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ActiveReports offers three designers: Standalone Designer, WebDesigner, and Visual Studio Integrated Designer. These designers provide rich report design functionality for web and desktop applications.
Standalone Designer Key Features
ActiveReports provides a compiled tool - a standalone designer application for desktop applications. This designer lets users view, edit, and create complete design-based, code-free, .NET reports in a single application.
- Predefined templates and simple drag-and-drop operations to make report designing easy and quick, without using any code.
- Customize the desired Report Designer using the modularized designer controls.
- Offers deeper insight into the data with rich interactivity, including drill-down, drill-through, sorting, and more.
- Flexible API for advanced control and customization.
WebDesigner Key Features
ActiveReports WebDesigner is based on HTML5/JS technology stacks available for the ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core MVC, allowing users to create ad hoc reports in all major browsers.
- Easily create new reports with built-in drag-and-drop functionality, snap lines, guides, and wizards.
- Provide deeper insight into your data with rich interactivity, including drill-down, drill-through, sorting, and more.
- Easy to use with an Office-inspired UI designed for a familiar look and feel.
- Rich API to enable UI customization based on the desired functionality.
- Create ad-hoc reports in the desired browser.
Visual Studio Integrated Designer Key Features
ActiveReports offers an integrated designer that lets users create report layouts in Visual Studio and edit them at design time, visually, and through code, script, or regular expressions.
- The Visual Studio-based designer includes full integration into the best .NET IDE.
- Build code-based functions in the code behind.
- Drag-and-drop controls to easily create new reports.
- Select report controls from the built-in Toolbox.
- Visualize the report layout as a tree view with the Report Explorer.
- Convert existing reports with the Report Conversion Utility feature.
- Visualize Tablix row and column groupings with the Group Editor panel.
Report Controls
ActiveReports Designers support the below controls and data regions (report items) in Page, RDLX, and Section Reports:
| Section Reports |
Page Reports/RDLX Reports |
- ReportInfo
- Label
- Line
- PageBreak
- SubReport
- Shape
- Picture
- RichTextBox with HTML tag support
- Chart with separate data source
- Textbox
- Barcode with standard styles plus RSS and UPC styles
- Checkbox
- CrossSectionBox extends from a header section to the related footer section
- CrossSectionLine extends from a header section to the related footer section
- InputFieldText
- InputFieldCheckBox
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- Table data region
- Tablix data region
- Map data region
- Chart data region
- Classic Chart
- List data region
- BandedList data region
- Sparkline data region
- FormattedText with mail merge capabilities and XHTML + CSS support
- Bullet Graph
- BarCode
- CheckBox
- TextBox
- TableOfContents
- Line
- Container
- Shape
- Image
- Subreport
- Overflow Placeholder (Page Report only)
- ContentPlaceHolder (RDLX Master Report only)
- InputField
- CustomReportItem
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