Viewers
Besides previewing reports at design time, you can also view the reports you design in the Viewers. ActiveReports Viewers support technologies such as Blazor, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, Angular, React, HTML5/JS, WPF, and WinForms.
These lightweight Viewers allow you to easily view, print, and export reports. The viewers are highly interactive, providing users the ability to enter parameters, perform sorting and drill-down, navigate to other reports using drill-through links, add hyperlinks to external web pages, and so on.
The report viewers supported by ActiveReports for web and desktop applications are:
Desktop Viewers
- View reports quickly by running the application with the ActiveReports Viewer controls (WPF and Winforms).
- Support Annotations to change the colors, transparency, border, font, alignment, and other properties.
- Advanced report printing options to specify the printer and set options like page scale, page margins, and watermarks.
- Touch support to flexibly interact with the viewers using simple touch gestures.
- Customizable when used as a control.
Web Viewers
- View reports in Blazor, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, Angular, React, HTML5/JS, and other applications.
- Multiple View Modes to display the reports as Paginated, Continuous, or in Galley view.
- Built-in support for client-side printing to print the reports from the browser easily.
- Viewer API to customize the viewers and blend them into your web page.
- Add or hide features or buttons on the viewer toolbar and sidebar, customize the parameters panel, and so on.
- Export support to export any report type to the desired format (except the RDLX Dashboard report).
Interactive Features
ActiveReports Viewers support the below interactive features.
| Section Reports | Page/RDLX Reports | |
|---|---|---|
| Pan/Zoom/Copy | + | + |
| Bookmarks | + | + |
| Hyperlinks | + | + |
| Drill-through links | - | + |
| Search | + | + |
| Parameters | + | + |
| Dependant parameters | - | + |
| Annotations | + (Windows Forms Viewer only) | - |
| Sorting | - | + |
| Toggling | - | + |
| TOC | + | + |
| Thumbnails (WinForms/WPF) | + | + |
| Touch mode | + | + |
| Page navigation | + | + |
| Printing | + | + |
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Note: The JS Viewer component, the Blazor Viewer control, and the WebDesigner JS component require back end (available backends for ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core).
See Also
Report Authors
Interactivity in Page/RDLX Reports
Interactivity in Section Reports