Until now we have created the enhanced layout of our report completely manually in Visual Studio. To automatically generate the enhanced layout you have to use the Tools | Create Layout Suggestion option in the menu, as shown in the next screenshot:
Selecting this option will create a new layout for our report. If there was already a layout created, it will overwrite the existing layout with a new one, after asking for validation:
Visual studio will be opened and the report will have a layout generated, as displayed in the next screenshot:
The create layout suggestion will create an RDLC file. As a data region, it will always use a table. The way that the table is created will depend on the way information is laid out in the sections. The following screenshots might shine some light on this mechanism:
This classic layout:
Is converted into this enhanced layout:
Example 2:
Is converted into this enhanced layout:
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