This section briefly describes the steps involved in download and installation of the Standalone Report Designer setup.
Go to Standalone Report Designer Home page and click Try it now
.
Register with a new account or sign in with an existing account.
On sign-in you will be redirected to Bold Reports® Cloud site. Click on the profile icon at the top right corner and select View account
.
You will be redirected to the accounts page.
Expand the Downloads & Keys
section and select Downloads
.
Under Standalone Report Designer, select the file type and click Download
.
After downloading the setup file, double-click the EXE in its saved location to start the installation.
Sign in with your registered email address to unlock the setup.
Accept the license agreement of Standalone Report Designer by clicking the License Terms and Conditions
.
Note :
- For versions below 10.x.x: You will encounter a consent window titled
Consent to install CefSharp binaries and dependencies
. Please carefully read and accept the terms presented. Once you have done so, kindly clickNext
to proceed with the installation.- For versions 10.x.x and above: The CefSharp dependency is no longer required due WebView2 based implementation.
Choose the location where you would like to install the Standalone Report Designer setup and click Install
.
Read and accept the license to ship the selected client libraries, then click Install
.
The installation will now begin. You can cancel the installation at any time by clicking Cancel
, if you prefer.
Upon successful installation, the following screen will appear. Click Launch Application
to start the program.
After installing the setup, two separate launchers will be added to your desktop: Bold Reports Designer
and Bold Reports RDLC Designer
. These are used for creating and editing RDL and RDLC reports, respectively.
After downloading the setup file, double-click the EXE in its saved location to start the installation.
For offline installation, unlock the setup using an offline key. If you don’t have the setup unlock key, click the here
option as shown in the image below to download it.
This will redirect you to the Bold Reports® downloads page.
Expand the Downloads & Keys
section and select Claim License Key
.
To download the unlock key file, expand the Get Unlock Key File
accordion, select the Standalone Report Designer
tab, and click the Download Unlock Key File
button to download a file with the .lic
extension.
To unlock the setup, upload the downloaded .lic
file. Then, check the box to accept the license terms and conditions and click Next.
Follow steps 4 to 7 as described in the Online Installation section.
Using the Bold Reports RDL Designer
, one can design RDL standard reports (.rdl). On the other hand, Bold Reports RDLC Designer
can be used to design RDLC standard reports (.rdlc). Both RDL and RDLC reports follow the same XML schema format. A detailed difference between RDL and RDLC designers are tabulated as follows.
RDL Designer | RDLC Designer |
---|---|
It supports to design the 2008, 2010, and 2016 schema versions of Report Definition Language (RDL) report. The connection string and query details are stored within the report in the form of data source and data set | It supports to design the 2008, 2010, and 2016 schema versions of Report Definition Language Client-side (RDLC) report. This format contains only meta-information of data set fields |
It provides the in-build data connectors such as SQL, Oracle, OLEDB, ODBC, XML, and Rest API data sources. Report data are processed by the in-build connectors using the connection string and query details, which is stored in the respective RDL report | It does not have any in-build data connectors, instead requires to manually build the data set fields and pass the data information to process the report |
The RDL reports are ready to be published and uploaded to a SQL Reporting Server or Bold Report Server | The RDLC reports are not suitable for server-side publishing and processing |
The RDL designer is recommended for user who wants to publish reports into server and access them from multiple application using the single point (server) | The RDLC designer is recommended for user who wants to maintain the copy of the report definition in application and pass data from application level to process report |
The user can go with both RDL and RDLC designers for different purpose. The RDL designer is recommended for users who wants to publish reports into server and access them from multiple application using the single point (server). The RDLC designer is recommended for users who wants to maintain the copy of the report in application and pass data from application level to process report.