Release History

Report Viewer Weekly NuGet

• Excel export data formatting applied properly based on region formats.
• Images are rendering properly when load from SSRS server.
• Report Viewer toolbar drop-down element styles are applied properly in office-365 theme.

Report Viewer Weekly Nuget

• Provided the option to set parameter visibility at run-time.
• Resolved the data loss problem when table header cells are exported to Excel.
• Report Viewer events works properly with unobtrusive mode enabled.
• Added option to limit table records using custom property expression.

Report Viewer Weekly Nuget

• Resolved the BoldReports.Net.Core package version conflict problem while installing inthe NET 5.0 application.

Report Viewer Weekly Nuget

• Provided the dark theme support for UWP Report Viewer.
• Provided option to get report images in single request to overcome the azure scalingfailures.
• Improved the license validation handling in WPF .NET Core XAML design mode.
• Resolved the problem in handling long running AJAX service requests.

What’s New

Report Server – Enterprise

• Provided support to publish report from master site to other sites and synchronize those reports.
• Provided support to copy report from one category to another with different data source/dataset.
• Added activity logs to track the activities and report performance in the report server.
• Provided support to export report from listing page.
• Exposed an API to create report server tenant(site).

Report Designer

• Provided individual series type switcher support in the chart report item.
• Provided an option to set no rows message for report items.
• Provided label autofit property support for the primary and secondary axes of the chart.
• Provided refresh option support for shared dataset.
• Provided an option to set expressions for the username and password in the Web API data source.
• Provided meaningful error message details to the end-user based on the internal exceptions.

Report Viewer

• Provided the dark theme support for UWP Report Viewer.
• Provided option to get report images in single request to overcome the azure scaling failures
• Supports to customize the error text while using the show error event.
• Added en-AU culture support to format the date and time values.

Improvements

Report Server – Enterprise

• Provided support to rebrand the copyright info and powered by logo.
• Add user to group API – API can be accessed with its name.
• Show data source and dataset info in the Report info dialog.
• Scheduler dialog improvements,
  • Provided support to add multiple external recipient at a time.
  • Add Current date in the scheduler email template.
  • Configure the export file name.
  • Provided support to export the file in XML format.

Report Designer

• The failure in the report item size properties update action has been fixed when the report unit is in centimeters.
• Resolved date format validation failure based on locale in the parameter’s dialog.
• Removed improper global expressions from the expression list.
• Resolved default and available values reset issue with report parameters while linking dataset parameters.
• Moved chart series properties as a secondary panel in the properties panel.
• Resolved a memory leak issue with the barcode report item.

Report Viewer

• Resolved the problem in handling long running AJAX service requests.
• Now parameter values count expression working properly in ASP.Net Core.
• Improved the license validation handling in WPF .NET Core XAML design mode.
• Resolved the BoldReports.Net.Core package version conflict problem while installing in the NET 5.0 application.
• Visual Basic functions of report parameter is working properly in ASP.Net Core.
• The available export formats are working properly when render format name used in expressions.
• The page setup dialog values are applied or reset properly after clicking the cancel button.
• Excel documents are saved properly when change the extension in UWP using WEB API service.
• The parameter labels are applied properly while using label expressions.
• CSV document generated properly while using Date time formats.
• Background image set in subreport rendering properly in the parent report.
• The data fetching errors while using web API data source.
• The “getParameter” method returns proper value even though the parameter value is not selected in the report viewer
• Borders applied properly for merged cells in UWP report viewer.
• Client-side page settings properties passed properly to the server side processing.
• Image border thickness applied properly when placed inside the tablix cell.
• The page number is reset properly in rendered report.
• Improved the chart report item rendering performance.
• The line chart labels are rendering properly without any overlap.

