Concat

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A Concat is an hybrid field that can contain static and dynamic text, unlike Labels or Dynamic fields that can have only one type. You can add and arrange many Dynamic Fields and Labels in one Concat object.

Properties

Through the window that opens the option presents two tabs: general and content.

Tab - General

The available options are:

Common

• Name - Name of the Control. This Name will be used to identify the Control throughout the Project. The name of the Control can only contain letters, digits or underscore (_).

• Description - Description of the Control. This Description is for your information only, Kalipso does nothing with it.

Layout

• X - X position of the Control

• Y - Y position of the Control.

• Width - Width of the Control.

• Height - Height of the Control.

Condition

• Condition - Condition to be verified before displaying the control.

When clicked, a list of conditions already created is accessed. However, you can add more by clicking on the icon on the right. Then a new window appears:

In the table are the conditions already created and on the right side new conditions can be added, edited or deleted.

Style

Text

• Font - Font of the displayed Text.

• Size - Font size of the displayed Text.

• Font Color - Font color of the displayed Text.

• Text Position - Position of the Text inside the Control. It can be left, center or right.

• Properties - Font properties of the displayed Text. As bold, italic, underline and cut.

Border

• Border - To set or remove the frame around the Control.

Tab - Content

After the initial settings in the general tab, you must access the content tab to indicate the data source for the field. Thus:

The table shows, by type and value, the associated content created. Like this:

• Type - The type of field.

• Value - A static Text, Dynamic field or Print Nbr. Dsc.

On the right side are icons that allow you to add, edit or delete content. As the options for the adding process are the same as for editing, it is presented on a single screen.

When you click to add a new value, the window presents three options: Static, Dynamic or Print Nbr. Dsc.

Option: Static

• Text - Insert the text for the fiedl

Option: Dynamic

• Load Control With - Area to choose the source of information to fill the field. The hypotheses are ahead and only one can be selected for each dynamic field. The options are:

  • Query

  • Variable

  • System Date

  • System Time

  • Page Number

  • Page Total

Depending on the option chosen in Load Control With, the options below change to match the type of data to be displayed. The example shows the specific options for queries.

Option: Print Nbr. Dsc.

This option is used when printing multiple copies of the report. The index is placed automatically (defines the order) and the value is the name given to the copy. For example: original, copy, triplicate, etc.

• Index - Automatically generated according to the number of values entered.

• Value - Value given to each copy for the report.