App Tour of the Web Report Designer
The fastest way to explore the Web Report Designer and to learn its basics is to start the built-in onboarding tour, which walks you through the Report Designer's main tools.
The app tour starts automatically the first time you open an application with an embedded Telerik Web Report Designer.
As illustrated by the video above, the main elements of the Web Report Designer's user interface are:
- An interactive Design surface where you create and style your report.
- A Components tray which contains all of the items that you can add to the report.
- An Explorer providing a tree-based structure of everything that is already in the report, including the data structure.
- A Properties area which shows the properties and values for the currently selected component.
- A Main menu which lets you open, save, and interact with reports on a global level along with the Asset Manager which is where you store all of your assets.
- A Preview button which shows an exact representation of the designed report.
- A Search box which allows you to search the report instance for any properties, component data sources, and so on. The Search box also allows you to locate tools, such as components that you can add to the report.
To view the app tour again, type Start onboarding in the search box.