Conditionally Change Text Colour

[ian.waterman]

Working only with the Studio I have added a Style using instructions I found on a previous post

1) Right click on styles >> Add >> Style
2) give it a forecolor
3) right click on style >> Add Conditional Style >> give a condition like below;

   $P{GroupField}="text"

For the field you want to apply the style, click on the field and in the property select the style.

In my case Colour is Red, existing field colour is black. Condtion  = $F{CRDR}.equals("Credit")

Condition works as I am using it in another expression to change Text shown

When I look in Source it has created style which I assume is OK

</style>
    <style name="Style1" forecolor="#FC052A" markup="none" fontName="DejaVu Sans" fontSize="11">
        <conditionalStyle>
            <conditionExpression><![CDATA[$F{CRDR}.equals("Credit")]]></conditionExpression>
            <style/>
        </conditionalStyle>
    </style>

When I apply the Style to my text field it appears to disappear from the Designer screen, and when I run report it is blank. If I remove style from text field text returns and when report runs the correct Black text is there.

Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong or is there a step I have missed

Thank you

Ian

[riodavid]

Don't know why. Can you give it a back color as well and see what happens?