Release History

What’s New

Report Server

• Provided support to find the current version from the help menu.
• Exposed API to get user token using embed secret key.
• Provided support for administrators to make any reports as Public/Private.
• Provided support to embed reports into your application with enhanced security.

Report Designer

• Provided matrix report item support to visualize data in cross-table.
• Provided the Web API data source, which supports connecting almost all web services that has a REST API interface.
• Provided the OData data source, which supports connecting the OData web services using the REST API.
• Provided the JSON data source to connect and fetch the JSON data from sources like external file, local file, and inline data.
• Improved the XML data source support.
• Provided an option to upgrade the report’s RDL schema version.
• Provided label support for the gauge report item.
• Provided filtering support for linear gauge, radial gauge, and indicator report items.
• Dynamically specifies the size of the indicator report item through expressions using scale factor property of the indicator states.

Report Viewer

• Renders chart data point labels with combined keywords.
• Provided options to disable chart legend interaction.
• Improved the expression parser for VB constants, NOT operator, and replace function.
• Exports data bar item with proper cell borders inside the table cell.
• The drill-through action enabled inside the nested item.
• The chart rendered with grouped data’s inside the table groups.
• Renders Line report item with proper border width.
• Improved the repeat header and row heights behavior in the table.
• Dynamically specifies the size of the indicator report item through expressions using
  scale factor property of the indicator states.
• Provided auto calculation support of maximum and interval value for the gauge report item.

Report Writer

• Improved the word export to handle the empty spaces.
• Header values of the excel export rendered correctly.

Improvements

Report Server

• Displayed user avatar based on first name and last name instead of displaying default avatar.

Report Designer

• Resolved the padding property serialization issue in text box.
• Resolved the context menu items hidden when context menu height overflow with window height.
• Resolved the exception when saving the report into reporting service to serialize with value of SpaceAfter and SpaceBefore properties.
• Now, properly represent the toggle query switcher state when switching to code mode from the design mode.
• Property panel improvement for indicator states. Refer to the documentation link here for quick getting started.

What’s New

Report Server

• Provided the support to embed reports into your application with enhanced security.
• Improved our scheduler service to auto adjust based on daylight saving time.
• Enhanced our localization to support 10 languages.

Report Designer

• Enabled an option to set font properties in report item common properties.
• Provided the writing mode property support for text box report item.
• The tablix row height resizing issue has been fixed.

Report Viewer

• Renders text with rotation.
• Detailed error displayed in dialog.
• Renders reports with millions of records.
• Linear gauge pointers are displayed with correct values.
• Nested tables render with large data.
• Allows to change connection string from code behind.
• Chart axis label displayed without overlapping.