HP Intelligent Management Center Standard Software Platform - Manual (Page 62)

If you move the field too far to the left, the Arrow cursor turns into a Stop
cursor, indicating that you cannot drag the field that far. Keep in mind that
you cannot place any objects outside the page margin.
The Design tab should look similar to this:
Understanding fields
Before going any further, take a look at the field you just placed in the Details
section:
• First of all, the object frame indicates that when the report is printed, a
field value will appear where the box is positioned.
• If you haven't selected the Show Field Names check box on the Layout
tab of the Options dialog box, the object frame contains Xs to indicate
that the database field contains a text string. Other data types have
different character representations. For example, a currency data type is
represented by $55,555.56.
• If your report is not showing field names, the number of Xs in the object
frame is the data width, the maximum number of characters in the field
as defined by the database. Whether or not your report shows field names,
the width of the object frame is the field width (the amount of space
allocated to the field for printing). Initially it is set to the width needed to
display the maximum number of characters in the field (using the font
selected for the field). You can change this width by resizing the field.
• The size of the characters or Xs indicates the point size selected for the
characters in the field.
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