Reporting - Tips & Tricks (January - February 2020)

We’ve collected interesting support tickets you submitted for the last two months. Thank you for all your feedback. Hopefully you’ll find all this information of value as you integrate our reporting platform in your next desktop or web project.

Interesting Tickets

Reporting – Multiple Supported Platforms (WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, .NET Core)

• Export to DOCX - additional page breaks in the generated document (T865380)

• Export to DOCX - How to suppress TopMargin in SingleFile export mode? (T865380)

• CodeDOM compilation of report scripts generates a “A required privilege is not held by the client” error (T862428)

• XtraReport - Document generation is slow if invalid image URLs are used (T836268)

• How to create a template master report with a header and footer (T859324)

WinForms Reporting

• End-User Report Designer - How to create report parameters of a complex type? (T863848)

• Distinguish whether a report is being previewed, printed or exported in report scripts (T856515)

• How to export multiple WinForms GridControls side by side without overlapping? (T859636)

• How to access PrintingSystem for XRDesignMdiController’s Print Preview? (T859640)

WPF Reporting

• PrintHelper - How to close the print preview form after printing? (T862636)

• DocumentPreviewControl - How to expand all document map nodes (T862096)

• DocumentPreviewControl - How to display a different mouse cursor over clickable XRControls (T859063)

• End-User Report Designer - How to change the default TextFormatString for all DateTime fields? (T858251)

Web Reporting

• Web Report Designer - How to hide stored procedures? (T856911)

• Web Report Designer - How to add more cells to XRTable using the online designer (T865931)

• Expose custom function in Expression Editor of Asp.Net MVC Reporting Web Designer (T859307)

• Running reports in a docker container based on Alpine image (T848411)

Report & Dashboard Server

• E-mail subscribes get an e-mail with the scheduled task’s failure details (T858890)

• Can I view scheduled dashboards on a mobile phone? (T863539)

Documentation Updates

• ASP.NET Core Reporting: Adding a Viewer video 
  Demonstrates how to add the Web Document Viewer to an ASP.NET Core application.
• Create Invoice Manually topic 
  Describes how you can create a report that mirrors our Invoice demo.
• Document Export Overview topic 
  Describes how to export a report to available formats.
• Export to XLS / Export to XLSX topic 
  Details XML-specific export options.
• JavaScript Reporting | Localization topic 
  Describes how to use JSON files from the DevExpress Localization Service to localize the Document Viewer and End-User Report Designer in JavaScript and JavaScript Angular applications.
• LoadChildItemsForCollapsedNodes variable 
  Allows you to specify whether to pre-load the Field List’s child items in the Web Report Designer.
• ASPxQueryBuilder.ParametersMode property 
  Specifies whether query parameters are accessible in the Web Query Builder.
• UriJsonSource.PathParameters property 
  Allows you to customize requests to JSON web service endpoints at runtime.
• Application Deployment topic in WinForms and WPF 
  Describes how you can add the Newtonsoft.Json.dll library to your deployed application and allow end users to generate JSON Data Sources.
• Node, JsonNode and JsonSchemaNode classes 
  Allows you to define JSON data source schema.
• JsonDataSource.FillAsync method 
  Populates a JSON Data Source in an individual task asynchronously.
• XRLabel.AllowMarkupText property 
  Newly supported tags: sub/sup and font.
• XRChart.CustomizeStackedBarTotalLabel and XRChart.CustomizePieTotalLabel events 
  Shows you how to customize text in stacked bar and pie total labels.

Your Feedback Counts

We’re now collecting our customers’ feedback regarding the Web Report Designer Actions Panel to determine whether we need to enhance this user interface element. Please submit your feedback to the short survey in our previous blog post if you are using our Web Report Designer: Web Report Designer - Actions Panel Survey.

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