Report Editor - Formatting

Reports Editor allows you to change the output format of data. This can be done by changing the format property in the property inspector of a control that represents specific data type. The format property includes two parameters:

• kind – the list of formatting types.
• pattern – the template of a custom format.

You can change format for:

• Field control, if source field contains specific data that can be formatted;
• Text Field, if control returns data that can be formatted.

To become familiar with rules and principles of formatting data of different kind - read following sections:

• Formatting Numbers – describes, how you can format numeric data.
• Formatting Dates and Times – describes, how you can format date and time.