Table Appearance Setting

To set up table appearance, the ITabView interface is used.

The example of table appearance setting in regular report with the REPORT_TAB identifier is given. The report contains analytical data area.

table before setting:

Table after setting:

Example

Executing the example requires to add links to the Metabase, Report, Tab assemblies.

Sub TableView;
Var
    mb: IMetabase;
    Report: IPrxReport;
    Table: ITabSheet;
    View: ITabView;
    Filter: ITabAutoFilter;
    RCount: String;
Begin
    // Get current repository
    mb := MetabaseClass.Active;
    // Get regular report
    Report := mb.ItemById("REPORT_TAB").Edit As IPrxReport;
    // Get table
    Table := (Report.ActiveSheet As IPrxTable).TabSheet;
    // Get object which determine appearance of the table
    View := Table.View;
    // Create autofilter on column D
    Filter := View.AutoFilter;
    RCount := (Table.RowsCount - 1).ToString;
    Filter.Range := Table.ParseRange("D0:D" + RCount);
    Filter.Enabled := True;
    // Increase width of the D column
    Table.ColumnPixelWidth(3) := 75;
    // Fix the first row and the first column
    View.FixedColumnsCount := 1;
    View.FixedRowsCount := 1;
    // Change height and width of columns header
    View.ColumnsHeaderHeight := 8;
    View.RowsHeaderWidth := 8;
    // Disable gridline layout
    View.DisplayGrid := False;
    // Save changes
    (Report As IMetabaseObject).Save;
End Sub TableView;

See also:

General Programming Principles Using the Tab Assembly