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Control Reference

A control is an element that you add to a print template to present a particular piece of information. For example, the Map control presents the map from the user's current session, the Legend control presents the legend, and so on. Controls can be static or dynamic. A static control gets its value when you design the print template. A dynamic control gets its value when the print template runs. For example, Label controls that contain print inputs are dynamic controls.

The Control Reference documents each control offered by Geocortex Printing. A control's documentation may include the following sections:

• Description: A description of what the control does.

• Properties Common to Most Controls: A list of properties that are shared by most controls. See Properties Common to Most Controls below.

• Actions: Group of commonly used properties, and actions for the control. These properties are aggregated at the top of the Properties panel, but also appear in their respective property groups. Changes made to the properties that appear in this panel will be reflected in the property group they belong to.

• Styles: Group of properties that define the styles applied to the control. For more information see Styles.

• Appearance: Group of properties for configuring the appearance of the contents of a control, such as background color or text formatting. See Inherit Settings from the Band or Report for more information on how bands and controls can share Appearance property settings.

• Behavior: These properties enable a control and its contents to resize or reformat at run time.

• Data: Group of properties that allow you to shape print template data.

• Layout: Group of properties that determine the size, position etc of the control in the print template.

• Navigation: Together, these properties allow you to map print template elements' hierarchy in a bookmark list or table of contents.

• Printing: Supports right-to-left writing systems.

• Related Tutorials: Links to any tutorials that document the use of the control.

Controls

Geocortex Printing has the following controls:

• Bar Code: Displays a bar code of a specified type.
• Character Comb: Displays text so that each character is printed in an individual cell.
• Check Box: Displays text along with a box that can display three states: unchecked, checked and indeterminate.
• Cross-Band Box: Draws a box across bands.
• Cross-Band Line: Draws a vertical line across bands.
• Label: Displays static or dynamic text.
• Legend: Includes the map legend in the print output.
• Line: Draws a line in a specified direction, style, width, and color.
• Map Info: Displays information about a map in the print template output.
• Map Picture Box: Includes the map from the user's session in the print template output.
• North Arrow: Displays a north arrow in the print output.
• Overview Map Picture Box: Shows a feature's location within the larger geographic context.
• Page Break: Defines a page delimiter in a print template.
• Page Info: Displays date and time or page numbers on a page.
• Panel: Groups individual print template controls into collections.
• Picture Box: Displays an image populated by a file source or an image populated by a data source.
• Rich Text: Displays text formatted by Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or Rich Text Format (RTF).
• Scale Bar: Displays a scale bar in the print template output.
• Shape: Draws a specified shape.
• Table: Displays information in a tabular format.

Properties Common to Most Controls

Actions

Styles

Appearance

Behavior

Data

Design

Layout

Navigation