xtrareports-118624-report-designer-for-visual-studio-dock-panels-report-gallery.md
The Report Gallery allows you to store and reuse reports and their elements.
Do not confuse the Report Gallery with the Report Explorer, which has a similar user interface. The Report Gallery stores shared templates. The Report Explorer displays the current report structure.
The Report Gallery displays report layout templates in the Reports category.
To create a new template, right-click an empty area around the design surface and select Add To Gallery in the context menu. The report’s Name property value defines the template name.
Do one of the following to apply a template to the current report:
Right-click the template in the Report Gallery and select Apply Layout to Report.
Drag and drop the template from the Report Gallery onto the report.
The following dialog warns you that the template overrides the current layout:
When you apply the report template, all associated styles and components are added to the current report as well.
The Report Gallery’s Bands category contains band templates.
To create a new template, right-click a report band and choose Add To Gallery in the context menu. The band’s Name property value defines the template name.
Use the following ways to apply a band template:
Drag and Drop
Gallery Context Menu
Note that the template stores settings related to the band and its controls (binding information, appearance options, etc.). These settings are restored when you apply the template.
You can combine report controls from the same band into a template. Hold down SHIFT or CTRL and select controls. Then, right-click the selection and choose Add To Gallery in the context menu.
This adds a new template to the Controls section. The template name consists of control names separated by commas.
To apply a control template, drag and drop it from the Report Gallery onto a band.
All control settings are restored when you apply the template.
Right-click a style in the Report Explorer and select Add To Gallery to create a new template in the Styles category.
Use the following ways to apply a style template:
To add the style to the report’s style sheet, right-click the style in the Report Gallery and select Add to Report Style Sheet.
To apply the style to a specific report control, drag and drop this style from the Report Gallery onto this control. This also adds the selected style to the report style sheet if it does not already contain this style.
Right-click a data source in the Report Explorer and select Add To Gallery to create a new template in the Data Sources category.
Do one of the following to apply a data source template:
Right-click the template in the Report Gallery and select Add to Report Components in the context menu.
Drag and drop the template from the Report Gallery onto the report.
The following data sources are supported:
The ObjectDataSource, EFDataSource, and XPO data sources are not supported because the Gallery repository is generic and one cannot guarantee that the type referenced by a particular data source is available in the application.
The FederationDataSource is not supported because it references other data sources and cannot work without them.
To change the template name, select Rename in the template’s context menu and type a new name.
Right-click a root Gallery node and select Add New Folder in the context menu.
Specify the folder name. Move templates to this folder to combine them into a group.
You can import gallery items from an XML file. Right-click the Import toolbar button, locate the file in the invoked Open dialog, and click OK.
To save gallery templates to an XML file, click the Export toolbar button and select a target file in the Save dialog.
The Report Gallery stores templates in the %localappdata%\Developer Express Inc\XtraReports Suite\ReportGallery.xml file.