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Release Notes for Embedded Reporting v5.3

Release History

5.3.13

Released on November 29, 2023

Improvements

Report Viewer

  • Fixed an issue where the Page Orientation UI was not updating correctly after resetting the page settings.
  • Fixed a style issue in the EJ1 Multiselect Dropdown List where the check-box would turn solid red.
  • Fixed the issue where the dynamic connection string with Parameter Expression was not connecting to SQL Server.
  • Resolved the issue where the header and footer were being printed in the Word export, even when the ‘printonfirst’ and ‘lastpage’ properties were disabled.

5.3.12

Released on November 22, 2023

Improvements

Report Viewer

  • Fixed an issue where disabling the ‘printonlastpage’ property resulted in the header and footer space not included in print mode.
  • Enabled the Auto storage provider in the distribution cache And Implemented the Auto storage provider in the distribution cache component.
  • Fixed an issue where enabling the ‘RoundLayoutMeasures’ API was not reflected on the WPF platform.

Report Designer

  • Provided Material theme support for Report Designer 2.0.

5.3.11

Released on November 20, 2023

Improvements

Report Viewer

  • Fixed an issue where disabling the ‘printonlastpage’ property still resulted in the header and footer being included in the PPT export.
  • Introduced an API to hide the parameter dropdown tooltip in the Viewer.
  • Fixed the issue where the report content positions would mismatch in print mode when the ‘printonlastpage’ property was disabled.
  • Added custom property support for enabling popup resize functionality.

5.3.10

Released on November 08, 2023

Improvements

Report Viewer

  • Text vertical alignment now functions properly when ‘can grow’ is set to false.
  • Resolved the parameter UI alignment issue when rendering through the classic UI in viewer v2.0
  • Resolved the issue where the chart’s secondary axis was created multiple times in the viewer.

5.3.9

Released on November 01, 2023

Improvements

Report Viewer

  • Fixed the issue with the count parameter value not functioning correctly for optional parameters.
  • Fixed an issue where the prompt message was appearing multiple times in the dialog box for optional parameters in the Report Viewer v2 UI.
  • Added support for exporting raw data of the dataset in Excel export.
  • Fixed the issue where the main report parameter value was not being set in the drill-through report.

5.3.8

Released on October 26, 2023

What’s New

Report Server

  • Provided support for reusing saved report items in other paginated reports using the report part feature.

Report Viewer

  • Provided material theme support for the new Report Viewer.
  • Optimized shared cache performance by limiting viewer service requests.
  • Provided an API to configure the custom font location.

Report Designer

  • Introduced an option to configure the secondary axis for chart report items.
  • Added tooltips to textbox expression tags, making it easier to view the actual expression.
  • Provided a UI option to configure the ‘Encrypt’ and ‘TrustServerCertificate’ options in the Microsoft SQL Server data connector.

General

Improvements

Report Viewer

  • Introduced auto-hide support for the floating toolbar by preventing content overlap during scroll.
  • Users will get auto-reload notifications when the report cache expired in the viewer service.
  • Resolved the issue with parameter dropdown item selection when items are selected through search.
  • Page scroll navigation now works properly on mobile devices.
  • Embedded image items now render properly in sub reports.
  • Resolved the issue with tooltip content hiding in the parameter panel when hovering.
  • Chart visualization export now works properly when viewer locale set to ‘fr-CA’.
  • The document map now updates properly when changing parameters.
  • Datetime values now render properly on charts category axis.
  • Specific report culture can be set through report custom property.
  • Boolean parameter checkboxes now function correctly in the parameter panel.
  • Images will be rendered and exported on all machines, including macOS and Linux.
  • The chart inside the Tablix will now be exported properly when virtualization mode enabled.
  • Headers and Footers now print properly when print the report.
  • Background images render properly for stretches and fits to the size case in PDF export.
  • Now the table sort functioning properly in the Angular Application.
  • Now, Linear Gauge is displaying in PDF export with PhantomsJS export.
  • Resolved performance issues related to parameter loading.
  • Fixed an issue with the ‘Select All’ and ‘Unselect All’ options in the multi-dropdown parameter for the new Report viewer.

Report Designer

  • Fixed the issue of anonymous auto-population in the query designer search field.
  • Resolved the improper serialization of the chart gridline interval offset property.
  • Renamed the ‘Visible’ property to ‘Hidden’ for the Tablix grouping panel in the property panel.
  • Resolved the issue with image scaling when using the ‘fit’ option for the background image.
  • Enabled expression options for chart axis label format property.
  • Categorized field names based on the table name in the query filter dropdown.
  • Fixed the issue with dropdown field selection when the query filter dropdown had identical field names.
  • Now, table names are prepended to parameter names while creating query parameters.
  • Upgraded the Snowflake.Data package from 2.0.20 to 2.1.1 to address random connection failures.

Breaking changes:

To support Multi-Factor Authentication, we have migrated to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient from System.Data.SqlClient.

  • The Microsoft.Data.SqlClient has breaking changes. To resolve this, you can either configure ‘Encrypt=false’ or ‘TrustServerCertificate=true’ in the connection string. For more information on breaking changes in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, refer to this link.

General

  • The inclusion of the Report Viewer and Report Designer’s new user interface components in the sample browser provides users with more intuitive and interactive reporting tools for a seamless experience. Explore it here