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Textbox Properties Dialog Box - General Tab (Visual Studio Report Designer)

Use the General tab of the Textbox Properties dialog box to define general options for the text box. The following table describes the other tabs in the Textbox Properties dialog box.

Topic Description

Textbox Properties - Data Output Tab (Visual Studio Report Designer)

Use this page to specify XML data output options (note that XML data output is not supported for client report definition files).

Textbox Properties - Font Tab (Visual Studio Report Designer)

Use this page to specify font properties of the string that appears in the text box.

Textbox Properties - Format Tab (Visual Studio Report Designer)

Use this page to set data formatting properties on the text box.

Textbox Properties - Navigation Tab (Visual Studio Report Designer)

Use this page to define links actions on the text box.

Textbox Properties - Interactive Sort (Visual Studio Report Designer)

Use this page to configure a column for interactive sorting by allowing a user to click the column heading to sort data according to the values in that column.

Textbox Properties - Visibility Tab (Visual Studio Report Designer)

Use this page to specify whether the text box is visible. You can also set properties that configure the text box as a toggle item to selectively show or hide additional areas of the report.

Options

  • Name
    Type a name for the text box. The name must be unique within the report.
  • Tooltip
    Type a ToolTip or an expression that evaluates to a ToolTip. Click the expression (fx) button to edit the expression. The value of ToolTip will appear when the user pauses the pointer over the text box in an HTML report.
  • Repeat report item with data region on every page
    Choose this option to show the text box with a data region each time the data region appears on a page. This is useful for headings or descriptive text that should appear with the data region on each page of the report.
  • Data region
    Type or select the data region with which to repeat the text box on every page that the data region appears.
  • Value
    Type the value of the text box. This can be a field expression, other expression, or label. Click the expression (fx) button to edit the expression.
  • Hide duplicates
    Choose this option to display only the first instance of a value when the text box repeats in a data region. For example, if a data table returns the same product name for several rows, only the first instance of the product name appears.
  • Containing group or dataset
    Type a group or dataset, or an expression that evaluates to a group or data table, in which to hide duplicate names. Click the expression (fx) button to edit the expression.

See Also

Concepts

Adding Text Boxes to a Report (Visual Studio Report Designer)
Using Expressions in a Report (Visual Studio Report Designer)
ReportViewer Controls (Visual Studio)
ReportViewer Web Server and Windows Forms Controls

Other Resources

Report Designer User Interface Reference (Visual Studio)