Specifications

Highlighting information
316 InfoMaker
In most cases, the appearance and behavior of controls is fixed; you do not
want them to change at runtime. When you make headings bold when
designing them, you want them to be bold at all times.
In the following report, the Salary Plus Benefits column has a Shadow box
border around every data value in the column. To display the border, you set
the border property for the column:
Modifying properties at runtime
In some cases, however, you might want some properties of controls in reports
to be driven by the data, which is not known when you are defining the report
in the painter. For these situations you can define property conditional
expressions, which are expressions that are evaluated at runtime.
You can use these expressions to conditionally and dynamically modify the
appearance and behavior of your report at runtime. The results of the
expressions set the values of properties of controls in the report.