We’ve collected interesting support tickets you submitted for the last two months. Thank you for all your feedback. Hopefully you’ll find all this information of value as you integrate our reporting platform in your next desktop or web project.
Interesting Tickets
Reporting – Multiple Supported Platforms (WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, .NET Core)
Export to DOCX - additional page breaks in the generated document (T865380)
Export to DOCX - How to suppress TopMargin in SingleFile export mode? (T865380)
XtraReport - Document generation is slow if invalid image URLs are used (T836268)
How to create a template master report with a header and footer (T859324)
WinForms Reporting
End-User Report Designer - How to create report parameters of a complex type? (T863848)
Distinguish whether a report is being previewed, printed or exported in report scripts (T856515)
How to export multiple WinForms GridControls side by side without overlapping? (T859636)
How to access PrintingSystem for XRDesignMdiController’s Print Preview? (T859640)
WPF Reporting
PrintHelper - How to close the print preview form after printing? (T862636)
DocumentPreviewControl - How to expand all document map nodes (T862096)
DocumentPreviewControl - How to display a different mouse cursor over clickable XRControls (T859063)
End-User Report Designer - How to change the default TextFormatString for all DateTime fields? (T858251)
Web Reporting
Web Report Designer - How to hide stored procedures? (T856911)
Web Report Designer - How to add more cells to XRTable using the online designer (T865931)
Expose custom function in Expression Editor of Asp.Net MVC Reporting Web Designer (T859307)
Running reports in a docker container based on Alpine image (T848411)
Report & Dashboard Server
E-mail subscribes get an e-mail with the scheduled task’s failure details (T858890)
Can I view scheduled dashboards on a mobile phone? (T863539)
Documentation Updates
- ASP.NET Core Reporting: Adding a Viewer video
Demonstrates how to add the Web Document Viewer to an ASP.NET Core application. - Create Invoice Manually topic
Describes how you can create a report that mirrors our Invoice demo. - Document Export Overview topic
Describes how to export a report to available formats. - Export to XLS / Export to XLSX topic
Details XML-specific export options. - JavaScript Reporting | Localization topic
Describes how to use JSON files from the DevExpress Localization Service to localize the Document Viewer and End-User Report Designer in JavaScript and JavaScript Angular applications. - LoadChildItemsForCollapsedNodes variable
Allows you to specify whether to pre-load the Field List’s child items in the Web Report Designer. - ASPxQueryBuilder.ParametersMode property
Specifies whether query parameters are accessible in the Web Query Builder. - UriJsonSource.PathParameters property
Allows you to customize requests to JSON web service endpoints at runtime. - Application Deployment topic in WinForms and WPF
Describes how you can add the Newtonsoft.Json.dll library to your deployed application and allow end users to generate JSON Data Sources. - Node, JsonNode and JsonSchemaNode classes
Allows you to define JSON data source schema. - JsonDataSource.FillAsync method
Populates a JSON Data Source in an individual task asynchronously. - XRLabel.AllowMarkupText property
Newly supported tags: sub/sup and font. - XRChart.CustomizeStackedBarTotalLabel and XRChart.CustomizePieTotalLabel events
Shows you how to customize text in stacked bar and pie total labels.
Your Feedback Counts
We’re now collecting our customers’ feedback regarding the Web Report Designer Actions Panel to determine whether we need to enhance this user interface element. Please submit your feedback to the short survey in our previous blog post if you are using our Web Report Designer: Web Report Designer - Actions Panel Survey.