XRDesignMdiController.DefaultReportSettings Property
Provides access to the default report settings.
Namespace: DevExpress.XtraReports.UserDesigner
Assembly: DevExpress.XtraReports.v25.2.Extensions.dll
NuGet Package: DevExpress.Win.Reporting
Declaration
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| ReportSettings | Report page settings. |
Remarks
The StandardReportDesigner and RibbonReportDesigner components use the following default settings to create new reports:
- PaperKind: Letter
- Landscape: false
- ReportUnit: HundredthsOfAnInch
- PageHeight: 1100
- PageWidth: 850
- Margins: 100, 100, 100, 100
- RollPaper: false
- DrawGrid: true
- SnappingMode: SnapLines
- ExportFormat: Pdf
- FileName:Document
- Font: Arial, 9.75f
- ScriptLanguage: CSharp
Use the DefaultReportSettings property to change the default report settings.
Change Default Report Settings at Design Time
When you drop a StandardReportDesigner or RibbonReportDesigner component to your form, a XRDesignMdiController item appears on your form called reportDesigner1.
Click reportDesigner1 and switch to the Properties window. Expand the DefaultReportSettings group.
You can change the default settings for report. Reports created in End-User Designer copy their report settings from the DefaultReportSettings object.
Change Default Report Settings at Runtime
The following code sample illustrates how to create an End-User Designer instance and specify default report settings.
The following code sample creates an End-User Designer instance and specifies default settings for its reports:
using DevExpress.XtraReports.UI;
using DevExpress.Drawing.Printing;
using DevExpress.XtraReports.UserDesigner;
// ...
XRDesignForm form = new XRDesignForm();
XRDesignMdiController reportDesigner = form.DesignMdiController;
// Report Page Settings
reportDesigner.DefaultReportSettings.PaperKind = DXPaperKind.Letter;
reportDesigner.DefaultReportSettings.Landscape = true;
reportDesigner.DefaultReportSettings.RollPaper = false;
reportDesigner.DefaultReportSettings.ReportUnit = ReportUnit.HundredthsOfAnInch;
reportDesigner.DefaultReportSettings.Margins = new System.Drawing.Printing.Margins(50, 50, 100, 100);
// Report Font Settings
reportDesigner1.DefaultReportSettings.Font = new DevExpress.Drawing.DXFont("Arial", 12f);
// Report Export Settings
reportDesigner.DefaultReportSettings.ExportSettings.FileName = "TestReport";
reportDesigner.DefaultReportSettings.ExportSettings.ExportFormat = DevExpress.XtraPrinting.ExportFormat.Xlsx;
// Report Layout Settings
reportDesigner.DefaultReportSettings.DesignerSettings.DrawGrid = false;
reportDesigner.DefaultReportSettings.DesignerSettings.SnappingMode = DevExpress.XtraReports.UI.SnappingMode.SnapToGridAndSnapLines;
form.ShowDialog();