width.

Data type: Boolean
Padding
Bottom Padding Specifies the space between the text and the bottom border of the formula. Enter a numeric value to change the padding.

Data type: Float
Left Padding Specifies the space between the text and the left border of the formula. Enter a numeric value to change the padding.

Data type: Float
Right Padding Specifies the space between the text and the right border of the formula. Enter a numeric value to change the padding.

Data type: Float
Top Padding Specifies the space between the text and the top border of the formula. Enter a numeric value to change the padding.

Data type: Float
Geometry
Height Specifies the height of the formula, which takes effect when the formula is inserted into a report. Enter a numeric value to change the height. The default is 0 which means a proper height will be specified to the formula by JReport automatically.

Data type: Float
Width Specifies the width of the formula, which takes effect when the formula is inserted into a report. Enter a numeric value to change the width. The default is 0 which means a proper width will be specified to the formula by JReport automatically.

Data type: Float
Color
Background Specifies the background color of the formula. Choose a color from the drop-down list, or enter a hexadecimal RGB value (0xCCAA00).

Data type: String
Foreground Specifies the foreground color of the formula. Choose a color from the drop-down list, or enter a hexadecimal RGB value (0xCCAA00).

Data type: String
Border
Border Color Specifies the color of the border of the formula. Choose a color from the drop-down list, or enter a hexadecimal RGB value (0xCCAA00).

Data type: String
Border Thickness Specifies the width of the border in inches or centimeters. Enter a numeric value to change the thickness.

Data type: Float
Bottom Line Specifies the line style of the bottom border of the formula. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration
Left Line Specifies the line style of the left border of the formula. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration
Right Line Specifies the line style of the right border of the formula. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration
Shadow Specifies whether or not to draw two shadowed borders, beneath and to the right of the formula.

Data type: Boolean
Shadow Color Specifies the color of the border shadow. Choose a color from the drop-down list, or enter a hexadecimal RGB value (0xCCAA00).

Data type: String
Top Line Specifies the line style of the top border of the formula. Choose a style from the drop-down list.

Data type: Enumeration
Pattern
Pattern Color Specifies the color with which to draw a pattern to fill the formula. Choose a color from the drop-down list, or enter a hexadecimal RGB value (0xCCAA00).

Data type: String
Pattern Style Specifies the style of the pattern. Choose an option from the drop-down list.
  • none - No pattern will be applied to the formula.
  • 50% - The formula will be filled in the specified color of 50%-transparency.
  • horizontal - The pattern will be made of horizontal lines of the specified color.
  • vertical - The pattern will be made of vertical lines of the specified color.
  • grid - The pattern will be an overlapping of horizontal and vertical lines of the specified color.
  • diagonal - The pattern will be made of slash lines of the specified color.

Data type: Enumeration

SQL Type

Option Type Option Type
-7 BIT -6 TINYINT
-5 BIGINT -4 LONGVARBINARY
-3 VARBINARY -2 BINARY
-1 LONGVARCHAR 1 CHAR
2 NUMERIC 3 DECIMAL
4 INTEGER 5 SMALLINT
6 FLOAT 7 REAL
8 DOUBLE 12 VARCHAR
16 BOOLEAN 91 DATE
92 TIME 93 TIMESTAMP
2003 ARRAY 2004 BLOB
2005 CLOB