Report Viewer 2018 Updates

Report Viewer 203

  • Released November 12, 2018

New Features

Support For the <Background> Element (1582)

LiquidFrameworks has added support for the <background> XML element. The <background> element inserts a repeating background image into the <template> element. You can use <background> to add a watermark in the main area of a report. For more information about the <background> element, visit XML Elements.

Feature Enhancements

PDF Report Template Syntax (5665)

We have made several syntax improvements for PDF report templates.

You can now declare multiple styles in a collection on a template.

For example:

<text style=”style1 style2”>

You can use the borderTop, borderBottom, borderLeft, and borderRight table attributes as styles to define individual border sections.

For example:

Define a cell to only have borders on its left and right sides with

<cell borderLeft=”true” borderRight=”true”>Example</cell>

You can also make columnWidths a collection under the table object, as well as continue to use columnWidths as a table attribute.

For example:

Define a column in table to be filled blue and 20 pixels wide with

<col width=”20” fillColor=”blue”/>

In addition, within large text field defined with the preserveWhitespace text attribute (<text preserveWhitespace=”true”>), report templates should honor tab and newline whitespace (<br/>) characters.

Bug Fixes

# Area Description

5665

Templates

In addition to making several syntax improvements for report templates, we fixed an issue preventing transformation to PDF if a watermark is not on the signatureBlock element.

Report Viewer 200

  • Released May 1, 2018

Feature Enhancements

N/A

Bug Fixes

N/A

Report Viewer 199

  • Released March 21, 2018

Feature Enhancements

Image re-use now available on PDF Reports (1191)

You can now re-use images on PDF reports. To take advantage of this new feature, you need to add <image> and <images> elements to the XML templates for your PDF reports.

Refer to the XML Elements article for instructions on how to use the <image> and <images> elements for PDF reports.

Bug Fixes

# Area Description

1108

PDF Reports

You couldn’t run PDF reports if they featured rich text fields.

1190

Invoice Reports

Reports with 2000+ invoice items didn’t work correctly.

Report Viewer 194

  • Released January 11, 2018

Feature Enhancements

<Image> element now supports external sources (1099)

You can now enter a URL as the source for an <image> element on a PDF report.

<image width="300" source="https://i.imgur.com/B3NJGly.jpg"></image>

This gives you the ability to embed images from external sources on PDF reports.

New font available for PDF Reports (1109)

You can now use the Courier New font on PDF reports. To use the Courier New font, you need to set the font attribute for the relevant element.

<text font="Courier">TICKET NUMBER: {{FX5__Tracking_Number__c}}</text>

Lightning Experience Support added (1135)

You can now use the Report Viewer in Lighting Experience.