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Create Drill-Down Reports

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Create Drill-Down Reports

  • Feb 18, 2026
  • 2 minutes to read

This tutorial describes how to create a drill-down report. Clicking a link in such a report displays the previously hidden detailed information in the same report:

Tip

The created report is platform-agnostic and its interactive features are supported by the Print Preview available for all application platforms.

Do the following to create a drill-down report:

  1. Create a master-detail report using Detail Report bands.

  2. Drop a label onto the report’s detail band. Clicking this label should expand or collapse the hidden report details.

  3. Select the detail report band by clicking its header and expand the drop-down menu for the band’s DetailReportBand.DrillDownControl property in the Properties window.

  4. Click this label’s smart tag and select the Expression property.

Note

If you save the report in the Document Viewer to a .prnx file, all the interactive features of the report are lost, because the .prnx file is just a finished document.