What’s New

Report Server – Enterprise

• Username support has been added so that you can make email address as optional when creating a new user.
• Exposed API to copy reports with different dataset.
• Provided an option to choose the default login option for the Bold Reports application.
• Now, you can either send or save the exported report and notify the recepients.
• Complete UI improvements on create a Shared DataSource and DataSet.
• Provided option to create and update shared datasets based on the below data-connectors.
  • Microsoft SQL
  • Oracle
  • ODBC
  • OLE DB
  • Web API
  • OData
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MariDB
  • MemSQL
  • XML
  • JSON

Report Server – Cloud

• Provided support to connect to Web API data source.
• Provided an option to save as dataset with new data source.
• Provided support to change the dataset/data source while copying report.
• Exposed API to Export report in XML format.
• Exposed APIs to perform CRUD operation on items(report, data source and dataset) using name or report path.
• Complete UI improvements on create a Shared DataSource and DataSet.
• Provided option to create and update shared datasets based on the below data-connectors.
  • Microsoft SQL
  • Oracle
  • Web API
  • OData
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MariDB
  • MemSQL
  • XML
  • JSON

Report Designer

• Provided MemSQL data source support.
• Provided MariaDB data source support.
• Provided an option to set interval for category and value axis in the chart report item.
• Provided an option to set custom attributes for series in the chart report item.
• Provided document map label property support for report items.
• Added the Lookup and LookupSet expressions in expression dialog box.
• Provided support to format the date and time based on locale.
• Provided an option to set background image for rectangle report item.
• Provided search option to filter dataset fields in the drop-down.

Report Viewer

• Renders reports with document map label in view and export.
• Renders column and bar type charts with custom point width.
• Enabled column headers repeat when a table cell contains a rectangle report item.
• Allows to enable the virtualization rendering using API option at client side.
• Supports to log the report processing and execution information to audit the report.
• Provides the custom property option to set “ExcelLayoutOptions” to improve the excelexport performance.
• Exposed the “legendmaxautosize” custom property to control and customize the chartlegend size.
• Renders the table headers while scrolling the table content in report page.
• Improved the dependent report parameter loading indicator user interface.

Report Writer

• Support to export the reports with document map label for easy page navigation.
• Improved the date format text rendering in the excel document.
• Enabled the PowerPoint and HTML format exports in the UWP.
• Provided the execution logging support to audit the report export performance andexecution.
• Added HTML and PowerPoint formats export in the ASP.NET Core.

Improvements

Report Designer

• Resolved the improper serialization of the report parameter default value node inASP.NET Core.
• The failure in web data source assembly loading issue has been fixed, while deploying inASP.NET Core with docker container.
• The issue in maintaining format property value in tablix cell has been fixed.
• Resolved format and expression value reset issue, while changing the font style intablix cell.
• Resolved exception thrown issue, while passing the parameter value as headers in web APIdata source.
• The nullable property value reset action in report parameters has been fixed, whileediting the dataset.
• Resolved the child group add action failure in tablix when having single cell withdetails group.
• Resolved the positioning issue when placing a sub-report item in the list.
• Resolved the glitches when performing enter and backspace key actions in textbox reportitem.
• Resolved the exception thrown issue, while editing the data set after changing its datasource name.
• Added special character validation for data element name property.
• Resolved the tablix cell width resizing issue when changing width using the propertypanel.

Report Viewer

• Tablix column visibility calculated properly and rendered in the output.
• Improved chart series and intervals rendering.
• Renders doughnut, column, and radar charts with proper auto intervals.
• The chart axis labels displayed properly for DateTime formatting.
• Tablix row heights are rendered properly when refreshing the report.
• Page setup dialog values are properly updated in the report refresh action.
• Table bottom border now displayed in viewing and exporting.
• Renders stacked column chart with proper series and legend.
• The default parameter values are processed properly in en-GB culture.
• Improved the page setup dialog positioning in all browsers.
• Now, the toggle and sorting icon properly display with all background colors.
• Print option in the Report Viewer toolbar is displayed on all devices.
• Report output is printed correctly in the Blazor control.
• Now, the text values are rendered without unwanted overlap.
• Linked reports render correctly when providing absolute path.
• The printed document is rendered with the proper margin in the WPF print layout.
• Properly displays the empty table when the table has no data.
• Renders table, map, and custom report items in the virtualization mode.

Report Writer

• Documents are exported with proper conditional expression colors.
• Now, the toggle action and date filters are working properly in the excel exported file.
• PDF document exported properly with all colors in the ASP.NET Core.
• Improved the text box data render without text cut in the PDF document.
• PDF and PowerPoint document exports properly without any application crash.
• Nested table items are properly exported in PDF document.