List & Label 23 Enterprise Reporting Edition List & Label 23 Enterprise Reporting Edition

.NET Updates

• New property DataBindingMode, defaulting to "DelayLoad". Only loads necessary meta data leading to a huge performance gain.
• Added ability to configure relations between tables from different providers as long as they support the IAdvancedFiltering interface.
• Queries for report parameters now use DISTINCT if possible, leading to a huge performance gain.
• New Salesforce data provider.
• Ad-hoc Designer available as new control, new sample.
• Report Server is part of the Enterprise Edition, new API to upload data sources and project files, new samples.
• HTML5 viewer supports changing the current page by scrolling with the mouse wheel.
• The DbCommandSetDataProvider has a new event Execute DbCommand that allows changing the created commands before they are sent to the database.
• Web Designer:
  • Added support for all cookie-based authentication types, including OWIN / ASP.NET Identity.
  • Removed dependencies on the jQuery and jQuery Mobile frameworks.
  • New properties to set the user interface language for a client.

General Updates

• The designer shows virtual formula variables underneath the fields and variables (e.g. "first letter" for strings).
• Pie and donut charts support setting pie coverage. Enables a number of new chart layouts, e.g. half pie charts.
• The chart object supports signal ranges in order to highlight certain areas.
• Support for SVG as image format.
• SVG export completely overhauled.
• Crosstabs can be edited directly in the workspace, new context ribbon.
• The Designer's error list window contents can be copied to the clipboard.
• Copied user variables now support custom names.
• Allow date values for minimum / maximum aggregate functions.
• The time part of report parameters of the date type can now be selected in a date/time picker.
• Reduced memory footprint for crosstabs.
• Added new export option 'PDF.FileAttachments'for PDF export to be able to add additional files into the resulting PDF container.
• Improved line break behavior for RTF contents in XHTML support.
• New preview scaling option allows a page to be displayed in its true physical size when setting the zoom to 100% in the preview.
• Signature provider esiCAPI in option Export.SignatureProvider is not supported anymore.
• Word Export now supports only Microsoft Word 2010 and higher.
• Variables with invalid characters can now be treated as such.

API Updates

• The option LL_OPTION_POSTPAINT_TABLESEPARATORS is the new default.
• The option LL_OPTION_PARTSHARINGFLAGS now defaults to 0xff.

Report Server Updates

• Ad-hoc Designer:
  • New chart types "Radar/Web", "Treemap" and "Funnel"
  • Possibility to group after a certain number of characters
  • Possibility to cancel the preview for extensive data sources
  • Simplified table selection
• Report Elements:
  • Shapefiles are now supported
  • SVG graphics are now supported
  • Data Sources:
  • Salesforce is now supported
  • Relations between diverse data sources
  • SQLite data sources now support the query assistant
  • The Advantage Database Server is now supported via ODBC driver
• Scheduled Reports:
  • Support of placeholder/variables
  • Filename of email attachments can now be defined
  • Filename when copying to network drives can now be defined
  • User defined directory and filename for FTP upload can now be defined
• Report Server Designer: Application is now DPI-Aware
• System requirements: The lowest supported operating system is now Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-Bit)