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Report Designer Requirements and Limitations

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Report Designer Requirements

Required Libraries

Web Reporting components require DevExtreme and third-party libraries, which you can register automatically. To do this, add the resources section to the application’s Web.config file:

<devExpress>
    <!-- ... -->
    <resources>
        <add type="ThirdParty" />
        <add type="DevExtreme" />
    </resources>
</devExpress>

For manual registration, review the following help topic: Client Script Libraries.

Register HTTP Handlers

Register ASPxHttpHandlerModule in the web.config file as a module to process resources and as a handler to process data.

The ASPxHttpHandlerModule is automatically registered in this file in the following cases:

  • When you use DevExpress project templates to create an application with reporting controls;
  • When the Visual Studio Designer opens a page with the Report Designer in markup.

If you create the Report Designer in code, you should register ASPxHttpHandlerModule explicitly. Insert the declarations in the system.web/httpModules and system.webServer/modules configuration sections, and add the handler registration to the system.web/httpHandlers and system.webServer/handlers sections.

<system.web>
...
  <httpHandlers>
    ...
    <add type="DevExpress.Web.ASPxHttpHandlerModule, DevExpress.Web.v24.1, Version=24.1.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a" 
         verb="GET,POST" path="DXXRD.axd" validate="false" />
    <add type="DevExpress.Web.ASPxHttpHandlerModule, DevExpress.Web.v24.1, Version=24.1.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a" 
         verb="GET,POST" path="DXXRDV.axd" validate="false" />
    <add type="DevExpress.Web.ASPxHttpHandlerModule, DevExpress.Web.v24.1, Version=24.1.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a" 
         verb="GET,POST" path="DXQB.axd" validate="false" />
  </httpHandlers>  
  <httpModules>
    <add type="DevExpress.Web.ASPxHttpHandlerModule, DevExpress.Web.v24.1, Version=24.1.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a" name="ASPxHttpHandlerModule" />
  </httpModules>
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
  <handlers>
    ...
    <add type="DevExpress.Web.ASPxHttpHandlerModule, DevExpress.Web.v24.1, Version=24.1.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a" 
         verb="GET,POST" path="DXXRD.axd" name="ASPxReportDesignerHandlerModule" preCondition="integratedMode" />
    <add type="DevExpress.Web.ASPxHttpHandlerModule, DevExpress.Web.v24.1, Version=24.1.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a" 
         verb="GET,POST" path="DXXRDV.axd" name="ASPxWebDocumentViewerHandlerModule" preCondition="integratedMode" />
    <add type="DevExpress.Web.ASPxHttpHandlerModule, DevExpress.Web.v24.1, Version=24.1.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a" 
         verb="GET,POST" path="DXQB.axd" name="ASPxQueryBuilderDesignerHandlerModule" preCondition="integratedMode" />
  </handlers>
  <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
    <add type="DevExpress.Web.ASPxHttpHandlerModule, DevExpress.Web.v24.1, Version=24.1.7.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b88d1754d700e49a" name="ASPxHttpHandlerModule" />
  </modules>
</system.webServer>

The Report Designer validates the configuration and displays the following error message if the corresponding handlers are not registered.

The DXXRD.axd handler is not registered in the web.config (section: system.webServer/handlers). To disable web.config validation, use the DevExpress.Web.Mvc.ReportDesignerSettings.DisableHttpHandlerValidation property.

Do not use handlers and/or validate their registration in the following cases:

  • You use custom HTTP handlers or MVC controllers to process requests.
  • If the application does not include SQL data sources and users do not need Query Builder functionality in the Report Designer, the DXQB.axd handler is unnecessary.
  • Handlers are registered in the <location> section and automatic validation fails.

To disable automatic handler validation, set the ReportDesignerSettings.DisableHttpHandlerValidation option to true:

@Html.DevExpress().ReportDesigner(settings => {
    settings.Name = "ReportDesigner1";
    settings.DisableHttpHandlerValidation = true;
}).Bind(Model.Report).GetHtml();

Scripting Support

Report scripts are disabled in the Web Report Designer. For more information on security in report scripts, review the following help topic: Scripts Security.

Limitations