How do I embolden the axis column heading in DataView

In a DataView where, say, there is a row for each County (as identified in Layout as an Axes, by row) - there does not appear to be a way of emboldening the axes column heading?

Layout data blocks column headings are formatted through Layout\Data\Block\Format. However, Axis entities are not used in blocks, so this option is not available. DataView Settings Header Foreground setting only offers choice of colour, not emboldening/italicising.

DataView Analysis By County - Axis Cannot Be Emboldened or Italicised

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Helmut Heimann

Hi Mike Westley,

you might want to have a look into the settings you are able to achieve with cell templates. Such a template will be defined per entity (it is possible to define more than one) via the "Entities" section in your database:

Entity members format

Hope, this helps!

Kind Regards,

Helmut

Previous Member

If I understood properly, Mr. Westley is looking for option to make the dataview Layout title text bold.

He is not looking to make some specific member of the ByRow entity bold.

DataView Settings Header Foreground setting only offers choice of colour, not emboldening/italicising.

Regards,

unknown

HI Mike Westley, not the perfect answer, but you could put a label (with a white background and your choice of bold font) over the top of the DataView title.

Mike Westley

Hi Phil Marshall , yes, not the perfect answer - trying to avoid such workarounds - I'll await improvements, hopefully, in the next release. Thanks anyway.

Previous Member

You could also create an idea for this feature, and then let's see:

whether BOARD overtake it in its roadmap
whether the idea is popular among the community of this website.

I guess the idea would be to expand the customization ability to set the text to bold, italic, text size etc...(beyond the current ability to set the color of text, background and border), for all the members of this drop-down list:

Mike Westley

To explain better the request being made...

The following elements of a DataView CANNOT be formatted - ie bold/italicised, left/right/centred, font/size chosen:

Layout Title
Axis names (used as titles)
Axis cells (eg in example below, it is not possible to centre the content of Quarter and Month columns

No Settings available to set formatting for Layout Title or Axes cells and Axes titles

Previous Member

Hi Mike Westley

Agree that you can't format the headers, but you can format the axis values as shown here (bold & centred):

Formatted row headers

Done using entity template on Month, just need to set default value as shown here: (template name "Bold Centre")

Month entity template

Hope this helps a bit.

Robert

Previous Member

Hi Mike Westley

Can get closer to your requirement - this has bold centred header too:

Formatted col & row hdr

But there is a down side, all the other data is also bold and centred. Again using standard functionality of entity template. Unfortunately the bold on the data can't be removed, the row template takes precedence over the block format.

Robert

Mike Westley

Cheers Robert Brooke - I'll take a look at both as possible solutions to our immediate scenario.