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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Add Grids to Report Designs

Add Grids to Report Designs

Create a report design file.
You can add grids to your report design to help you arrange items. Unlike tables, grids are simple layout devices. They don't iterate through the data rows that a data set returns. Grids are typically used to display a single instance object field value.
  1. To add a grid to your report design, drag the
    Grid
     item from the
    Palette
     view to the required position on the
    Layout
     tab of the main view.
  2. Specify the number of columns and rows that you want to see in your grid. You can now drag data set items from the
    Data Explorer
     view or report items from the
    Palette
     view to each cell in the grid.
  3. Adjust the size and appearance of your grid’s cells on the
    General
     tab of the grid's
    Properties
     view. Grid cells have no default height or width values. Workday recommends that you don't impose any. Adding height and width values can cause the generated PDF to have unwanted line breaks.
    If you add a grid within a grid, avoid truncating values by ensuring that the column width of the outer grid is greater than the column width of the inner grid.
  4. By default, grid cell borders are invisible. To adjust border visibility, edit the
    Values
     under the
    Box
     heading on the
    Advanced
     tab of the cell’s
    Properties
     view.
  5. You can create nested grids by dragging a new grid to a cell of an existing grid.