Adds new features in Web Report Designer - dedicated wizards for new WebService, JSON and CSV data sources.
Features
- Add support for SVG image format to PictureBox item
- The PictureBox item now supports SVG format to allow rendering images with best quality regardless their size.
- Add CSV data source wizard
- The Web Report Designer now has a wizard with intuitive step by step instructions that guide you through the process of creating or editing the CSV data source.
- Add JSON data source wizard
- The Web Report Designer now has a wizard with intuitive step by step instructions that guide you through the process of creating or editing the JSON data source.
- Add reset functionality to the property editors
- The property editors in Web Report Designer's Properties pane can now be reset to their default state.
- Add Web Service data source wizard
- The Web Report Designer now has a wizard with intuitive step by step instructions that guides you through the process of creating or editing the Web Service data source.
- Report rendering performance optimization
- The actual report document output is now performed in parallel with the report pagination, bringing significant speed improvements for multipage reports.
- What's Improved
- Preserve the state of the Properties pane in Web Report Designer.
Fixes
- What's Changed
- Rendering extensions with paging now create new processing page header/footer instances for each page.
- Web Service Data Source
- Content headers are not case-insensitive.
- Dynamic URL in WebServiceDataSource does not work properly with inline parameter containing question mark character.
- Web Designer
- Design time parameters are not respected during the preview of the SqlDatasource wizard.
- SQL parameters cannot be configured through the wizard.
- WebReportDesigner's NuGet package doesn't include dependency to Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.WebHost 5.2.7 for projects targeting Microsoft .NET Framework.
- The default storage implementation in FileDefinitionStorage class works only on Microsoft Windows platform.
- The method RegisterRoutes(config, firstPathSegment) in ReportDesignerControllerConfiguration class is not public.
- DateTime editor is not stylized correctly.
- Open reports list remains hidden in some scenarios.
- Processing
- Fonts are not resolved correctly on Linux and Apple MacOS platforms.
- Expressions
- Fields in Expression Editor are not populated when the parent DataSource is set through Bindings.
- Server
- Some sensitive data in the report server assets is not properly protected.
- Upgrading from R2 2020 (6.1.20.513) or R2 2020 SP1 (6.1.20.618) fails due to invalid DateTime value persisted in the storage.
- Server REST API
- Stop CORS request caching which prevents viewers from connecting to the Report Server.
- Preview
- Multivalue report parameter values are not selected correctly with Kendo 2020.2.513.
- Toggling the Document map visibility does not work.