Web Report Designer in Bold Reports®
The Bold Reports® Web Report Designer is a web-based reporting tool that you use to create and edit RDL (Report Definition Language) standard reports. The Web Report Designer comes with a wide range of report items to transform data into information. You build reports with the help of the following features.
What are the key features of the Web Report Designer?
The Bold Reports® Web Report Designer provides the following key features for designing RDL reports.
Data sources: The Web Report Designer supports commonly used data sources such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, OLEDB, ODBC, Web API, OData, JSON, and XML.
Built-in query builder: The query builder provides a convenient user interface that helps both technical and non-technical users create and view relationships between tables.
Report items: The Web Report Designer provides a rich set of report items like text box, image, line, rectangle, table, list, matrix, more than 20 chart types, sub reports, and barcodes for clear visualization of your data.
Interactive design surface: You arrange report items on the Web Report Designer surface using drag-and-drop operations. Grid lines and snap-to-grid options make positioning and aligning report items easier.
Report parameters: You can create report parameters to specify the data to filter in a report, connect related reports together, and vary report presentation.
Image manager: The image manager lets you add and manage embedded images in a report. Embedding an image ensures the image is always available to a report.
Property panel: The property panel lets you customize the appearance of report items and edit their property values. You can specify static values or expressions as values in the report item properties.
Interactive reports: You can create a report with interactive features provided by RDL reports, such as drill-through and drill-down, to display data and information in detail.
Manipulate your data: You can manipulate data with a rich set of features such as sorting, filtering, grouping, and calculated fields.
Built-in expression editor: You can create simple and complex RDL reporting expressions. The expression editor supports constants, built-in fields, parameters, data sets, variables, operators, common functions, and more.
Embedded custom code: The Web Report Designer supports embedding Visual Basic and .NET code directly within report layouts.