Autostyles: Report Formatting Styles

Autostyles provide predefined formatting styles, allowing you to standardize formatting among reports. Each autostyle is a collection of all the formatting layers, allowing you to format the different report sections. However, not every layer must be configured to create an autostyle. Default formatting values are supplied by the guiprop.pds file. For more information on defaults, see Formatting Default Values. Each formatting layer contains all the formatting options:

• Font
• Alignment
• Border
• Pattern

HTML cannot display patterns as the background of a cell. Therefore, the patterns do not display in Web reports.

Notice that autostyles do not include number formatting. Numbers are usually formatted at a different level, such as the metric level. Retaining the report-level format allows your selected number format to remain.

Preconfigured autostyles are included in MicroStrategy Developer and MicroStrategy Web, but you can create your own as well. If you do, design at the lowest layer possible, not at the grid unit level. If a formatted grid unit does not appear on a report, that formatting also does not appear on the report.

To share your own autostyles to users, place them in the Autostyles folder under the Public Objects folder. Other MicroStrategy Developer and Web users on the system can apply any autostyle saved in that location.

After an autostyle is placed in the folder, Web users must log out and then log in to refresh the autostyles list.