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Some key features of FlexReport are as follows:
- Powerful Reporting Engine: Enhance your reporting capabilities using FlexReport’s powerful reporting engine to generate meaningful reports in less time. The engine also allows smooth and fast access to data, ensuring report creation always remains up-to-date with the latest information.
- Modern Components for Reporting: Utilize modern and organized Ribbon-based UI reporting applications, i.e., FlexReportDesigner and FlexViewer for creating and displaying reports, respectively. Using FlexReportDesigner and FlexViewer applications for reporting needs is very easy.
- Code-free report creation: Experience code-free report authoring using FlexReport’s designer application. You can create engaging and easy-to-understand reports using enhanced data presentation capabilities of the designer application without a single line of code. Creating colorful reports for quick analysis is very simple, see Using Designer.
- Advanced Data Operations: Perform crucial business reporting operations such as grouping, sorting, and filtering on your reports to extract meaningful information from a large dataset. These operations help you reveal patterns and trends that are not immediately apparent in raw data. To learn how to apply various operations in your report, see , , and topics.
- Enhanced Data Visualization Capabilities: Design your report using the advanced capabilities of FlexReport Designer to hide confidential information from specific users. The designer allows you to create sub-sections containing reporting fields for each section in a report to display information in an intuitive and personalized manner. Moreover, it lets you hide confidential information from certain users, allows users to expand or collapse a table, and format summarized data differently than other data. Learn how to implement advance data visualization in reports using sections and sub-sections topic.
- Single Viewer for various Document Types: Preview your documents, such as C1Report, C1FlexReport, SSRS, and C1Document, using the FlexViewer control. This control allows you to use or reset parameters, refresh and cancel report rendering, create bookmarks for navigating to report locations etc. See View Mode section to learn how to preview report.
- Accurate Crystal Report Migration: Migrate crystal report’s data into FlexReport seamlessly to use it in your application. Certain features for migration, like sub-sections, complex expressions, special ordered groups, and enhanced border styles are all supported by FlexReport.
- Support Broad Spectrum of Charts: Condense your large volume of data into effective visual representation using charts to make it easier for grasping and analyse complex information quickly. Presenting data using charts helps in illustrating relationships, patterns, and trends that might get missed while representing data in tabular format. FlexReport provides more than 70 chart types to choose from. To learn how to include and bind charts with data in your reports, see Chart Field topic.
- Versatile DataBase Support: Access to diverse data sources allows for more thorough analysis and informed decision-making. The list of supported data-source types in FlexReport are OLEDB, ODBC, XML, Object in external assembly, Microsoft SQL Server Compact Data Provider version 3.5 and 4.0, SQLite, and ADO.NET DataConnectors. Connecting report using data source is very simple.
- Exporting Capabilities: Export reports into different file formats to meet different preferences of users while storing and sharing them. Providing multiple formats caters to these preferences, making it easier for users to work with the reports in their preferred environment. Certain file formats are better suited for specific tools or applications. For example, exporting to Excel (.xlsx) allows for further data manipulation, while exporting to PDF ensures the report's layout and design remain consistent. To learn how to export reports in different file formats, see .
