OpenRPT Product Guide

For this exercise, we will change the wording of the locale column heading. As you can see in the following screenshot, this column heading appears in both the Page Header (Any) and Report Header sections:

Locale column heading selected

A locale is frequently used to define a user's language. And so, for the purpose of this exercise, let’s change the column heading from Locale to Language. To edit the column heading, double-click on the label object which contains the text. The following screen will appear:

Label Properties for column heading

As you can see, we have entered the new wording in the Text field. We make the same change to the locale column heading found in the Report Header. And after saving the changes to the database, we see them both applied to the report definition, as shown below:

Label changed for locale column heading

The techniques used to edit label objects are the same regardless of where a label object is located in the report definition.