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