Chapter 9. Using Report Studio Better

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Report Studio environmental options
  • Copy-pasting partial or full reports
  • Copy-pasting whole reports—8.2 to 8.4 possible
  • Setting the execution time out
  • Setting the maximum rows limit
  • Handling slow report validation
  • Capturing a query
  • Browsing values from the data expression window
  • The page structure view
  • How to pick up and apply styles
  • Grab them all practice

Introduction

It is a common issue in learning any rich tool that we tend to miss out some options or features that are not frequently used. We do routine development work without even knowing that there are some features that can improve our experience as a developer (report writer) or improve the deliverables.

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