Chapter 13. Working with Report Items

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Data Regions, Containers, and Independent Report Items

• Report Designer’s Toolbox

• Line Report Item

• Rectangle Report Item

• Image Report Item

• Textbox Report Item (Improved in 2008)

• Tablix (New in 2008) = Table, Matrix, List

• Practical Application of Report Items

• Chart Report Item (Improved in 2008)

• Practical Application of a Chart

• Gauge Report Item

• Report Body Versus Page Header/Footer

Now that this book has covered what is necessary to retrieve data, let’s move on to designing reports. This chapter goes into the Toolbox (literally and figuratively) and discusses the various controls used for building reports and the resulting Report Definition Language (RDL). Toward ...

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