Formatting Textual Report Items

The Format dialog allows you to specify formatting for the selected report items.

You can access this dialog in any of the following ways:


Available Items

Some report items contain more than one text element. You can format each separately or use the Ctrl or Shift keys to select several at once:

Report Item

Text Selections

Card items

The following selections are available for card items (lists of properties), which are output in table format:

  • Title - Title of the item, eg "Card of the Table"

  • Label - Property name on a list of properties, eg "Table Code"

  • Text – Value of a property, eg "EMPLOYEE"

CRUD Matrix items

The following selections are available for CRUD Matrix items, which are output in table format:

  • Matrix title – Title of the item, eg "CRUD Matrix "

  • Matrix row and column – Resource and process name, eg " Check item (process name in rows)" and " Stock (resource name in columns)"

  • Matrix text – CRUD value, eg " RU "

Model- and object-dependent items

The following selections are available for model- and object-dependent items, which are output in text format:

  • Title – Title of the item, eg " Table Description "

  • Text – Text of the description, annotation, or script, eg "This table describes different employee characteristics "

List items

The following selections are available for list items, which are output in table format:

  • Title – Title of the item, eg " List of Indexes "

  • Column Header – Heading of column, eg " Code "

  • Text – Value in the column, eg " PK_EMPLOYEE "

Title page

The following selections are available for the title page (see Report Properties), which is output in text format:

  • Title – Title of the report, eg "OOM Report"

  • Optional Fields – Text of the author, date, version or summary, eg " VB, 09.15.99, draft, report with lists only "

Table of contents

The following selections are available for the table of contents, which is output in text format:

  • TOC title – Title of the table of contents, eg " Table of contents "

  • Level x– Text of the different hierarchy levels in the table of contents, eg "2.1 Model information "

Note: Select the levels to display from the Show levels list beneath the Available items pane of the Format dialog . To define the levels to be shown in the TOC of an HTML report, see Report Properties.

Font Tab

The Format dialog Font tab allows you to specify a font, style, size, and effects for the text elements that you select in the left-hand Available items list.

Paragraph Tab

The Format dialog Paragraph tab allows you to specify indentation, spacing, and alignment for the text elements that you select in the left-hand Available items list.

Border Tab

The Format dialog Border tab allows you to specify elements of a frame around the text elements that you select in the left-hand Available items list. The following border formatting is available:

Option

Description

Left / Right / Top / Bottom

Inserts a line to the left, right, top, or bottom of all the occurrences of the selected text elements.

Box

[card and list items only] Inserts a rectangle around all the occurrences of the selected text elements.

For card items, inserts a rectangle that groups all the occurrences of Text Label (property names) including Text (corresponding property values).

For list items, inserts a rectangle that groups all the occurrences of Column Header (heading of column, example Code), and also a rectangle that groups all the occurrences of Text (value in the column), if you have previously highlighted each of these text selections in the Available Items pane.

Width

Specifies the line width for the Left, Right, Top and Bottom frame options

Box width

Specifies the line width of the box frame

From text

Specifies the amount of space from text to top, bottom, left, and right border

Tab Tab

The Format dialog Tab tab allows you to specify tab positions and alignment for the text elements that you select in the left-hand Available items list, which is particularly useful for the layout of headers and footers (see Modifying Report Section Headers and Footers).

The following tab formatting is available:

Option

Description

Tab stop position

Specifies the measurement for a tab stop

Default tab stops

Specifies the default spacing between tab stops

Alignment

Specifies how text is to be aligned at the tab stop. To change the alignment for an existing tab stop, click it in the Tab Stop Position box, and then click the new alignment option