Setting color palette preferences Setting properties of multiple objects

4-6 Oracle Reports Users Guide to Building Reports ■ Click OK. 10. Choose Format Font, and select the font, style, and size that most closely approximates the character-mode font. For example, Courier, Regular, 12 points. See also Section 4.5.9, Creating an ASCII character-mode report

4.2.6 Setting color palette preferences

To set color palette preferences:

1. Choose Edit Preferences.

2. In the Preferences dialog box, on the General tab page, set the Color Mode as

desired: ■ Editable . Oracle Reports Builder temporarily replaces your systems color palette with the palette of the active report. Each time a new report is made active, its color palette replaces the system palette. A report can have only one color palette. The active report will then be shown accurately, although the appearance of the inactive reports may suffer. You must choose Editable if you want to modify the color palette or import or export a color palette. ■ Read Only - Shared . Default Oracle Reports Builder continues to append each active reports color palette to your systems original palette until there is no room left in the palette for any more colors. That palette becomes the single palette that all open reports share. If you create a report that uses entirely different colors, it may not be shown accurately. ■ Read Only - Private . Each time you make a report active, Oracle Reports Builder appends that reports color palette to your systems original palette until there is no room left in the palette for any more colors. This palette is then used whenever that report is active. The active report is then shown accurately, although the appearance of the inactive reports may suffer.

3. If you change the Color Mode, shut down and restart Oracle Reports Builder to

enable the new mode. See also Section 2.4.5, About changing colors and patterns Section 4.9.6.6, Importing or exporting a color palette Section 4.9.6.5, Modifying the color palette Section 4.9.6.2, Changing colors Topics Oracle CDE1 color palette, Default color palette, and Grayscale color palette in the Reference Color and Pattern Palettes section of the Oracle Reports online Help.

4.2.7 Setting properties of multiple objects

To set the properties of multiple objects: Note: A report can have only one color palette. How To... 4-7 1. In the Object Navigator or any Report Editor view, select the objects whose properties you want to set. The objects can be of different types and can even be in different documents.

2. Choose Tools Property Inspector.

3. In the Property Inspector, click the Union button to see all properties of all objects or leave the tool as the Intersection button to see only the properties the objects have in common. 4. Set the properties as desired. For example, a report includes several fields, each of which displays the date. The Datatype property of each field is DATE, which causes dates to be displayed in the default ORACLE format DD-MON-YY. To use a different date format throughout the application, you need to set the Format Mask property for each field that displays dates. Rather than setting each fields Format Mask property individually, select all of the items, then set the Format Mask property once to change the format mask for each item selected. See also Section 1.10.1.1, About making multiple selections in the Property Inspector

4.2.8 Comparing the properties of one object to another