Reporting - Tips & Tricks (September 2019)

Thank you for you continued support and for choosing DevExpress Reports.

We’ve compiled a short list of interesting support tickets we answered in September. Hopefully you’ll find them of value as you integrate our reporting platform in your next desktop or web project.

Reporting - Multiple Supported Platforms (WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, .NET Core)

• Expression Editor - How to define an expression binding for a property whose name contains a period symbol (T819270)
• How to hide a report header and footer when exporting to CSV (T819411)
• How to create a hierarchical report with summaries of child nodes (T815523)
• How to create a copy of XRTable using the internal (de)serialization mechanism of the copy & paste routine (T816161)
• Report Summary - Changing TextFormatString in the BeforePrint event handler does not work (T816129)
• How to access a multi-value report parameter using the indexer operator (T816740)

WinForms Reporting

• Multi-select report parameters - How to implement values group selection by holding the Shift Key (T808391)
• End-User Report Designer - A report has an extra DataSet in the Field List after replacing the DataSource (T810612)

WPF Reporting

• CompositeLink - How to create a title for each printed GridControl (T819408)
• Report Designer - How to stack the properties panel on top of the already stacked Report Explorer and Field List (T815624)
• DocumentPreviewControl - How to modify the behavior of the Submit and Reset parameter panel buttons for preview editing needs (T812450)

Web Reporting

• ASPxDocumentViewer - Print Report button does not work after Google Chrome Update 76.0.3809.132 (T814122)

• ASPxWebDocumentViewer - Print Report button does not work after Google Chrome Update 76.0.3809.132 (T815649)

• ASPxWebDocumentViewer - Is it possible to pass a friendly ObjectDataSource exception message to an end-user ? (T813756)

• ASPxWebDocumentViewer - How to draw a second toolbar at the bottom of the viewer (T817581)

• Azure Reporting - ASPxWebDocumentViewer - The red message displaying “Internal Server Error” occasionally occurs when paging through a report (T812285)

• ASP.NET Core 3 - Running an application with report definition files results in the “Resource Not Found” error (T817785)

• DevExpress Reporting in ASP.NET Core WebApi - How to disable default controller implementations (T814289)

• How to use the DbDocumentStorage class and store previewed documents’ data in the database (T803355)

Report & Dashboard Server

• How to get a Bearer token to access documents on the Report and Dashboard Server? (T816486)
• How to repeat a scheduled job every N minutes? (T812496)
• How to use API methods to create and register multiple user accounts (T811131)

As always, we welcome your comments and feedback. If you’ve come across a useful Support Center ticket, feel free to share it with the DevExpress developer community here.