Report Design Surface

The Design Surface displays a report that is being edited in the Web Report Designer. Design Surface includes the following components:

Rulers. The horizontal and vertical rulers display tickmarks in your report’s specified measurement units. Click an element to evaluate its size and location using the rulers. The horizontal ruler also allows modifying the report’s side margins by moving the left and right sliders on the ruler. The vertical ruler allows changing the band height by moving its top and bottom sliders.

Band Captions. In the Report Designer, each report band carries a caption, tab title, and color, which depends on the band’s kind. These captions are not printed in the resultant report document and are only visible at design time. For convenient work, the band’s content can be expanded or collapsed at design time by clicking the tab on the left side of the band. To access a band’s properties, click the band’s caption and switch to the Properties Panel.

Expression Editor. When you select a report element (report, band, or report control), the Expression Editor button is displayed next to the element on the Design Surface. The Expression Editor offers a choice of functions, operators, data source fields, report elements, constants, and variables to create an expression.

Report Design Analyzer. The Report Design Analyzer shows errors, warnings, and information messages that help you and your end users detect and fix issues in a report. In collapced view the Report Design Analyzer displayed as a bell in the right bottom corner .

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