Element | Description | Can contain other elements | Can contain content values and expressions |
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Use to group a section of elements. Adds a carriage return around its child elements in the output. |
Yes |
No |
Use to group a section of elements. Cannot be styled and does not affect the formatting of the output. When
used inside other elements, the child elements available to use within
the container might be limited. For example:
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Yes |
No |
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The content renders with the same, specified formatting. |
No |
Yes |
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A block of text that can have unique formatting on individual words. Use bold, italic, underline, strikeout, or color formatting on a selection of words within the element. The text is static. |
No |
Yes |
Creates a hyperlink in the output. The hyperlink can point to a location inside the document or to an external location. |
No |
Yes |
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Displays a .gif, .png, .jpg, emf, or wmf image in the output. The report designer can specify the image path in the template or the report generator can specify the path at run time. |
No |
Yes |
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Creates a table in the output. A table can contain rows or container elements. |
Yes |
No |
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Creates a row in the current table. |
Yes |
No |
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Creates a cell in the current row of the current table. |
Yes |
No |
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Creates a bulleted or numeric list in the output. |
Yes |
No |
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Creates a list item in the current list in the output. |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
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Includes the specified file in the output as an INCLUDETEXT field.
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No |
Yes |
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Defines a bookmark in the document. The name of the generated bookmark is the content for the bookmark. When generating the documents, Rational Publishing Engine generates a unique name for each bookmark. The name is based on the name provided at design time and a unique identifier generated at run time. |
No |
Yes |
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Adds a page break to the output. |
No |
No |
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Adds a section break to the output. |
No |
No |
Adds a table of contents to the output. |
No |
No |
Cell properties | Notes |
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Border width | You must specify a value for the border width to create a border in the output. |
Cell alignment | This property specifies the position of the text within the cell. |
Cell width | You can specify cell widths in pixels, points, or percents. |
Figure caption properties | Notes |
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Border width | You must specify a value for the border width to create a border in the output. |
Field code | Do not use for this output format. |
Image properties | Notes |
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Border width | You must specify a value for the border width to create a border in the output. |
Content | Supported image formats:
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List-item properties | Notes |
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Border width | You must specify a value for the border width to create a border in the output. |
Page number properties | Notes |
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Border width | You must specify a value for the border width to create a border in the output. |
Paragraph properties | Notes |
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Border width | You must specify a value for the border width to create a border in the output. |
Paragraph alignment | Space the text across the page with a
certain alignment. Left, right, and center alignment, creates uneven paragraph edges, fitting as many words in a paragraph as possible. Justify creates even paragraph edges by inserting additional space between words on all lines except the last line. Distributed is similar to justify, except that space is also inserted between words in the last line of the paragraph. |
Widow/orphan control | Do not use for this output format. |
Row properties | Notes |
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Row break across pages | Do not use for this output format. |
Table properties | Notes |
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Autofit to contents | Resizes the table to fit the content each cell contains. When you use this property, also set the Resize to fit contents property to true. |
Border width | You must specify a value for the border width to create a border in the output. |
Cell spacing | Do not use for this output format. |
Fixed cell width in column | Specify a value in pixels to ensure that all of the cells in a column are the same width. |
Resize to fit contents | When set to true, lines
do not break unless a space is present. When you do not have space,
lines do not break and the column width is increased to the width
of the text. If autofit to contents is set,
you must set resize to fit contents to true. When set to false, the column width is fixed and the lines break regardless of the spaces used or the length of the text. Also, the table auto fit property is ignored. |
Table auto fit | When set to true, the table is resized to fit
the width of the page. When resize to fit contents is
also set to true, cell widths are ignored and the table is resized
to match the content. You cannot enter fixed column width as a value. Use the fixed cell width property instead. |
Table caption properties | Notes |
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Border width | You must specify a value for the border width to create a border in the output. |
Field code | Do not use for this output format. |
Text properties | Notes |
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Border width | You must specify a value for the border width to create a border in the output. |
Total pages number properties | Notes |
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Border width | You must specify a value for the border width to create a border in the output. |
Lists inherit a designated set of formatting properties that interfere with certain paragraph properties. For example, paragraph properties like background color and borders are affected when the paragraph contains a list. Place list elements after paragraph elements in your template to avoid these issues.