Finding Design Element

If your report or presentation design contains many elements it may be necessary to find a particular element in the design. To find an element in the design select the Find Design Element command in the Actions menu of the Report Designer toolbar. The Find Element dialog will be displayed. Specify the following options on the dialog:

Elements will be matched against their “name” property.

This option is applicable only to text and tag elements. Elements will be matched against their text content.

Elements will be matched against the names of business objects and attributes used in the elements. Note that an element may refer to an attribute not only if it is a tag element, but also if it represents a hyperlink (hyperlink properties may contain expressions referring to attributes of business objects –see Setting Hyperlink Properties). This option may be especially useful if the business space version has an integrity problem in one of the elements of a report or presentation – see Checking Integrity of Business Space Version. The integrity checker will display which report or presentation has the problem and also the attribute that it could not resolve, but it will not bring you straight to the problem. You can open the report or presentation with the problem and look for the offending element using this option.

This option is analogous to the previous option.

This option is analogous to the “By attributes used in the element” option.

This option is analogous to the “By attributes used in the element” option.

Specify a text to be used in the search. You can also specify whether the search is case sensitive and whether the search should match the text exactly as specified or find elements that contain the specified text.

The elements found by the command will be selected.