The key features of ActiveReports Web Designer are as follows: 

Simple and intuitive designing

• The Snap lines on the design area help align controls.
• The ability to drag and drop controls onto the design area and within controls on the design area.
• Easy to understand and use properties.

Flexible data access

Make use of Shared or Semantic data sets, or create Embedded datasets. The shared datasets are useful when there are multiple reports depending on a single data set. When a shared data set gets modified, you can refresh it in a report that uses it. The embedded data sets are useful when the data source is to be used with single report.

Different Report Types
The ActiveReports Web Designer supports three types of reports - RDL Reports, that depend on the size of data for their layout, Page Reports, that are data independent and have pixel-perfect layout, and Semantic Reports, that depend on the Semantic data model. All these reports support adding subreports.

Ready-to-use Templates

You can select a template that has all the required report elements with formatting set up, and build a report on that.

Enhanced Themes and Styles

There are a number of themes and styles available for your report and controls on the report that lets you transform a plain report to a visually appealing one. The default styles are automatically applied to the controls that support style feature.

Intuitive previewing

The viewer options provide rich user experience as it lets you:

• use the sidebar panel to enter parameters and view table of contents in the report when applicable
• choose from different page view modes - Single page view to view reports page-wise, and continuous page view to view all pages in a scrollable frame.
• send reports by email
• take print of reports
• export to different other formats.

Export to multiple formats

You can export your reports to several formats such as Excel file (xlsx), MHT document (archived Web page), Image file, PDF document, Word document, XML file (xml), or CSV file (csv).