Design Environment

• Easy to use Office-like designer environment
• New! Access Reports import wizard
• New! Crystal Reports import wizard
• New! VBScript and JScript events and expressions and a built-in syntax-highlighting script editor
• New! ActiveReports for ActiveX/COM 1.0 upsizer. Includes data bound text, checkbox, image, OLE objects, rich text and subreports ActiveX control host. Use 3rd party controls or your own custom controls in your reports
• New! Barcode Control New! Report bookmark and internet hyperlinks
• New! Controls Style property editor based on standard CSS syntax Pro! Royalty-free end-user designer control

Data Access

• Supports DAO, RDO, ADO
• New! Support for XML data sources and XPath, XSL expressions
• Supports unbound data from arrays, collections, and other data providers
• Binds to recordsets and resultsets for maximum flexibility and connection efficiency

Architecture

• Full runtime access to objects, data sources and binding, ability to add controls/sections dynamically at runtime to modify the report behavior
• Full control over printer jobs, properties and ouput devices
• Hosts ActiveX components and OLE objects

Deployment

• Reports can be compiled for maximum security and speed
• New! Report layouts can be distributed as XML based reort layout (RPX files) (application host independent)
• Enhanced! Java viewer based on JDK 1.3 with printing support
• New! TIFF export in addition to Text, RTF, Excel, PDF and HTML export filters
• Enhanced! PDF export supports table of contents bookmarks and embedded fonts

ActiveX Viewer

• New! Multipage thumbnails
• New! Split Views
• New! Ruler
• New! Text Search