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Title: conditional formatting VS Conditional style VS conditional block VS Render varia
Post by: haripali on 10 Aug 2009 02:26:51 AM
conditional formatting VS Conditional style VS conditional block VS Render variable

In Report Studio please give some scenarios that bring out the differences in above.

Its urgent please do reply

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Title: Re: conditional formatting VS Conditional style VS conditional block VS Render varia
Post by: kalyan_y on 11 Aug 2009 03:41:53 AM
1) Conditional formatting and Conditional Style are same. By defining either string/boolean variable, we assign this to the Style Variable under properties section. Used for applying color/size and overflow etc....
2) For Conditional Block, we define a variable as stated in (1) and assign the same to block variable under properties section.
To render an object(table/list/crosstab/repeater/prompt buttons and so on...) we use conditional block and block variable.
3) For rendering pages(report or prompt pages), we define a variable as stated in (1) and assign the same to Render Variable under properties section.
Title: Re: conditional formatting VS Conditional style VS conditional block VS Render varia
Post by: rockytopmark on 12 Aug 2009 12:20:42 PM
Render variable can be set on more than just pages... Graphs, Crosstabs, Lists, etc... can also be conditionally rendered