ActiveReports provides a wide range of layout options for your Page/RDLX report that you can easily control by using the specific properties.

Page/RDLX reports allow to create a very powerful layout. Here we show a few base use-cases and tutorials. ActiveReports provides a wide range of layout options for your Page/RDLX report that you can easily control by using the specific properties.

 

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Set Page Size, Margins, and Orientation in Page Reports

Learn about the options to control page layout properties such as page size, page margins, and page orientation. These options allow you to define the layout settings for each page in a Page report.

Skip Page Generation in Page Reports

The topic shows how to hide or show a page when you preview a Page report.

Set Page Layout in Z- or N-Order

A report may have horizontally or vertically growing data rendered across multiple pages during the preview. In this case you can use the LayoutPagesOrder property of the report to specify the page layout order for a Page or an RDLX report. ActiveReports supports two types of page layout order, Z-Order or N-Order.

Manage Blank Rows in a Table Data Region in Page Reports

Learn about the RepeatBlankRows property and how to use it when creating different report layouts.

Hide or Show Sections in RDLX and RDLX Dashboard Reports

The topic shows how to hide or show the sections in reports with multiple sections.

Keep Groups Together in Data Regions

You can keep the contents of a group together on a single page by setting the Keep Together on one page if possible option (Table group) or the KeepTogether property (Tablix row group).

Manage Page Breaks in Data Regions

You can control page breaks in data groups of data regions by using the NewPage property for data regions and its combination with the PageBreakAtStart, PageBreakAtEnd, and BreakLocation properties. These properties help you tune page breaks after or before a data group in your report and on which page to continue displaying the report content.