Working with the Ribbon (Report Builder 2.0)
The Ribbon is designed to help you quickly find the commands that you need to complete a task. Commands are organized in logical groups, which are collected together under tabs. Each tab relates to a type of activity, such as inserting report items or formatting text.
The Ribbon is divided into the following tabs: Home, Insert, and View. If you cannot find a task on the Ribbon, some Ribbon groups have a related dialog box that you can open by clicking the arrow in the lower right of the group. You cannot minimize or delete the Ribbon or replace it with toolbars and menus.
The Views group is on the left side of the Home tab. You can make changes to your report and then preview them in HTML format by switching between design and run mode.
Home tab
The Home tab is a collection of commonly used commands focused on the appearance of items within your report. From the Home tab, you can access the run, font, paragraph, border, number, and layout commands. When you click an item on the tab, the selected item on the design surface changes. When you click Run, the report is rendered in HTML so that you can see how the contents of the report will appear when published, and you see the Run tab instead of the Home tab. The Home tab is the default tab displayed when you first create a report.
Insert tab
The Insert tab is a collection of commands commonly used for adding report items to the report. From the Insert tab, you can use a wizard to add a table, matrix, or chart data region. You can also add a data region without using the wizard, and add other report items such as text boxes, images, lines, rectangles, subreports, and report headers and footers. After you insert an item, Report Builder automatically switches back to the Home tab.
For more information, see Report Layout How-to Topics (Report Builder 2.0).
View tab
The View tab is a collection of commands that control what is displayed within the Report Builder 2.0 window. You can change display options for the ruler and the Grouping, Report Data and Properties panes.
Run tab
When you click Run on the Home tab, you run a preview of the report in the HTML Viewer, and you see the Run tab instead of the Home tab.
The Run tab contains a collection of commands that you can use after the report is rendered. You can print the report, navigate through the report pages, export the report to another file format, view the document map, view parameters, and locate items within the report. For more information, see Previewing Reports in the HTML Viewer (Report Builder 2.0).
To return to Design mode, on the Run tab, click Design.