Release History

Report Viewer Weekly NuGet

• The tablix report item static headers are repeated properly on each page.
• Image report item border thickness applied properly in view and export.
• Improved the chart engine processing and rendering performance.
• Improved tablix rendering to reset page number when page break applied to groups.

Licensing

• TLS1.2 support has been enabled in our licensing server and online licensing validationsystem. Hereafter our Bold Reports® components in framework .NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.6, UWP and ASP.NET Core
  platforms will be accessing our TLS1.2 enabled licensing server.
• .NET Framework 4.0 alone will be accessing TLS1.0 (Or) 1.1 server.

Report Viewer Weekly NuGet

• Improved text box number format in Excel cell.
• Provided custom property “RoundLayoutMeasures” to control the pixel values rendering.
• Added Semitransparent color palette for chart report item.
• Improved the calculated fields to work with parameter expressions.
• Now, the page setting is applied properly when set through API.

Report Viewer Weekly NuGet

• Provided DateTime formatting for Excel cell values.
• Renders report properly when the service instance is auto-scaled in the UWP app.
• Text contents are displayed properly when CanGrow is set for the textbox report item.
• Page setup margin values applied properly when set through API.

Report Viewer Weekly NuGet

• Print option in Report Viewer toolbar is displayed on all devices.
• Page setup dialog values are properly updated in refresh action.
• Report page counts remain the same when refreshing the page multiple times.
• Tablix row heights are rendered properly when refreshing the report.

Report Viewer Weekly NuGet

• Renders doughnut and radar charts with all data intervals.
• Table bottom border now displayed in view and export document.
• Document exports with proper colors when conditionally change the colors usingexpressions.
• The chart axis labels rendered properly with DateTime formatting.
• The page setup dialogue displayed relative the control in all browsers.
• Now the toggle action working properly in the excel exported file.
• Table cell value text is vertical alignment properly in rendering and export.
• The default parameter values are processed properly in en-GB culture.

Report Viewer Weekly NuGet

• Table row text rendered properly when split into multiple pages.
• PDF export format shows textbox data without text cut.
• Tablix header text displayed properly in the Firefox browser rendering.
• Refresh action no longer increases the page count in virtualization mode.
• Now, the report item border properly displayed in the print layout.

Breaking Changes

.NET Core 3.0 support was removed for all our NuGet packages due to the end of support from Microsoft.

What’s New

Report Server – Enterprise

• Provided support to configure Bold Reports Server with MySQL database.

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 while copying report.
• Exposed APIs to perform CRUD operation on items(report, data source and dataset) using name or report path.

Report Designer

• Provided the CSV data source to connect and fetch the data from external file source.
• Provided the Excel data source support.
• Provided the Data Matrix and PDF417 types in barcode report item.
• Provided custom color palette support, to set custom colors for the chart.
• Provided reordering support for data sources and data sets.
• Added the RenderFormat.IsInteractive and RenderFormat.Name expressions in expressiondialog box.
• Provided an option to configure the data element properties for the report items.
• Exposed an API to load custom fonts to the font family property.
• Exposed API’s to programmatically add, remove, and update parameters in the report.
• Exposed API’s to programmatically get the list of data set, data source, and parametersfrom the report.

Report Viewer

• Allows to customize the parameters using custom properties.
• Provides support to use PDF417 and Data Matrix types in barcode item
• Added export setting option to manage export document types.
• Renders images from the shared locations.
• Displays gauge with multiple pointers and ranges.
• Provides option to access the hidden and internal parameter details.
• Renders the texts in vertical rotation in WPF.
• Process and renders the nested aggregate expressions.
• Enabled option to hide duplicate static text in the text box.
• Supports to use parameter as argument in custom code functions.
• Improved the gauge pointers placement using expression values.
• Improved the error logging for report processing failures.
• Tablix renders with dynamic column names.
• Improved the query processing to use the local scalar variable in data set queries.
• Displays the report items with hidden expression.
• Improved visualization elements export text in cloud environment.
• Supports to view chart with custom label color.
• Improved tablix row groups page name behavior to export properly in excel sheet.

Report Writer

• Exports the data visualization items in Linux OS.
• The DisableExcelCellFormat custom property provided to improve the excel exportperformance.
• Displays detailed log about the data source connection failures.

Improvements

Report Designer

• Improved data loading performance and implemented logger for the PostgreSQL dataconnector.
• Resolved the issue when connecting to MariaDB SkySQL using the MySQL data provider.

Report Viewer

• Improved data loading performance and implemented logger for the PostgreSQL dataconnector.
• Improved the UI rendering of the Map, Circular Gauge, and Linear Gauge widgets with our Essential JS 2 controls in our
  previous releases (v2.2.23, v2.2.28). So,
  we are removing the below no longer used data-visualization scripts from our JavaScript assets.
  • ej.map.min.js
  • ej.lineargauge.min.js
  • ej.circulargauge.min.js

Breaking Changes

Renamed the SQL data connector as Microsoft SQL.

What’s New

General

• Provided Theme Studio to customizethe Bold Reports control theme.
• Provided support for .NET 5.0.
• Provided offline license support to access embed our controls without connecting to theinternet.

Report Server – Enterprise

• Exposed an API to copy report from one category to another.
• Provided localization support for Turkish locale (tr-TR).

Report Server – Cloud

• Provided concierge support to create support tickets from Bold Reports Cloud itself.
• Exposed an API to copy report from one category to another.

Report Designer

• Provided PostgreSQL data source support to connect the PostgreSQL data to the report.
• Provided Bootstrap 4 theme support.
• Provided an option to expand and collapse the report item panel.
• Provided an API to show and hide the shared data option.
• Report Designer is now upgraded and supports Jquery latest version 3.5.1.
• Exposed an event “beforeParameterAdd” to customize the parameter block in preview.
• Provided an option to filter distinct values in report parameters.
• Provided an option to set a name for the page of each report item and their groups.

Report Viewer

• Supports jQuery latest version 3.5.1.
• Provided Bootstrap 4 theme support.
• Renders custom report items in ASP.NET Core.
• Displays detailed log about the shared dataset and data source failures.
• View charts with pacific color palette.
• Enabled options to view parameters with unique values.
• Able to customize the Report Viewer Web API service post action end points.
• Allows to get exported report stream in ASP.NET Core API service.
• Displays the report items based on RenderFormat expressions.
• Allows to increase the render quality of chart report items.
• Customize date time display format of DateTime report parameter.
• Rotate and view images using the angle option.
• View charts with week intervals.
• Limit the number of table records on pages.
• Allows to localize the component in tr-TR and it-IT cultures.
• Improved gauge report item rendering performance.
• The default extension of Word (.doc) and Excel (.xls) export documents are upgraded to newversion Word(.docx) and Excel(.xlsx) extension.

Report Writer

• Export report text with italic Tahoma Thai fonts.
• BMP images can be exported to PDF in ASP.NET Core platform.
• Allows to increase the render quality of chart report items.
• The default extension of Word (.doc) and Excel (.xls) export documents are upgraded to newversion Word(.docx) and Excel(.xlsx) extension.

Improvements

Report Server – Enterprise

• Provided support to configure the default site name.
• Provided offline license support to access without connecting to the internet.

Report Server – Cloud

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

Report Designer

• Resolved the parameter serialization issue in stored procedure with null and blank values.
• When saving the data set, the redundant showing of query parameter dialog is fixed.
• Suppressed the confirmation dialog box when setting the RDL report version using API.