Control Toolbox

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Control Toolbox

 

Control Toolbox

The Control Toolbox lists all available controls and allows you to add them to your report.

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Available Controls

The available report controls can be divided into the following categories:

General Content

The following controls are most commonly used to display data in a report.

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Barcode

Check Box

Gauge

Label

Character Comb

Picture Box

Rich Text

Table

Extended Data

The following controls are connected to data individually, without accessing a report's data source.

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Chart

Pivot Grid

Sparkline

Report Layout

The following controls allow you to draw shapes in a report and customize the report layout.

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Cross-Band Line

Cross-Band Box

Line

Page Break

Panel

Shape

Subreport

Document Statistics

The dynamic content of the following controls is not obtained from a data source.

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Page Info

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Add a Control to a Report

To add a control from the Toolbox, do one of the following.

Double-click an item in the Toolbox for the appropriate control, which will be created at the Detail band's top left corner.

 

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Select an item in the Toolbox, and then click the required location within a report.

Select an item in the Toolbox, and then indicate the bounding rectangle by holding the left mouse button.

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Select the RDCTB24 Pointer item when you need to perform selection, re-positioning or resizing operations. It is automatically selected

Drag and drop an item from the Toolbox onto the required location within a report after you drop a control onto a report.