Style Tab (Defining EAR and Cross-Publication EAR Reports)

This tab provides tools to format the display of the report.

1. Use the six drop-down menus at the top to define colors for the report grid. Selections appear in the Sample grid. The Restore Default button above the Sample grid undoes selections and returns the six drop-down menus to Default option.
   • Border color: Choose a color for the cell borders.
   • Header color: Choose a color for the fill of the header cells.
   • Header foreground color: Choose a color for the header text.
   • Item color: Choose a color for the fill of row cells.
   • Item foreground color: Choose a color for row text.
   • Alternating item color: Choose a second fill color to display alternating rows of different colors.
2. Use the checkbox settings to define additional appearance options.
   • Fill zero data between dates: This setting dictates how date fields associated with a value of 0 are handled in charts and report grids. Check the box to include. Example: A report on the number of manuscripts submitted by month includes zero submissions for February. If this setting is checked, February appears in the report with zero submissions. If this setting is not checked, February does not appear in the report.
   • Landscape printing: Check the box to use landscape orientation when the report is printed to a PDF.
   • Show page number: Check the box to include page numbers at top of each page when report is printed to a PDF.
   • Show date and time: Check the box to include date and time report was run at the top of each page when report is printed to a PDF.
   • Use pagination in web view: Check the box to include pagination links on the report results page (1 – 100, 101 – 200, etc.) when a user runs the report in the system. Use this setting together with the Items Per Page (In Viewer) setting below.
   • Add bookmark for each visual group: Check the box to include bookmarks for visual groups when the report is printed to a PDF. Bookmarks for each section are generated on the left side of PDF pages.
   • Page break after visual groups: Check the box to insert page breaks after each visual group when the report is printed to a PDF.
   • Minimize grid width: Check the box to control width of report results when a user runs the report in the system. Tip: This is a good choice for a report with gauges. This setting will cause gauges to wrap rather than expand the page width, which would require horizontal scrolling to view results.
3. Visual Group Style: This setting applies only if one or more fields have been designated on the Fields tab to be used for visual grouping. Select a style from the drop-down menu. (Click Preview to check appearance of grouping.)
4. Items Per Page (In Viewer): Enter number of items to display on page when a user runs the report in the system. Use this setting together with the Use pagination in web view setting above.
5. Report order: Use the icons (move up, move down) to arrange the display order of Detail Report, Summary Report, Chart, and Gauge on results page when a user runs the report in the system. This order also applies to the report PDF.
6. Field | Value column pairs: These settings dictate how many column pairs are displayed in results when a user runs the report in the system. Example: Selecting 2 will display two pairs, meaning four columns (two field name columns and two associated value columns).
   1. Use the drop-down menu to select a number from 1 to 4.
   2. Check the box next to one or both options.
      1. Show main report in Field | Value style.
      2. Show summary report in Field | Value style.

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