The Rich Text control allows you to display formatted text in your report. It can represent static or dynamic text, or both. You can load content to the Rich Text from an external TXT or RTF file (which can also contain images) and then format any part of it. The formatting options include font face, styles and sizes, and colour.
Content from an external TXT or RTF file can be loaded to this control via its Smart Tag.
1. Appearance
- Background Colour
Specifies the background color for the control. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar - Borders, Border Colour and Border Width
Specify border settings for the control. - Font
Specifies the font settings for the control. Some of these settings are available in the Formatting Toolbar. - Foreground Colour
Specifies the text colour for the control. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar - Padding
Specifies indent values which are used to render the contents of the control. - Style Priority
Allows you to define the priority of various style elements (such as background colour, border colour, etc.). - Styles
This property allows you to define odd and even styles for the control, as well as to assign an existing style to the control (or a newly created one). - Location
Specifies the control's location, in report measurement units. - Size
Specifies the control's size, in report measurement units.
2. Behavior
- Anchor Vertically
Specifies the vertical anchoring style of the control, so that after page rendering it stays attached to the top control, bottom control, or both. The property setting is useful for data-bound controls located between upper and lower controls, which are allowed to resize depending on their contents. Note that if the Anchor Vertically property is set to Bottom or Both, the Can Grow and Can Shrink properties (see below) values are ignored, and don't participate in calculating a final height value of this control. - Anchor Horizontally
Specifies the horizontal anchoring type of a report control. - Can Grow
When this property is set to Yes, the control's height can be automatically increased, if required, to display the text. If there are other controls below the current control, they will be pushed down to prevent them from overlapping. Note that if a control overlaps the growing Rich Text by even one pixel, it will not be pushed down by the growing Rich Text. - Can Shrink
When this property is set to Yes, and the text does not completely fill a Rich Text, then the controls height will be decreased to the height of its text. If there are other controls below the current one, they will be moved up to fill the gap. Note that if a control overlaps the shrinking Rich Text by even one pixel, it will not be pushed up by the shrinking Rich Text. - Keep Together
Specifies whether the contents of the control can be horizontally split across pages. In other words, if the control occupies more space than remains on the page, this property specifies whether this control should be split between the current page and the next, or whether it will be printed entirely on the next page. This property is in effect only when the control's content does not fit on the current page. If it does not fit on the next page either, then the control will be split despite this property's value. - Process Duplicates Mode
Determines the controls behavior when its data source contains consecutive repeating records. They can be processed as is (when the property is set to Leave), suppressed except for the first entry(Suppress) and suppressed with the blank space printed instead of the repeated records (Suppress and Shrink). - Process Duplicates Target
Specifies whether to process duplicate values of the XRControl.Text, or XRControl.Tag property. - Process Null Values
Determines whether to process Null (blank) values if they appear in the control's data source. They can be processed as is (when the property is set to Leave), suppressed (Suppress) and suppressed with the blank space printed instead of the blank records (Suppress and Shrink). - Scripts
This property contains events, which you can handle with the required scripts. - Visible
Specifies whether the control should be visible in print preview.
3. Data
- Null Value Text
Specifies the text shown by the XRRichTextBase when the value of its bound data field is null. - Tag
This property allows you to add some additional information to the control; for example its id, by which it can then be accessible via scripts. If the current report has a data source , the Tag property can be bound to a data field obtained from the data source. To do this, expand the (Data Bindings) property, and in the Tag.Binding drop-down selector, select the required data field.
4. Miscellaneous
- (Name)
Determines a control's name, by which it can be accessed in the Report Explorer, Property Grid or via scripts. - Snap Line Margin
Specifies the margin (in report measurement units), which is to be preserved around the control when it is aligned using Snap Lines, or when other controls are aligned next to it. - Bookmark and Parent Bookmark
Properties are intended for the creation of a hierarchical structure within a report, called a document map. If the current report has a data source, the Bookmark property can be bound to a data field obtained from the data source. To do this, expand the (Data Bindings) property and in the Bookmark.Binding drop-down selector, select the required data field. - Navigation URL and Navigation Target
Use the Navigation URL property to specify a URL for web browser navigation when a user clicks the control. The web browser displays a page in a window or a frame as specified by the Navigation Target property. Note that a URL should have an appropriate prefix (e.g. "http://"). You can create cross-references within the report by assigning the name of the target control to the Navigation URL property, and setting the Navigation Target property to "_self". If the current report has a data source, the Navigation URL property can be bound to a data field obtained from the data source. To do this, expand the (Data Bindings) property, and in the Navigation URL.Binding drop-down selector, select the required data field.
