Toolbar

• Aug 18, 2023
• 2 minutes to read

The Report Designer Toolbar includes the Home , Layout , Page , and View tabs for general commands as well as contextual tabs for commands relating to the selected report controls.

Home Tab

Use commands in this tab to

• load and save report layouts;
• add data sources, calculated fields, and report parameters;
• delete the selected report elements, place them on the clipboard and paste them onto report bands;
• customize font, color, formatting and alignment settings;
• create new styles based on the selected control’s appearance settings and then apply the created styles to other controls.

Layout Tab

This tab provides commands that

• align report elements to each other or the snap grid;
• change the report element size relative to other report elements and to fit the snap grid or the parent container;
• change the stacked elements’ order;
• select the snapping mode.

Page Tab

These commands allow you to

• set the page margins, orientation, and paper size;
• specify the page’s background color;
• add watermark text to a report or turn a picture into a report’s background.

View Tab

This tab enables you to

• turn on/off export and print warnings to highlight intersecting controls and controls placed outside page margins;
• display the document’s watermark on the design surface.
• specify whether to draw the snap grid.

Contextual Tabs

Contextual tabs are visible whenever you select a specific report element and provide commands applicable to the selected element’s type.

The following image demonstrates the table cell’s available tabs: