Report Settings

Specifies the background color of report elements. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar ().

Specify border settings for report elements.

Specifies the font settings for report elements. Some of these settings are available in the Formatting Toolbar.

Specifies the text color for report elements. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar ().

Invokes the Formatting Rule Sheet Editor, allowing you to manage and customize formatting rules, which can then be defined for a report's bands and controls. To learn more on this, refer to Conditionally Change a Control's Appearance.

Invokes the Formatting Rules Editor, allowing you to choose which rules should be applied to the report during report generation, and define the precedence of the applied rules. To learn more on this, refer to Conditionally Change a Control's Appearance.

Specifies indent values used to render the contents of a report's controls.

Specifies the fill color for report pages. This color may be changed later in a report's Print Preview.

Allows you to invoke the Styles Editor, which is intended to manage and customize a report's style sheets. To learn more on this, refer to Store and Restore Style Sheets.

Allows you to define a path to the style sheet contained in a report style sheet file (.REPSS). To learn more on this, refer to Store and Restore Style Sheets.

Allows you to change the alignment of a report controls' text. This option is also available in the Formatting Toolbar.

Allows you to customize a report's watermark options. For more information about this, refer to Create or Modify Watermarks of a Report.

Specifies the name of the report, which is displayed in its Design Panel tab.

Allows you to set the export options for each file type (PDF, XLS, TXT, etc.). These options vary with the file type.

Allows you to choose units of measurement for a report (one hundredth of an inch or a tenth of a millimeter).

Allows you to choose the programming language to be used in scripting (C#, Visual Basic or J#).

Allows you to manage the collection of strings that represent the paths to the assemblies used by the scripts in a report.

This property contains events which you can handle with the required scripts. For more information on scripting, refer to Handle Events via Scripts.

The page margin lines are dotted lines shown on the currently selected page in the report's preview. Use this property to change the visibility of these lines.

Allows you to choose whether report controls outside the right page margin should be split across pages, or moved in their entirety to the next page. This option is useful for the cross-tab reports creation.

Specifies whether a report should be created in print preview.

Allows you to access a report's calculated fields collection.

Determines a report's data adapter used to populate the report's data source. It is created automatically when the Data Member property is defined. To learn more about this, refer to Bind a Report to Data.

Determines a specific list in a report's Data Source, for which the Report Designer objects display data. To learn more about this, refer to Bind a Report to Data.

Determines a report's data source. To learn more about this, refer to Bind a Report to Data.

Allows you to invoke the Filter String Editor, which is intended to easily define a filtering condition for a report's data. For more information about this, refer to Change or Apply Data Filtering to a Report.

This property allows you to add some additional information to a report; for example its id, by which it can then be accessible via scripts.

Allows you to define a path to data contained in an external XML file. The data contained in the file will then be used as a report's data source.

Determines a report's name, by which it can be accessed in the Report Explorer, Property Grid or via scripts.

Allows you to load an XML/XSD file, containing the schema of a report's data source.

Contains the following options.

- Show Designer's Hints
The designer hints are intended to provide tooltips, both describing the purpose of certain report elements for inexperienced users, and describing the reasons and solutions for possible export or printing warnings. By using this property, these hints can be turned on or off.

- Show Export Warnings
The export warnings appear when report controls are overlapped, indicating that a report layout may be incorrect when exporting to certain table-based formats (such as XLS, HTML or RTF).

- Show Printing Warnings
The printing warnings are intended to notify you that some of a report's controls are placed outside the right page margin, so that the report contains unnecessary pages.

Specifies how many times the Detail band should be printed when a data source is defined for the report, and it is not empty.

Specifies how many times the Detail band should be printed when no data source is defined for the report.

Determines whether to draw the Snap Grid when a report is being designed.

Determines the size of the Snap Grid's cells.

Specifies whether to snap controls to the Snap Grid when they are located or resized.

Specifies the snapping mode for report elements when they are being aligned using the Snap Grid.

Allows you to define how a report is named in the document map when the report bookmarks are implemented. By default, it is synchronized with the report's Name property.

Determines whether the page orientation is Landscape (when set to Yes) or Portrait (when set to No).

Determines the width of a report's margins (measured in report units).

Specifies page height, in report units. This property can only be set if the Paper Kind property is set to Custom.

Specifies page width, in report units. This property can only be set if the Paper Kind property is set to Custom.

Determines the type of paper for a report. Setting this property to any value different from Custom will prevent the Page Height, Page Width and Paper Name properties from being customized.

Determines the name of the custom paper used in the printer that will print the document.

The Paper Name property's value is in effect only when the Paper Kind property is set to Custom. If the printer on which a document is printed doesn't support the paper type specified by the Paper Name property's value, then it will default to the Letter paper size. In this case, it's also necessary to set the Page Width and Page Height properties to the corresponding values of the selected paper.

Determines the name of the printer to use when printing a report. Note that the specified printer should be installed on the machine.

Specifies which of the default printer's settings should be used when printing a report.

Allows you to access a report's parameters collection.

Allows you to define whether it's required to request the values of a report's parameters when generating the report.

Specifies options that define how a report is printed in various circumstances.

- BlankDetailCount

Specifies how many times the empty Detail band is repeated before printing the regular data.

- Detail Count

Specifies how many times the Detail band should be printed when a datasource is defined for the report, and it is not empty.

- Detail Count at Design Time

Specifies how many times the Detail band is printed when a report is being previewed at design time.

- Detail Count when Data Source is Empty

Specifies how many times the Detail band should be printed when no datasource is defined for the report.

- Print when Data Source is Empty

Specifies whether or not a report should be printed if its datasource is empty.

Specifies whether an error message is shown when the page margins are set outside the printable area.

Specifies whether a print status dialog is shown when a document is being printed.

Allows you to invoke the Report Editor, intended to manage and customize a report's bands.