Major Properties and Settings of Report Item
The Report item contains several specific properties that control the design-time and run-time behavior as well as the general layout and functionality of the generated report documents.
DocumentName
The DocumentName
specifies the default document name when exporting from a Report Viewer. The Standalone Report Designer won't use DocumentName
when exporting. It will rather use the Report Name
.
The DocumentName
may be set to an Expression containing Report Parameters and other Gloabal Objects. The DataSource fields are not accessible at this Report level and cannot be used - see Expression Scope for more details.
Paging
The Report item delivers the PageSettings
and PageNumberingStyle
settings for controlling the paging functionality.
PageSettings
The PageSettings
determine the layout of the report document in physical page formats like PDF and when printed on paper. This includes the page size, watermarks, number of columns, and so on.
The PageSettings
are entirely respected in physical (hard) pagination formats, whereas some of them are ignored in soft pagination formats. The difference is explained in the article on interactive and print layout.
PageNumberingStyle
The PageNumberingStyle
property is related only to the paging of report books and determines whether to restart the page count with each report.
Report Parameters
The Report parameters are global objects that can be used all over the Report. Their main application is for filtering the report data and can also be used for passing external information to the Report and for other purposes.
For more detailed information, refer to the following articles:
- Adding Report Parameters
- Using Report Parameters in Expressions
- Using Multi-Value Parameters
- Cascading Parameters with Applied Filtering on Report Level
- Cascading Parameters with Applied Filtering on Data Source Level
Rendering and Processing
The Report item exposes a set of properties that allow you to control some aspects of its processing and rendering.
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SkipBlankPages
— As of R1 2021 SP1 (15.0.21.224), you can indicate to the Reporting engine whether to ignore the pages with non-significant content by using theSkipBlankPages
property. By default,SkipBlankPages
isTrue
.For example,
SkipBlankPages
may be keptTrue
to remove the empty pages due to horizontal page breaks. For more information, refer to the articles on horizontal paging and on skipping blank pages in the rendered report. -
RuntimeSettings
— As of R2 2021 (15.1.21.512), you can specify device information settings per particular report as part of its definition by configuring theRuntimeSettings
report property.Apart from setting the export parameters for a particular extension,
RuntimeSettings
allows you to hide it and change its description when listed to the end-user. -
ReportEngineSettings
— As of R3 2022 SP1 (16.2.22.1109), you can set the property CacheDefinitionProperties per particular report as part of its definition by configuring it as an element of theReportEngineSettings
report property.The available values are described in the API Reference in Enum CacheDefinitionProperties. Setting the property to
Yes
/No
would force the Reporting engine to enable/disable the property for the specific report. SelectingDefault
would let the Reporting engine use the 'cacheDefinitionProperties' key in the 'processing' element from the application configuration file - processing Element. -
Localizable
—To start localizing the report, set theLocalizable
property toTrue
. For more information about the localization procedure, refer to the article on localizing reports.If at any point the
Localizable
property is set toFalse
, all resource files are deleted and the report property values are filled with the currently selected language values.
Styling and Design
The Report item exposes a set of properties that allow you to control styling and other design-time-related processes.
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StyleSheet
— Enables you to create custom styles through a built-in styling model that is similar to CSS. You can assign these styles by using CSS selectors such asType
,Attribute
,Style
, andDescendent
.For more information about the process, refer to the following articles:
ExternalStyleSheets
— Imports StyleSheets previously created and stored in XML files. For more information, refer to the article on exporting and reusing stylesheets.UnitOfMeasure
— Specifies the default unit of measure for the report. All newly created report items will have their locations, sizes, and so on in thisUnitType
. For new reports, the unit of measure is automatically determined based on the machine's regional settings - if the current machine uses metric culture, the default unit of measure will be set to cm, otherwise - inch.SnapGridSize
— Controls the step of theRulers
in the Standalone Report Designer and in the Visual Studio Report Designer.