The Report Header and Report Footer are located at the beginning and end of the report. These bands are best used for report headings as well as report totals and summaries.
In the Property Grid, the properties of these bands are divided into the following groups:
1. Appearance
- Background Colour
Specifies the background colour for the controls contained within the band. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar. - Borders, Border Colour and Border Width
Specify border settings for the controls contained within the band. - Font
Specifies the font settings for the controls contained within the band. Some of these settings are available in the Formatting Toolbar. - Foreground Colour
Specifies the text colour for the controls contained within the band. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar. - Padding
Specifies indent values which are used to render the contents of the controls contained within the bands. - Style Priority
Alllows 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 controls contained within the bands as well as to assign an existing style to them or a newly created one. - Text Alignment
Allows you to change the text alignment of the controls contained within the bands. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar. - Height
Specifies the band's height (measured in report units).
2. Behavior
- Keep Together
Gets or sets a value which specifies whether a band can be split across pages. - Page Break
Gets or sets a value that determines where to make a page break, in respect to the given band. - Scripts
This property contains events which you can handle with the required scripts. - Visible
Specifies whether the band should be visible in print preview.
3. Data
- Tag
This property allows you to add some additional information to the band, for example its ID by which it can then be accessible via scripts.
4. Miscellaneous
- (Name)
Determines a bands name by which it can be accessed in the Report Explorer, Property Grid or via Scripts. - Snap Line Padding
Specifies the padding in report measurement units, which is to be preserved within the band when controls it contains are aligned using Snap Lines. - Sub-Bands
Provides access to the band's collection of sub-bands.
