The Image report control displays an image that you embed in a report, add to a Visual Studio project, store in a database, access through a URL or access in ActiveReports Server. You can choose an Image Source in the Properties window after you place the Image report control on a report. For more information, see Working with Images.
Properties for the Image are available in the Image dialog. To open it, with the Image control selected on the report, under the Properties Window, click the Property dialog link.
The Image dialog lets you set properties on the report control with the following pages.
General
Name: Enter a name for the image that is unique within the report. This name can be called in code.
Tooltip: Enter a string or expression that you want to appear when a user hovers the cursor over the image in the viewer at run time.
Image Value: Enter the name of the image to display. Depending on the Image Source chosen below, you can give a path to the image, select an image to embed, pull images from a database, or access shared images stored on ActiveReports Server.
This property also allows you to choose the <Data Visualizer...> option to launch a dialog that will let you build a data visualization expression.
Image Source: Select whether the image comes from a source that is External, Embedded, or Database.
MIME Type: Select the MIME type of the image chosen.
Visibility
Initial visibility
Visibility can be toggled by another report control: Select this check box to display a toggle image next to another report control. This enables the drop-down box below where you can specify the TextBox control that toggles the visibility of the image. The user can click the toggle item to show or hide this image.
Navigation
Select one of the following actions to perform when a user clicks on this image.
None: The default behavior is to do nothing when a user clicks the image at run time.
Jump to report: For drill-through reporting, select this option and provide the name of a local report, the relative path of a report in another folder, or the full path of a report on another server.
Parameters: Supply parameters to the targeted report by entering the Name of each parameter, the Value to send to the targeted report, or whether to Omit the parameter. Note that parameter names you supply must exactly match parameters in the target report.
Tip: You can remove or change the order of parameters using the X and arrow buttons.Jump to bookmark: Select this option and provide a valid Bookmark ID to allow the user to jump to the report control with that Bookmark ID.
Jump to URL: Select this option and provide a valid URL to create a hyperlink to a Web page.
Document map label: Enter an expression to use as a label to represent this item in the table of contents (document map).
Bookmark ID: Enter an expression to use as a locator for this image. You will then be able to provide a bookmark link to this item from another report control using a Jump to bookmark action.