Style woes

[wexwarez]

I have a report with several subreports. I am trying to set up one of the subreports so if a certain parameter is true then the entire background of the subreport and all the fields in it are highlighted with a background in yellow.

 

I created a style and set it to default. I then added the conditional parameter and set the conditional style background to the color i wanted. Only some of the fields show the yellow background. So then I individually selected the style for the fields that didn't. This helped. Why do I have to do this?

 

It was odd though I would select the style for one field and then it seemed to automatically spread to the fields around it. Seems really buggy or I just don't understand.

 

So while I can get the textfields to change to yellow backgrounds the actual report and band backgrounds are still white.

 

How do you change the background globally?

 

Also I did experiment and just set the default style to have a yellow background. The effect was very odd. While it made the background of the subreport entirely yellow it also seemed to carry over to pieces of the parent report. The whole report background wasn't yellow but other subreports seemed to take on the style. Seems like a bug.

 

But what really bothers me is why does this effect take place only when there is no condition applied?

 

Anyways could really use some guidance as to how to get an entire subreport to be yellow in background?

 

 

thanks...Ryan

[wexwarez]

This is absolutely driving me crazy. There is no consistency to how this works.

 

It seems like there is no way to set the style for the background of bands, except for setting a complete default style which then effects the entire report. And I am utterly lost as to how the transparent property affects this. In some cases you need it set to see the background while in others it doesn't allow it to show the background.

 

Someone either made a complete oversight by forgetting to set it up so you can set a general background color on a per band basis OR I am missing the obvious.

 

HOW DO YOU DO THIS?????

Or is there a way you can just make an area have a certain background?

thanks for your help

Post edited by: wexwarez, at: 2007/01/30 00:10