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Quote PanHR Replybullet Topic: Background Colour in the Report Footer
    Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 4:12am
Hi, I was wondering if there is any way for me to highlight certain information in the Report Footer.

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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 4:16am
Yes. How depends on what you want to highlight and if you are doing it conditionally or constantly.
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Quote PanHR Replybullet Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 8:38am
It's not conditional there are two line in the report footer and I want one of them to be highlighted.

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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 8:40am
you want the whole section (e.g. report footer a) to be 'highlighted'?
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 9:01am
if so, go into the section expert
select the section you want to highlight (e.g. report footer a)
click on the color tab (on the right hand side next to the 'common' tab)
check the 'background color' box as TRUE
select the color you want from the drop down list or use the 'more' option to use a different color.
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Quote PanHR Replybullet Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 9:35am
Thanks for your help but I want to highlight just a part of the report footer. I want to highlight the first line of a sentence.
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 9:39am

is it a text field in crystal or a string field from the db?

you only want to highlight the background of the first "line" or first "sentence"?
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 9:40am
can you post a sample?
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Quote PanHR Replybullet Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 3:22am
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
I want to highlight the line with the a's only.
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Quote DBlank Replybullet Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 4:08am

I will assume this is a string field type from the db and not a text field you inserted into the report.

I think you will have to split the field into two and highlighht the background color of one field only.
you can use left() and mid() functions to split it. exactly how depends on what the consistnet logic is that can be applied to each field to always get the 'a', (maybe a carriage return).
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