remove modal dialogs
Remove modal dialogs
Trying to develop reports using the report designer is bad enough due to the often poor rendering without the pain of having to drill up and down through dialogs each and every time you want to preview it
adolf garlic
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Daver
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It would be nice to modernize the Report Designer. The report designer should be more like Excel. I can quickly mock up a prototype report in excel, but it's painful in SSRS designer. I'm creating complex reports with 100s of fields and it drives me insane that I have to go into the Expression dialog box to make formulas with various averages and aggregations. I need to modify tons of objects and properties quickly. Also, the properties in the properties window keep moving when I want to resize and reposition items using the Location and Size properties. And I want to quickly view all the properties of all objects to compare that they are all correct or all the same. It would be nice to have a tool that was an editable grid that simply lists objects and selected properties.
Table1, Location.Left, Location.Right
Table2, Location.Left, Location.Rightor
Field1, Size.Width,Size.Height
Field2, Size.Width,Size.Height
Field3, Size.Width,Size.Heightor
Field1, BorderStyle.Default, BorderStyle.Left, BorderStyle.Top
Field2, BorderStyle.Default, BorderStyle.Left, BorderStyle.Top
Field3, BorderStyle.Default, BorderStyle.Left, BorderStyle.Topor even.
Field1, Expression
Field2, Expression
Field3, Expression
