First Look at the Report Designer

• Feb 09, 2026

The Design Surface displays a report’s structure and contents. You can use the tools on the Report Designer’s panels to design the report:

• use the Menu to manage and set up reports;

• drop report controls from the Toolbox to the design surface;

• access report editing commands in the Main Toolbar;

• use the Properties panel to set up the report controls;

• use the Expressions panel to provide data to the report controls and conditionally shape data;

• access the report’s data source schema in the Field List panel;

• access the report’s elements in the Report Explorer panel.