Formatting Styles (Legacy)

Styles allow you to change the appearance of reports for such things as font family, font size, text alignment, border, padding, and color.

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Report components that can be styled

The following graphic illustrates the components of a model that can be styled. The Report Cell style is the default; all other styles inherit this default.

Illustration 1

Styles are configured using Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) standards. Each CSS property can have several values. The software includes several properties by default but also allows custom properties to be added.

Note: Different browsers (e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome) support some styles and not others, or treat the same styles differently.

Editing CSS Styles

There is a set of default styles that are used in all reports. These styles can be modified under Report and Chart Specifications/Report and Chart Settings/Formatting Styles/Default Styles.

You will also find that you can modify styles by:

Modifying individual reports, report tables, or individual elements of a report
Modifying individual Frameworks, for any included Model Dimensions
Clicking on a component of a displayed report and selecting Styling

Note: Report and Framework styles use the default style for its location in the report (see Illustration 1 above). You have the option of applying another one of the default styles in addition to creating your own custom style, or to create your own custom HTML (see below).

To Edit Styles:

Style parameters are hidden by default. If Styles are not visible, expand the collapsed section, or from the View menu select Style Parameters.
Click the Edit button for Style to review the current style properties and their values
Make any desired adjustments to their values
If you wish to add a new property, select it from the Add CSS property drop down list. The new property will appear along with a list of its possible values.
If you wish to experiment with a custom CSS property, select Custom Property. Two input boxes will appear, one for the property, and the other for its value. Enter the property name and value and save your change.
If you wish to remove a property, select None and save your change.

Custom HTML

Rather than simply styling a part of the report, it is sometimes useful to be able to override it completely with your own custom text, images and styling. You can do this using the Custom HTML Editor. To access it, Click Edit next to style you want to change and select Custom HTML.