Report Editor - Controls

Controls are tools for adding graphic or text information into the report. To add a control to the report need to select a needed item from the list of controls by mouse, and drag it into the required region of the report.

Any control can be changed by Property Inspector. You can modify the content, the form, the condition of printing and many others properties.

• Field - renders data from the datasource cursor.

Here are listed controls that print a single item on the rendered report. These controls do not depend on dataset.

• Ellipse - renders an ellipse shape.
• Label - renders a text label.
• Line - renders a line.
• Rectangle - renders a rectangle.
• Shape - renders a shape (e.g. star, arrow, …) from a pre-defined library.

• Page Break - adds a page break.

Here are listed controls that are associated with different types of report data.

• BarCode - renders a barcode.
• Chart - renders a 2D/3D chart.
• HTML - renders into report using HTML 2.0 input, which can come from URL or from database.
• Picture - renders picture that can come from project or from database.

• SubReport - allows to insert one report into another.

• Table - renders records from the specified query in a table layout - NEW in 6.4.

Here are listed controls that produce text.

• Expression – very important control, which allows you to build quite complex expressions that can use data from a dataset of report.
• Summary – renders expression field with SUM function.

• Date – renders the current date.
• Time – renders the current time.
• DateTime – renders the current date and time.

• Page Number – renders the current page number.
• Total Pages – renders the total number of pages.

• Record Number – renders the current record number.
• Total Records – renders the total number of records in the dataset.

Starting with the version 8.3.3 the control placed on the scene can be converted to other types of controls.

For controls for which the conversion is available Convert to menu item is added in the context menu:

There are following conversion options available (the list of actual options depends on the control type):

• Field - CheckBox - converts to the checkbox field.
• Field - Label - converts to ordinary textual field label
• Field - Picture - converts to the picture control which shows the picture from field
• Expression - converts to the expression control
• Summary - converts to the summary control
• HTML - converts to the HTML control
• Label - converts to the label control
• Picture - converts to the picture control