Row highlighting - variable substitution?

Question

Hi
Report templates are great except that the Row Highlighting options take literal values.
Is there (at 3.0.1) any way to vary the background color for current row dependent on a CSS style or other variable?
Is there (please...) any intention to support CSS styles or a substitution variable (or application item reference) in these settings in a future release?
Thanks
John

Answer 1

Bump again. Variable ROW-level formatting would be REALLY nice. And not just the {span] tag, but include row-level changes for both cell- and text-based attributes such as cell borders, cell background colors, font size, font weight, font color, etc. Would be best if one could create a pseudocolumn in the SQL and have the row use the specified CSS value, ie
This SQL query
  select CASE(dept_id)
        when 1 then 'mktg'
        when 2 then 'sales'
        when 3 then 'admin'
    END CASE as CSS,
   emp_id, emp_nm, dept_id
    from EMP;This could be paired with a stylesheet in the page header that looked something like:
<style type="text/css">
tr.sales {text-align: center, font-weight: bold; color: #FF0000; border: 1px solid black;}
tr.mktg {text-align: right, font-weight: bold; color: #32CD32}
tr.admin {text-align: right, font-weight: bold; color: #00FF00; border:1px solid green;}
</style>Then when rendering the page, it would apply the row-level css to the {tr} tag when building the table.
What say you?
Edited by: blarman74 on Apr 30, 2010 12:25 PM