Section Report Toolbox

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When a Section report has focus in Visual Studio, the ActiveReports 14 Section Report toolbox group offers a number of report controls that you can use when creating a section report. You can drag these from the toolbox and drop them onto your section reports. These tools are different than those in the Toolbox.

Note: Take care in naming report controls, as they are displayed to end users in the advanced search feature of the Viewer.

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Label: The label is used to display descriptive text for a control and helps the user to describe the data displayed in a report.
TextBox (Section Report): The text box is a basic reporting control that allows direct display and editing of unformatted text.
CheckBox (Page Report): The checkbox gives the user an option of yes or no and true or false.
RichTextBox: The rich text box control allows the user to enter rich text in the form of formatted text, tables, hyperlinks, images, etc.
Shape: The shape is a user interface element that allows to draw shapes on the screen.
Picture: This control displays images files on the screen and also performs functions like resizing and cropping of images being used.
Line (Section Report): The line visually draws boundaries or highlights specific areas of a report.
Page Break: The PageBreak control is used when you need to stop printing a report inside the selected section and resume it on a new page.
Barcode (Section Report): The BarCode control allows you to choose from several barcode styles available, and bind them to a data source.
SubReport (Section Report): Use the subreport control as a placeholder for data from a separate report. Use code to connect the separate report to the subreport control.
Ole Object: You can add an OLE object, bound to a database or unbound, directly to your report.
Note: The OleObject control is not displayed in the toolbox by default, because it is obsolete, and is only available for backward compatibility.
Chart: You can use the ChartControl for a graphical presentation of data in a report. There are numerous chart types that you can use to easily design and render data.
Report Info: The ReportInfo control allows you to quickly display page numbers, page counts and report dates.
Cross Section Controls: The CrossSectionLine and CrossSectionBox controls provide visual boundaries and highlight specific areas of your report that span multiple report sections. This CrossSectionLine control is a vertical line that starts in the header section and spans the intervening sections until it ends in the footer. (For a horizontal or diagonal line, use the Line control.) The CrossSectionBox control starts in the header section and spans any intervening sections to end in the related footer section.