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Bug 353840

Summary:	To check the Visibility Expression
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	shino.kanno
Component:	BIRT	Assignee:	Birt-ReportDesigner <Birt-ReportDesigner-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Maggie Shen <lshen>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	anmolwadhwa1996, bluesoldier, h.vonbargen
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description shino.kanno

2011-08-04 00:25:01 EDT

Build Identifier: 2.3.2.v20090605-1532

Requests:

1.Add the function to highlight the elements if there visibility sets hidden.
2.Add the function to highlight the properties tabs if they contain any non-default (not inherited) values. 

Details:
If the report has many element using visibility option,I have to click on every container (including Row and Column) to check the visibility expression.
Because of that I would like to know which element is visible or hidden, on the screen of layout view. 
For example, a hidden element is displayed with a special mark, a frame or something.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Henning von Bargen

2014-06-26 07:30:25 EDT

I often use invisible items (e.g. dynamic text items) to trigger data sets, for initialization tasks.
To visible note that they are hidden, I set the font to red and italics.
Since the generated report output never contains this font, this is a nice marker for the developer.

OTOH, apart from invisble items, I would like to have a "filter" for the Outline view, e.g.
- to show only dynamic text items
- to show only the layout structure (hide Text, Data, Dynamic Text, Images)
- to show only the BOUND elements (to display the "data model")
- to show only items with events (well, that's already there: The "Scripts" entry)
- to show only items which contain local layout properties.