Styles Explorer

Report styles let you quickly apply custom display settings to your reports without editing the underlying report.

Styles can also help staff members use the same display settings for their reports so that all reports generated by your staff share the same appearance. For information about applying a style to a report, see Apply a Style to a Report.

A number of default styles are available, which may be all you need. However, you can easily create and edit styles to define the specific fonts, colors, borders, and margins which are most appropriate for your target audience. You can then apply your custom styles to reports just as you would the default styles.

Tip: When configuring reports to display on the Browser User Interface, you can use any style you want, but we suggest trying the Web Theme style, which is configured for optimal display on web browsers.

You can edit style options for various components used in reports, such as text fields, column headers, exceptions descriptions, or entire report sections. You can also associate a custom chart style with your report style that will be applied to charts added to reports.

The style options vary depending on the type of component you’re editing. For example, the options for a text component include a Font tab, whereas the options for a non-text component do not, since font settings do not apply. See Overview of Report Sections for descriptions of the various components that can be added to reports.