ActiveReports 19 User Guide
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Plain Text is a format that opens in Notepad or Microsoft Excel depending on the file extension you use in the filePath parameter of the Export method. Use the extension .txt to open files in Notepad, or use .csv to open comma separated value files in Excel. The Text export filter has a number of useful properties that allow you to control your output. You can set the properties either in code using the TextExport object after adding reference to MESCIUS.ActiveReports.Export.Xml package in your project.

Text Export Properties

Property Valid Values Description
Encoding System.Text.ASCIIEncoding (default), System.Text.UnicodeEncoding, System.Text.UTF7Encoding, or System.Text.UTF8Encoding This property can only be set in code. Enter an enumerated system encoding value to use for character encoding.
PageDelimiter String Enter a character or sequence of characters to mark the end of each page.
QuotationMode
      
Specifies whether to add double quotes to the exported data.
  • AutoQuote – Simple values are exported without quotes.  The quotes are added only when the data contains column or row delimiters. This is the default export behavior.
  • AlwaysQuote – Exported values are always quoted.

QuotationSymbol

 

 Char Enter a character to use as quotation mark in the exported text file. Only fields with delimiter characters are quoted.
SuppressEmptyLines True (default) or False Set to False if you want to keep empty lines in the exported text file. Otherwise, white space is removed.
TextDelimiter String Enter a character or sequence of characters to mark the end of each text field. This is mainly for use with CSV files that you open in Excel.

Text Export usage and limitations

Usage:

Does not support anything but plain fields and labels:

Export Report using Text Export Filter

Use the following steps to export reports through Text export filters.

  1.    
  2. Create a new or open an existing Windows Forms App (.NET Framework or .NET) in Visual Studio project.
  3. Go to the Project Explorer, right-click the project and select Add > New Item.
  4. Select ActiveReports 19 Standalone Report > Add and choose Section report type, and then click Finish.
    The xml-based Section report (report.rpx) is added.
  5. Add a reference to MESCIUS.ActiveReports.Export.Xml package in the project. See Manage ActiveReports Dependencies for more information.
  6. In your project's Bin > Debug folder, place the report.rpx (Section Report).    
  7. On the Form.cs or Form.vb, double-click the title bar to create the Form_Load event.
  8. In Form_Load event, add the following code to export Section Reports .
    Visual Basic.NETcode. Paste INSIDE the Form_Load event
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    ' Create a Section report.
Dim rpt As New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.SectionReport()

' For the code to work, report.rpx must be placed in the bin\debug folder of your project.
Dim xtr As New System.Xml.XmlTextReader(Application.StartupPath + "\report.rpx")
rpt.LoadLayout(xtr)
rpt.Run()
                   
' Export the report in Text format.
Dim TextExport1 As New GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Xml.Section.TextExport()
TextExport1.Export(rpt.Document, Application.StartupPath + "\TextExpt.txt")

    C# code. Paste INSIDE the Form_Load event.
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    // Create a Section Report
GrapeCity.ActiveReports.SectionReport rpt = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.SectionReport();

// For the code to work, report.rpx must be placed in the bin\debug folder of your project.
System.Xml.XmlTextReader xtr = new System.Xml.XmlTextReader(Application.StartupPath + "\\report.rpx");
rpt.LoadLayout(xtr);
rpt.Run();

// Export the report in Text format.
GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Xml.Section.TextExport TextExport1 = new GrapeCity.ActiveReports.Export.Xml.Section.TextExport();
TextExport1.Export(rpt.Document, Application.StartupPath + "\\TextExpt.txt");