Table Properties like color, Font, Background of Report Publisher are changing when migrating from older version of Empower to new version of Empower - WKB208543

SYMPTOMS

• Copying report methods from of Empower 3 FR5 SR4 or its earlier Versions to Empower 3.6.0 & above, the Table Properties like color, font and the table heading row background color are changing.

ENVIRONMENT

• Empower 3 FR5 SR4 and earlier Versions of Empower 3
• Empower 3.6.0 & above

CAUSE

• There are some intentional changes which were unintentionally omitted from the documentation and this is applicable from Empower 3 FR5 SR4 version
• This has been done on Table Enhancement Visibility.

     Default settings for table color preferences are now as follows: table backgrounds are light gray,
     table grid lines are gray, selected table rows are dark gray, the text in the selected rows is black,
     and non-editable cells are light gray. Tables from Report Publisher have transparent background
     by default.

    Note: With Empower 3 SR5, saved table color preferences are replaced with these new default
    settings. Other table preferences do not change. Waters recommends that you revise the table
    color preferences and set them as needed for your workflow.

   See the Empower 3 SR5 release notes, page 23.

• The default font type, size and color have not changed. The issue is that the default font will be applied to reports upon upgrade and impacts reports in which the font was changed by the customer.

 

FIX or WORKAROUND

1. Revise the table preferences and set them as needed for your workflow.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

CRI-3781 Raised for this issue.

The affected preferences for tables in reporting are the following. The tables will be updated to use these default settings:

BORDER STYLE for Border Lines, Heading Lines, Table Gridlines

Border style: Solid

Thickness: 1

Color: RGB(192, 192, 192);

 

TABLE BACKGROUND

Transparency - enabled

Background color, heading color - reset

 

FONTS for Table Title, Column Headings, Cell Data, Faulted Data

Font face: Arial

Font size: 8

Italic: true only for faulted data

Strikeout: false
Underline: false
Font weight: bold (faulted data), normal otherwise
Font color: red (highlighted and faulted), black for the rest of the cases

 

 

See KCS for information about changing heading and background colors.

Empower- In Empower 3.6.0, are you able to change the heading and background colour of tables in report publisher? - Waters