Row and column templates enable you to select a contiguous set of rows or columns and save them as an object in the repository for reuse in one or more reports.
Working with row and column templates can involve the following tasks:
A row and column template comprises one or more row or column definitions. These row or column definitions may contain the following components:
When you create a row and column template, the following items are discarded:
After you create a row and column template, you can save it to the repository, with the following limitations:
Formulas must refer to rows and columns within the selected rows or columns that comprise the template.
Formulas outside the row and column template cannot refer to selected rows and columns that comprise or are part of a row and column template.
Cell format inheritance must be set before creating the row and column template. You can format cells using the Format Cells dialog box. For more information, see Inheriting Cell Formatting. When inheriting formatting within a row and column template, you must use the Inherit Formatting from option on the Row and Column Template properties sheet, which indicates the options that are available for inheritance. For example, suppression, formatting, and row height or column width. |
Note: | When a report contains two or more templates and one of the templates cannot be retrieved because it is moved, renamed, deleted from the repository, or the data source for the template has changed, the link to the existing template will remains unbroken. No alerts for broken links are given. However, orphan links can be checked by viewing the logs (FRWebApp.log, FRReportServer.log or FRClient.log). |