To differentiate appearance settings in your report, you can create comprehensive styles (which are stored in the report's style sheet), and then can be assigned to individual elements. There are two ways to store a report's styles.
- to save them to external files (with REPSS extension), and then load them to a report via its Style Sheet Path property (this is described at Store and Restore Style Sheets);
- to store the styles within the report, so that they can be easily accessed via its Style Sheet property.
Note that if styles contained in a style sheet loaded via the Style Sheet Path property have the same names as styles already contained in a report, the latter ones are overridden.
When both styles and individual appearance settings are assigned to an element, you can control the priority of their differing options, via an element's Style Priority property.
By default, most of the Style Priority's options (Use Background Color, Use Border Color, etc.) are set to Yes. This means that if any style is assigned to a control, its properties will have a higher priority than the appearance properties of this element or its parent. You can assign a higher priority to an element's appearance property, by disabling the corresponding Use* property.
The same principles are applied to the odd-even styles feature, which allows you to alternate the appearance of consecutive data rows in your report. For details on this, refer to Use Odd and Even Styles.
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When conditional formatting is applied to an element, its appearance definition has the highest priority. |
