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Shape

The Shape control allows you to embed simple graphic objects into your report. You can choose one of multiple predefined shapes (e.g. rectangles, ellipses, arrows, polygons, crosses and brackets of various kinds).

In the Property Grid , the Shape's properties are divided into the following groups.

• Background Color
  

  Specifies the background color for the control. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar  ().

• Borders, Border Color and Border Width
  

  Specify border settings for the control.

• Fill Color
  

  Specifies the color to fill the contour of a Shape, if applicable. It is transparent by default.

• Foreground Color
  

  Determines the color of a Shape's contour. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar ().

• Formatting Rules

  Invokes the Formatting Rules Editor allowing you to choose which rules should be applied to the control during report generation, and define the precedence of the applied rules. 

• Line Width
  

  Here you can set the width of a line used to draw the Shape, expressed in the measure units defined by the reports's Measure Units property. 

• Padding
  

  Specifies indent values which are used to render the contents of the control.

• Style Priority
  

  Allows you to define the priority of various style elements (such as background color, border color, etc.).

• Styles
  

  This property allows you to define odd and even styles for the control, as well as to assign an existing style to the control (or a newly created one).
  

• Anchor Vertically
  

  Specifies the vertical anchoring style of the control, so that after page rendering it stays attached to the top control, bottom control, or both.

• Angle
  

  The value in degrees specifies the rotation angle of a Shape. It indicates counterclockwise rotation.

  You can hold CTRL while pressing the left mouse button to rotate a Shape within the control's borders.

  
• Scripts
  

  This property contains events, which you can handle with the required scripts. 

• Shape
  

  Determines which of the various built-in shapes to use within the control.

  A certain shape has its own unique set of properties. The following list is intended to give a brief overview of these special properties specific to a certain shape.

• Stretch
  

  If the Shape is rotated to some degree (that is, its Angle property is not zero), you may turn on the Stretch property. The Shape image will be stretched to cover maximum space within the control's borders.

• Visible
  

  Specifies a value indicating whether the current control should be printed (when set to Yes) or hidden (No) on report generation.

• (Data Bindings)
  

  If the current report is bound to data, this property allows you to bind some of the control's properties (Bookmark, Navigation URL and Tag) to a data field obtained from the report's data source, and to apply a format string to it. For more information on this, refer to Display Values from a Database (Bind Report Elements to Data).
  

• Tag
  

  This property allows you to add some additional information to the control; for example its id, by which it can then be accessible via scripts.
  
  
  If the current report has a data source, the Tag property can be bound to a data field obtained from the data source. To do this, expand the (Data Bindings) property and in the Tag.Binding drop-down selector, select the required data field.
  

• (Name)
  

  Determines a control's name, by which it can be accessed in the Report Explorer, Property Grid or via scripts.

• Location
  

  Specifies the control's location, in report measurement units.
  

• Size
  

  Specifies the control's size, in report measurement units.

• Snap Line Margin
  

  Specifies the margin (in report measurement units), which is to be preserved around the control when it is aligned using Snap Lines, or when other controls are aligned next to it.
  

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