Adding Check Boxes for Displaying Boolean Values in the Report Designer

Adding Check Boxes for Displaying Boolean Values in the Report Designer

The articles in this section of the Knowledge Base involve working with Lists for display in your reports. To learn more about Lists and how to access the Report Designer, see Creating Lists in Report Designer. This article provides information for inserting a Check Box into your Report.

Insert a Check Box in the Report Template

A Check Box is used in Reports for displaying Boolean values. To add a Check Box to the Report Template, select Components > Drag the Check Box component into the template.


Fig. 01 – Check Box Component

Various styles can be applied to a Check Box. To access the various styles available for the Check Boxes, select the drop down for the Check Style for True property of the Check Box Component. A style for when the Boolean value evaluates as false can also be applied using the Check Style for False property. Figure 02 presents the available styles of check boxes:


Fig. 02 – Available Check Boxes

The types of Boolean values can be changed using the Values property of the Check Box Component. The options are true/false, yes/no, on/off, and 1/0.


Fig. 03 – Values Property

Insert the Check Box Component into the Data Band as you normally would a Text Component.


Fig. 04 – Check Box Component Inserted in the Data Band

Select the Check Box Component to open the properties and set them as you desire. Enter the Boolean Data Column from your Data Source in the Checked property of the Check Box Component, or by opening the Text Editor. The Text Editor option allows you to pull from the Data Dictionary directly. 

For this example, “{Products.IsBuyOut}” is used as the Boolean Data Column.

Boolean Data Columns are denoted with a check mark  in the Data Dictionary. 


Fig. 05 – Checked Property


Fig. 06 – Text Editor Displaying the Added Data Column

Once you have set up the properties of the Check Box component to your liking, render the Report. Your results should look something like Figure 07.


Fig. 07 – Rendered Report with Boolean Values Denoted with the Check Box Component

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