Select Colors and Lines for Sort Bands
Many Vision reports provide options for sorting and grouping data. For those reports, you control the colors used to represent sort bands and the lines separating sort groups. These features make the reports easier to review.
The line you select for a sort group displays above the header for the group on the report. When the next group is displayed, there is a line after the subtotal for the group immediately preceding it. All data for a single group, from header through subtotal, display between lines of the same type. The last sort group does not have a line after the subtotal.
If you select the Dot Line option in Line Separator, dotted lines display as lines of short dashes when you preview the report. However, when you print the report, they display as dotted lines.
To specify the colors and lines for a sort band, complete the following steps:
- Click the Sorting/Grouping tab in the Options dialog box.
- Select the criteria for sorting data on the report.
- Click the Color column for a sort level.
- Select the color that you want for that sort level from the drop-down list.
- Click in the Line Separator column for the sort level and select the type of line to display between sort groups.
- After you set all report options, click Apply.