Types of Masks

The Layout Editor's Data Source pane displays column masks or row masks for every decimal column in the data set. The mask columns contain the decimal format data, which you can associate with decimal columns in the report layout.

There are two types of masks:

• Column Masks

  Column masks are created for non-currency columns where the decimal position remains the same for all rows in the grid. Examples of column masks are Line Number and Quantity.

• Row Masks

  Row masks are created for currency columns where the decimal position could be different for each grid row. Examples of row masks are Amount, Balance, and Foreign Amount.

In the Layout Editor, column masks appear in the Columnmasks folder, and row masks appear in the Grid's Rowset folder.