Control Toolbox
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The Control Toolbox contains all available report controls and allows end-users to add them to the report being edited. Report controls can display both static and dynamic information of different kinds (simple or formatted text, pictures, tables, etc.) and adjust a report layout (organize controls within panels, insert page brakes, etc.).
The available report controls can be divided into the following categories.
To learn how to add a control from the Toolbox to a report, see the Add Controls to a Report section.
General Content
The following controls are most commonly used to display data in a report.
| Icon | Control | Description |
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Label | The most basic Label control is intended to display plain text in a report. |
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Check Box | The Check Box control displays True/False or Checked/Unchecked/Indeterminate states in a report by displaying (or not) a check mark, which can be accompanied by a text description. |
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Rich Text | The Rich Text control displays formatted text in a report. |
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Picture Box | The Picture Box displays static or dynamic images of various file formats in a report. |
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Table | The Table control is designed to display tabular information in a report. |
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Character Comb | The Character Comb control displays text so that each character is printed in an individual cell. |
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Bar Code | The Bar Code control transforms its content into a bar code of the specified type. |
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Zip Code | The Zip Code control transforms its content into a zip code. |
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Gauge | The Gauge control provides the capability to embed graphical gauges into a report. |
Extended Data
The following controls are connected to data individually, without accessing a report’s data source.
| Icon | Control | Description |
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Chart | The Chart control displays a series of points using numerous 2D or 3D chart types. |
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Sparkline | The Sparkline control displays a compact chart that is commonly used to reflect the flow of data for every row in a report. |
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Pivot Grid | The Pivot Grid control displays dynamic data in a cross-tabulated form. |
Report Layout
The following controls allow you to draw shapes in a report and customize the report layout.
| Icon | Control | Description |
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Panel | The Panel control is a container that frames separate report controls to allow them to be easily moved, copied and pasted, and visually unite them in the report’s preview. |
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Line | The Line control draws a line of a specified direction, style, width and color. |
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Shape | The Shape control draws one of the predefined graphic objects (rectangle, ellipse, etc.) |
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Subreport | The Subreport control allows you to include other reports in a current report. |
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Page Break | The Page Break control inserts a page delimiter at any point within a report. |
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Cross-Band Line | The Cross-band Line control draws a line through several bands. |
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Cross-Band Box | The Cross-band Box control draws a rectangle through several bands. |
Document Statistics
The dynamic content of the following controls is not obtained from a data source.
| Icon | Control | Description |
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Page Info | The Page Info control is intended to add page numbers and system information (the current date and time or the current user name) to a report. |
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Table of Contents | The Table of Contents control generates a table of contents based on bookmarks specified for report elements. |
Add Controls to a Report
To add a control from the Toolbox to a report, do one of the following.
- Double-click an item in the Toolbox to create the corresponding control at the default position.
Drag-and-drop an item from the Toolbox onto the required position within a report.
Select an item in the Toolbox, and then indicate the bounding rectangle by holding down the left mouse button.
If you need to perform selection, re-arranging or resizing operations, select the Pointer item (
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