Selecting text to format

Chapter 4 Managing a Report

Selecting text to format

Some items include more than one text selection. You can format each text selection independently or altogether using the ctrl or shift key to select several text selections at once from the Available Items pane of the Format dialog box.

Card items

The following text selections are available for card items (lists of properties), which print in table format.

Text selection	Description	Example
Title	Title of the item	Card of the Table
Text Label	Property name on a list of properties	Table Code
Text	Value of a property	EMPLOYEE

CRUD Matrix items

The following text selections are available for CRUD Matrix items, which print in table format.

Text selection	Description	Example
Matrix title	Title of the item	CRUD Matrix
Matrix row and column	Resource and process name	Check item (process name in rows) Stock (resource name in columns)
Matrix text	CRUD value	RU

Model- and object-dependent items

The following text selections are available for model- and object-dependent items in text format.

Text selection	Description	Example
Title	Title of the item	Table Description
Text	Text of the description, annotation, or script	This table describes different employee characteristics

List items

The following text selections are available for List items, which print in table format.

Text selection	Description	Example
Title	Title of the item	List of Indexes
Column Header	Heading of column	Code
Text	Value in the column	PK_EMPLOYEE

Title page

The following text selections are available for the title page, which print in text format.

For more information about the title page, see "Including a title page" section.

Text selection	Description	Example
Title	Title of the report	OOM Report
Optional Fields	Text of the author, date, version or summary	VB, 09.15.99, draft, report with lists only

The following text selections are available for the table of contents, which prints in text format.

Text selection	Description	Example
TOC title	Title of the table of contents	Table of contents
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 etc.	Text of the different hierarchy levels in the table of contents	2 Association information 2.1 Model information 2.1.1 Card of the model OOM etc.

You can select the levels to display from the Show levels to list in the Format dialog box. For an HTML report, you must define the depth level of the table of contents in the HTML Format tab of the Report properties dialog box.

For more information about the HTML Format tab, see the "Managing HTML format" section.

Simultaneous selection

Besides, you can simultaneously select items with different print formats and apply to them the format options corresponding to the type of the item. For example, if you select a card item and a List item, the text selections that you can format for both items appear in the Available Items pane of the Format dialog box: