Changing Column Appearance

Column appearance can be changed for headings and for column cells in view grids.

Before you begin

Open the Edit Layout screen for the view to be updated.

About this task

Column appearance takes precedence over row appearance and grid appearance. That is, if you have a background color defined for all three, you will see column colors; if there are no defined column colors, then you will see row colors; and if there are no defined column colors and no defined row colors, you will see grid colors.

Procedure

  1. In the Edit Fields For drop-down list, select the UI group to which the new layout will apply.
  2. In the Fields or Table pane, right-click the field or column whose appearance you want to modify and click Properties.
    The Field Properties dialog box appears.
    The Field properties dialog box open to the General tab. Caption, Description, Mandatory, and Sortable fields are visible.
  3. On the General tab, do one or more of the following:
    1. Type the Caption for the column heading.
      The caption (that is, the column heading) can also be updated in the Fields pane itself.
    2. Type a Description of the column information.
      Columns show data found in specific fields in database tables. The field name is typically used as the default column heading, but the column heading can be edited to reflect your transit agency's terminology usage.
    3. Select whether or not the field is Mandatory.
    4. Select whether the contents of the column can be sorted (that is, are Sortable) by clicking on the column heading.
  4. Optional: On the Header tab, do one or more of the following:
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    Text style Click buttons to bold, italicize, or underline the text.
    Horizontal text alignment Click buttons to align the header to the left, the center, or the right.
    Vertical text alignment Click buttons to align the header to the top, middle, or bottom.
    Borders Click the icons as required to place horizontal and vertical borders around the caption.
    Font Select a font from the list.
    Font size Select a text size from the list.
    Width Specify a column width.

    If column widths are used in both the Header tab and Cell tab, the larger column size will be applied.
    Text Color Select the text color.
    Background Color Select the background color.
    Header and cell properties affect the entire table.
    Header modifications are applied to the Edit Layout screen and the view.
  5. Optional: On the Cell tab, edit settings as needed.
    Header and cell properties affect the entire table.
    Cell modifications are applied to the Edit Layout screen.
  6. Optional: On the Display tab, edit settings as needed.
    Display modifications are applied to the selected column in the view.
  7. Click OK.
  8. Click Save.