Edit Content in Print Preview
This document provides information about interactive document editing in Print Preview that enables you to customize field values directly in a previewed document before printing or exporting it.
Content Editing Overview
When content editing is enabled for a report control (either unbound or data-aware), it is possible to customize the corresponding field values in Print Preview.
To enable content editing for a report control, expand its EditOptions property and set the Enabled property to true.
When the EditOptions.Enabled property is set to true and the EditOptions.ReadOnly property is disabled, the control’s content can be edited in Print Preview (clicking a field will invoke the appropriate editor).
The following standard editors can be assigned to a control, depending on the kind of content it displays.
| Memo Edit | Check Box |
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To highlight all editing fields available in a document, click the Editing Fields button on the Print Preview toolbar. This button is disabled when there are no such fields in a document.
To navigate between editing fields in Print Preview, use the TAB and SHIFT+TAB keys.
Content Editing Specifics
When enabling content editing in your report, consider the following.
- The changes made to a control’s content in Print Preview have no effect on other parts of the document (e.g., the related summary results, grouping, sorting, bookmarks and other settings that have already been processed before generating the document).
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A contol’s CanGrow setting is ignored for editing fields.
Multi-line values can only be entered when no mask is applied to an editing field. The editing area of a field cannot exceed the original dimensions of a control.
- Values entered into editing fields are reset back to their defaults after refreshing the document (e.g., when submitting report parameter values and expanding or collapsing data in a drill-down report).
- It is impossible to edit content of a control that has its DrillDownControl property specified.
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Field values entered in Print Preview for controls placed onto the Top Margin and Bottom Margin bands are not preserved when the report is exported to TXT or CSV, as well as the following formats as a single file.
- HTML
- MHT
- RTF
- XLS
- XLSX
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To learn about the specifics of editing different kinds of content, see the following sections in this document.
Text Editing
The Label, Table Cell and Character Comb controls can be assigned editors to customize their content in Print Preview.
To enable content editing for these controls, expand their EditOptions property and set the Enabled property to true.
The following editors can be used to customize a field’s content in Print Preview.
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Default Editor
By default, the EditorName property is not specified, and a memo edit is used as a standard editor.
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Specific Value Editors
You can assign a specific editor to a control using its EditorName property.
The standard editors are divided into the following categories.
Numeric
Date-Time
Letters
- Integer
- Integer Positive
- Fixed-Point
- Fixed-Point Positive
- Date
- Only Letters
- Only Uppercase Letters
- Only Lowercase Letters
- Only Latin Letters
[!NOTE] If a table cell contains other controls, its editing is disabled (but not the editing of the controls contained in this cell), which is illustrated in the following image.
Check Box Editing
The Check Box control’s value can be edited in Print Preview.
To enable content editing for a check box, expand its EditOptions property and set the Enabled property to true.
In Print Preview, the control’s behavior depends on the GroupID setting.
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When this property is set to null or an empty string value, a check box can be switched either to the “checked” or “unchecked” state (the “intermediate” state is not supported) independently on other available check boxes.
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Otherwise, the field editor behaves like a radio button, and editors with the same GroupID value belong to a single logical group (i.e., only one option can be selected within a group at a time).