In some business scenarios, it is required to save and reuse the formatting of the objects.
Following are several different kinds of auto-style and what are the auto-style behaviors in Strategy Developer 9.x:
Reports: AutoStyle
The formatting of the report can be saved as an AutoStyle object. Once the autostyle is saved, it will be displayed in the autostyle drop down list, and can be selected to be applied to the report in both Strategy Developer and Strategy Web. And the autostyle can be also applied to a grid in a document in both Strategy Developer and Strategy Web.
Each formatting layer contains all the formatting properties: Font, Alignment, Border, and Pattern
NOTE: HTML cannot display patterns as the background of a cell. Therefore, the patterns do not display in Web reports.
TN 7129 - How to create an AutoStyle in Strategy Desktop 8.x
Documents (Grids and Controls): Document Autostyle
A Document Autostyle is a collection of formatting properties saved in a document for various control types (sections, text fields, lines, etc.). Autostyles based on one document can be applied to another document in order to change its formatting or appearance. And the document autostyle can be only applied using Strategy Developer.
TN 9512 - What is the document autostyle behavior in Strategy 8.x?
Graphs: *.3tf file
Custom graphs are a list of graph templates that are supplied with Strategy products. The custom graph files (.3TF files) contain attributes and data that define the format and look of a graph.
