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How to create a formatting rule

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Choose the Highlights tab in Property Editor. The Highlights page appears, as shown in Figure 7-11. It is empty if you have not yet specified any formatting rules for the selected element.

Figure 7-11 Highlights page

Figure 7-11  Highlights page
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If the order total is greater than $50,000.00, then set
the font color to blue and the font style to bold.
There are two parts to the rule: If (condition) and Then (format). The New Highlight dialog helps you specify the condition and format parts of the rule by breaking them down to more specific parts.
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If the order total values come directly from the selected element, from the drop-down list, choose Value of this data item.
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If the order total values come from another data element, choose that element’s column binding name from the drop-down list.
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In the second field, specify the second part of the conditional expression by selecting an option from the list. Using our example rule, this part is Greater than.
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In the third field, specify the third part of the conditional expression. Using our example rule, this part is a value of 50000, as shown in Figure 7-12.

Figure 7-12 Elements of the conditional expression

Figure 7-12  Elements of the conditional expression
You have now completed the condition part of the rule, which specifies the following:
If row["OrderTotal"] is greater than 50000
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Specify the format part of the rule, which is “then set the font color to blue and the font style to bold,” by completing the following steps:
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Figure 7-13 Elements of the formatting expression in New Highlight

Figure 7-13  Elements of the formatting expression in New Highlight
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Alternatively, if you created a style named order_data_highlight, for example, that specifies the formats, you can select the style from the list of styles next to Apply Style.
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The rule that you created appears in Highlight List, as shown in Figure 7-14. The rule takes effect the next time you run the report.

Figure 7-14 Highlight List

Figure 7-14  Highlight List
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