| With ElegantJ Report Writer, have a variety of data controls
to choose from. Each control comes with a set of
properties that allow you
to set the control to suit
your needs at design time as
well as at run time. The
most common data controls
are -
Label
Data Column
Date Field
Formula
Multi-line Column
Multi-line Label
Page Number
Summary control (sum, average, minimum,
maximum and count)
Web link control
The properties
you can set for each data
control are -
Background colour
Border colour and thickness
Font properties like
font type, size and style
Character spacing
Horizontal alignment
of values (Leading, Trailing,
Left align, Right align and
Center)
Background of control
(you can make it transparent
or opaque)
Layers (place it as layered
to get rid of restrictions
of width of column or placement,
etc)
Some control-specific properties -
for data fields
Specify column to be
associated
Set display values
In case of data
containing date and time,
you can set –
Display as Date, Time
or Date Time
Date format to suit
your need
Characters to be placed
between Date and Time,
in case you choose
Date Time format
For Multi-line
Column Field -
Set line spacing between two lines
Enable word or character wrapping
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