XtraReport.ReportUnit Property

Specifies the system of measurement that is used throughout a report for expressing the values of certain properties (e.g., an element’s location, dimensions and margins).

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraReports.UI

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraReports.v20.1.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Reporting.Core, DevExpress.WindowsDesktop.Reporting.Core

Declaration

C#

[DefaultValue(ReportUnit.HundredthsOfAnInch)]
[SRCategory(ReportStringId.CatBehavior)]
public ReportUnit ReportUnit { get; set; }

VB.NET

<DefaultValue(ReportUnit.HundredthsOfAnInch)>
<SRCategory(ReportStringId.CatBehavior)>
Public Property ReportUnit As ReportUnit

Property Value

Type	Default	Description
ReportUnit	HundredthsOfAnInch	A ReportUnit enumeration value.

Available values:

Name	Description
HundredthsOfAnInch	The unit of measurement is in hundredths of an inch.
TenthsOfAMillimeter	The unit of measurement is in tenths of a millimeter.
Pixels	The unit of measurement is in pixels (one pixel equals 1/96 of an inch).

Remarks

The ReportUnit property specifies the units of measurement (Imperial or Metric) that are used to express values of such properties as XRControl.SizeF and Band.LocationF.

Only the XRControl.BorderWidth property value is expressed in ReportUnit.Pixels.

For a complete list of properties affected by this option, see the Report Units of Measurement topic.

Note

You can set the ReportUnit property globally, so that all the newly created reports have this property set to the required value. For this purpose, use the Report Designer Options dialog available within the XtraReports menu.

When setting ReportUnit.TenthsOfAMillimeter as report units globally, the empty and data-based reports newly created via the Report Wizard will have the XtraReport.PaperKind property set to PaperKind.A4. Otherwise, PaperKind.Letter is set by default.

Related GitHub Examples

The following code snippets (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contain references to the ReportUnit property.

Note

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C#

Reporting_how-to-vertically-align-the-xrcheckbox-in-the-xrtablecell-based-on-the-neighbor-cell-e2463/CS/XtraReport1.cs#L31

private int ConvertFromReportUnitToPixels(float value) {
    GraphicsUnit unit = (this.ReportUnit == ReportUnit.HundredthsOfAnInch ? GraphicsUnit.Inch : GraphicsUnit.Millimeter);
    float multiplier = (unit == GraphicsUnit.Inch ? 100 : 10);

reporting-winforms-best-fit-table-row-height/CS/dx_sample/XtraReport1.cs#L31

}
switch (this.ReportUnit) {
    case ReportUnit.HundredthsOfAnInch:

reporting-winforms-best-fit-table-column-width/CS/ReportHelper/ReportHelper.cs#L26

targetReport.PaperKind = PaperKind.Custom;
targetReport.ReportUnit = ReportUnit.Pixels;
targetReport.PageWidth = 3000;

VB.NET

Reporting_how-to-vertically-align-the-xrcheckbox-in-the-xrtablecell-based-on-the-neighbor-cell-e2463/VB/XtraReport1.vb#L32

Private Function ConvertFromReportUnitToPixels(ByVal value As Single) As Integer
    Dim unit As GraphicsUnit = (If(Me.ReportUnit = ReportUnit.HundredthsOfAnInch, GraphicsUnit.Inch, GraphicsUnit.Millimeter))
    Dim multiplier As Single = (If(unit = GraphicsUnit.Inch, 100, 10))

reporting-winforms-best-fit-table-column-width/VB/ReportHelper/ReportHelper.vb#L25

targetReport.PaperKind = PaperKind.Custom
targetReport.ReportUnit = ReportUnit.Pixels
targetReport.PageWidth = 3000