Using the Report Designer Toolbox

How to use the Report Designer Toolbox

FormsPro Report Designer uses DevExpress tools to create reports. For detailed information about DevExpress, see DevExpress Documentation.

The Toolbox is located on the left-hand side of the design surface. It lists all available controls and allows you to add them to your report by dragging the item from the toolbox onto your report area.

FormsPro provides many of these controls automatically with your report, and you won’t need to use most of these for most of your reporting needs, except for special circumstances.

	Adds a label to your report. FormsPro Tip: Use to add extra headers that you want printed that you don’t have on your form, or if you accidently delete a label.
	Adds a checkbox to your report. From the Properties menu, set the checkbox’s state: Unchecked, Checked, or Indeterminate.
	Adds the rich text control to your report to display formatted text. FormsPro Tip: Use when you have extra instructions for reading a report that aren’t needed for the completing of a form. You can add rich text to your report.
	Adds a picture box to your report to display images. From the Properties menu, Report Tasks category, use the Image Source or Image URL property to specify the image to display in the picture box. FormsPro Tip: Use this only to add a static image to the report, such as a logo or special certification icon. The image you add is displayed on every report. If you need to add an image field from your form, use the Add Field button from the main toolbar, which creates the sub-report and bands needed to display images captured on the form.
	Adds a panel to your report. The panel control is a container that frames separate report controls and allows you to move, copy, and paste them to keep them together.
	Adds a table to your report. FormsPro Tip: You can add a table over your existing tables to assist with the dynamic growth of rows based on longer fields.
	Adds a character comb to your report. The character comb control displays text so that each character is printed in an individual cell.
	Adds a line to your report. The line control draws a line in a specified direction, style, width, and color. Use it to decorate and visually separate report sections.
	Adds a shape to your report. From the Properties menu, Report Tasks category, use the Shape property to select the shape type to add to the report.
	Adds a barcode to your report.
	Adds a chart to your report.
	Adds a gauge to your report. The gauge control allows you to embed graphical gauges into your report. From the Properties menu, Report Tasks category, set up a gauge’s appearance.
	Adds a sparkline to your report. The sparkline control illustrates the data flow for every row in a report.
	Adds a pivot grid to your report. A pivot grid summarizes large amounts of data that can be sorted, grouped, and filtered.
	Adds a sub-report to your report. The sub-report control is used to embed other reports into the current report.
	Renders PDF content in your report. From the Properties menu, Report Tasks category, specify the source or source URL for the pdf content. The pdf content is provided on separate pages and uses its own page settings.
	Adds a visual signature to a report exported to PDF.
	Adds a table of contents to your report header. If the report does not contain a report header, it is created automatically so that the table of contents can be added to it.
	Adds page information to your report. From the Properties menu, Report Tasks category, defined the type of page information to display, such as date, time, page numbers and username.
	Inserts a page break in your report.
	Adds a cross-band line to your report. Use this control to highlight a report area that consists of different bands. FormsPro Tip: Use the Add Fields button in the main toolbar to add sub-reports. These create all the bands automatically for you.
	Adds a cross-band box to your report. Use this control to encompass a report section that includes multiple band areas.