End-User Report Designer with a Standard Toolbar

• Aug 10, 2018
• 2 minutes to read

This document describes a standard End-User Report Designer form’s UI elements.

A standard Report Designer’s main elements are:

• Main Menu

  Groups various commands under several categories (File, Edit, View, Format, and Window) that largely correspond to the buttons contained in the Report Designer’s toolbars.

• MDI Controller

  Provides the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) to the Report Designer and enables opening multiple reports in each of its Design Panels.

• Design Panel

  A surface displaying a report’s layout. It provides four tabs by default (Designer, Preview, HTML View, and Scripts) that allow you to edit a report, display its printing and webpage preview, as well as customize report scripts.

The following table describes the Report Designer’s toolbars:

Toolbar	Description
Main Toolbar	Contains commands to create new reports, save and load report layouts, cut, copy and paste controls, as well as undo and redo actions.
Formatting Toolbar	Contains commands related to text formatting. You can use these commands when editing a control’s text using its in-place editor.
Layout Toolbar	Contains commands that manage the size and location of individual and multiple report elements.
Zoom Toolbar	Contains commands for changing a report’s zoom factor (both in the design and preview modes).
Status Bar	Displays information about the element that is currently being hovered by the mouse pointer and provides tips regarding the current user actions.
Toolbox	Lists all available report controls. You can drag a control from the toolbox and drop it onto a report’s surface.

The following table describes the Report Designer’s dock panels:

Panel	Description
Field List	Displays the structure of a report’s data source and allows you to maintain a report’s collection of calculated fields and parameters.
Report Explorer	Displays a tree-like hierarchy of report elements and allows you to manage a report’s collection of formatting rules and visual styles.
Property Grid	Lists all properties available for a selected object (a report or any of its elements).
Report Gallery	Stores frequently used report controls, styles, data sources and full report layouts, and allows you to use them across different reports.
Group and Sort	Allows you to group and sort data in a report.
Scripts Errors	Displays the report scripts validating results. Clicking an error navigates to a corresponding line in the Scripts editor.