We have made a number of changes and added new features since the last version of ActiveReports. Following are some of the major highlights of this release.
Now in Page and RDL reports, you can use the LookupSet function to display all matching data for a specified name in a dataset with name and value pairs.
Improved JS Viewer performance includes the following features.
We have introduced two new chart types to the Chart control of Page/RDL reports – Polar and Spiral. The new charts are available in the ActiveReports Web Designer or End User Designer.
In your RDL report, you can have collapsible rows in the Excel exported file.
The new property EnableToggles allows to export collapsible rows in the detail and row groups of the Table control. The EnableToggles property appears in the Export menu when the Pagination property is set to False. The default value is False.
The new Tooltip Template property allows to select a value from the list of predefined tooltip templates in the ActiveReports Web Designer or End User Designer. The new chart tooltips are displayed in JS Viewer and HTML5 Viewer.
The Table control in Page and RDL reports now supports the vertical merge of cells. You can merge cells in the vertical direction inside the Table's section (Header, Group Header, Footer, Group Footer, and Detail) when creating a report in ActiveReports Designer and ActiveReports Web Designer.
With this feature, you can combine multiple Page and RDL reports into one report, one after the another. You can then preview and export the combined report to any exportable format.
ActiveReports now supports Ideographic Variation Sequences (IVS). The IVS characters can be viewed in any viewer or at run-time in the Win and Web designers; and can be exported to any exportable format.
The PDF Export in ActiveReports now supports Devanagari characters with fonts such as Arial Unicode MS, Nirmala UI, and Mangal, which contain Devanagari glyphs.
An improved PDF Font Factory allows to embed end-user defined characters (EUDCs) in PDF by modifying the web.config settings. The information that you set for the end-user defined characters (EUDCs) in the web.config file will override the registry setting at the Azure Web Application deployment.
This feature works with both ExportFilter and RenderingExtension and is part of the Professional Edition.
ActiveReports 13 is now fully integrated into the new Visual Studio 2019 IDE.
ActiveReports now provides new generation viewer which is built on JavaScript library. Following advantages of JS Viewer can be noted in comparison to HTML5 Viewer:
Web Designer is now available as component in ActiveReports. Now you can embed Web Designer into any web application to create and edit reports effortlessly.
The ActiveReports now presents new Chart control that provides ease of data visualization through encodings. The encodings map the data values to graphical representations and make charts more effective and visually understandable.
The ActiveReports Import tool now allows you to convert Section reports to Page reports, in addition to RDL report which is already supported.
The improved RichTextBox control now supports more tags and attributes. The other enhancement is that you can edit the HTML data in RichTextBox directly as now the control displays the HTML markup when you put it in the edit mode.
The FormattedText control has also undergone improvements and now supports more tags and attributes. Moreover, the FormattedText control now displays the formatting of the html text directly in the Designer tab, thus you can immediately see what the text will look like at run time.
Now if you select a theme for your Visual Studio, this theme is automatically applied to the integrated ActiveReports Designer. The Visual Studio theme is extended to such ActiveReports Designer elements as Reports Library, Layer List, Report Explorer and Group Editor. This improvement works for all reports (Page, RDL, and Section) opened in Visual Studio 2012 or higher.
A new CSV export option, NoHeader, is now available that allows to export a report to CSV without the default CSV header. The option is set to False by default.
An improved CSV Data Source dialog provides the URL support of the CSV data provider. You can enter a valid CSV file URL address into the Path option of the dialog.