When a Section report has focus in Visual Studio, the ActiveReports 7 Section Report toolbox group offers a number of report controls that you can use when creating a section report. You can drag these from the toolbox and drop them onto your section reports. These tools are different than those in the Page Report Toolbox.
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Note: Take care in naming report controls, as they are displayed to end users in the advanced search feature of the Viewer. |
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- Label
- The label is used to display descriptive text for a control and helps the user to describe the data displayed in a report.
- TextBox (Section Report)
- The text box is a basic reporting control that allows direct display and editing of unformatted text.
- CheckBox (Section Report)
- The checkbox gives the user an option of yes or no and true or false.
- RichTextBox
- The rich text box control allows the user to enter rich text in the form of formatted text, tables, hyperlinks, images, etc.
- Shape (Section Report)
- The shape is a user interface element that allows to draw shapes on the screen.
- Picture
- This control displays images files on the screen and also performs functions like resizing and cropping of images being used.
- Line (Section Report)
- The line visually draws boundaries or highlights specific areas of a report.
- PageBreak
- The PageBreak control is used when you need to stop printing a report inside the selected section and resume it on a new page.
- Barcode (Section Report)
- The BarCode control allows you to choose from over 30 barcode styles and bind it to data.
- SubReport (Section Report)
- Use the subreport control as a placeholder for data from a separate report. Use code to connect the separate report to the subreport control.
- OleObject
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You can add an OLE object, bound to a database or unbound, directly to your report.
Note: The OleObject control is not displayed in the toolbox by default, because it is obsolete, and is only available for backward compatibility. - ChartControl
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You can use the ChartControl for a graphical presentation of data in a report. There are numerous chart types that you can use to easily design and render data.
- ReportInfo
- The ReportInfo control allows you to quickly display page numbers, page counts and report dates.
- Cross Section Controls
- The CrossSectionLine and CrossSectionBox controls provide visual boundaries and highlight specific areas of your report that span multiple report sections. This CrossSectionLine control is a vertical line that starts in the header section and spans the intervening sections until it ends in the footer. (For a horizontal or diagonal line, use the Line control.) The CrossSectionBox control starts in the header section and spans any intervening sections to end in the related footer section.