Rave Reports Visual Designer

Property Panel

The property panel will allow you to customize the way a component(s) appear or behave. If no component is selected then the property panel will be blank. You select a component on the page layout panel by clicking on it.

There is a special property for the components call "locked". If the "locked" property is true then you can select that component but will not be able to change it's properties. If you have selected a component(s) that are locked then the pips and the property name for those items will be red. The locked property state will show either a True / False indicating the lock status or it will show the parent component name that is controlling its lock state.

When you select a component, it gets colored pips around it. Remember "locked" components always have red pips. The remaining discussion is about component(s) that are NOT locked. If you only have one item selected the pips will be light green in color. If you have multiple items selected the pips will be gray. If it is a mirrored component then the pips will be yellow. You can change the common properties by clicking on the property you wish to change as long as it is not a locked component.

Many of the properties have standard values like colors, True or False or positions. For properties like True or False, you can click on the word to change the value to its opposite. Other properties have associated property editors to set more complicated sets of properties. For example, the Font property has an ellipsis. If you click on the ellipsis, then the Font Editor will appear where you can make your changes. The color property has a down arrow. If you click on the down arrow you will get a list of colors that you can select.

When you selected several different items on a page, the property panel will change to reflect only the common properties. But you could then make one change to a property and it would change for all the selected items. You can change the width of the property panel to your desired size.