Understanding the Rich Text Editor in Report Designer

Understanding the Rich Text Editor in Report Designer

The articles in this section of the Knowledge Base involve working with Rich Text for display in your reports. To learn more about the Rich Text editor, and how to access this section within the Report Designer, see An Introduction to the Rich Text Editor in Report Designer. The purpose of this article is to break down the different options within the Rich Text editor.

After inserting a RichText component into your report, you’ll find a special editor when you double-click it. This editor can change the font, load and save the RTF text, color, size, paste expressions, etc.. The RTF text can be modified with this editor without the need for a third-party editor. This editor contains the following tabs:

  1. Hyperlink – This tab allows you to specify the URL source that contains the Rich Text.
  2. File – This tab allows you to load a file that contains the Rich text.
  3. Data Column – This tab allows you to specify the data column that contains the Rich Text.
  4. Text – This tab allows you to specify text. You can edit the text here using a set of special tools.

The image below shows the Rich Text editor with the Text tab open:
Fig. 01 – Rich Text Editor

  1. The Open button opens the dialog to load the saved *.rtf file.
  2. The Save button opens the dialog to save the text as *.rtf.
  3. The Insert button shows the data dictionary tree.
  4. The Undo and Redo buttons.
  5. The Font button calls the window to set up the font.
  6. This field displays the current font. Opening the drop-down list of values provides the ability to change the font type without calling the font settings dialog box.
  7. This field displays the font-size value. Opening the drop-down list of values provides the ability to change the font size without calling the font settings window.
  8. Bold, Italic, Underline buttons.
  9. The Superscript and Subscript buttons.
  10. The Color button calls the menu to change the text color.
  11. Text Alignment: Align Left, Align Center, Align Right, and Justify.
  12. The Bullets button enables bullets in text.

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