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Chart Type (Sub-types): Column (Plain/Stacked/PercentStacked), Bar (Plain/Stacked/PercentStacked), Line (Plain/Smooth), Pie (Plain/Exploded), Area (Plain/Stacked), Doughnut (Plain)
Palette: The basic color choices: Default, EarthTones, Excel, GrayScale, Light, Pastel, SemiTransparent
Render XML Element: Output means the chart element will be rendered.
Percent Width for bar/columns: Controls the relative width of the bars or columns.
No Rows Message: If there are no rows in the DataSet (after filtering is applied) then this message will be used in place of the chart.
DataSet Name: The DataSet that provides the source of data for this chart.
Chart Data: The expression that is used to compute the chart data.
Page Breaks: You can force page breaks before or after the chart.

Filters allow rows to be removed from the DataSet. For example, you might be interested in only the Top 10 sales for a department.

Filter Expression: The filter expression is the left side of the filter operation. This is typically a Field expression. For example, =Fields!deptSales.Value.
Operator: The following operators are supported: Equal, Like, NotEqual, GreaterThan, GreaterThanOrEqual, LessThan, LessThanOrEqual, TopN, BottomN, TopPercent, BottomPercent, In, and Between. For the Top 10 example you would use TopN.
Value: For most operators this is a single expression. For 'In' you specify a list of value expressions separated by comma (e.g. 'v1', 'v2', 'v3'). For 'Between' you specify two value expressions, the beginning and ending values (e.g. 5, 10 ). For the Top 10 example you would use 10.

Name: The name of the report item must be unique within all report items.
Span Table Columns: This property only shows when a report item is located within a TableCell. Spanning allows a report item to cover more than 1 column in the table.

The position of the report item only show when not part of a Table or Matrix. Positions can have the following units

Left: Location of the left side of the report item
Top: Location of the top side of the report item
Width: Width of the report item. Matrixes and Tables should not have widths specified as they are calculated.
Height: Height of the report item. Matrixes and Tables should not have height specified as they are calculated.
Z Index: Order of the rendering of the object. Z Index isn't relevent unless there are overlapping report items.

The Text Processing options only appear for the Textbox report item.

Can Grow: The height of the textbox will dynamically grow if the contained text requires it.
Can Shrink: Not currently supported by the RDL runtime engine.
Hide Duplicates: If the previous instance of this report item on the current page and current group is the same as this one hide this Textbox.
XML element style: Choices are Auto, attribute-normal, element-noremal.
Toggle Image: Does this item need a toggle image? true/false

Style: Valid values are None, Dotted, Dashed, Solid, Double, Groove, Ridge, Inset, WindowInset, Outset. However not all renderers support all border styles. Example: None, =iif(Fields!salary.Value > 100000, "Solid", "None")
Color: Color of the border. Example: blue, =iif(Fields!salary.Value > 100000, "red", "black")
Width: Width of the border. Example: 1pt
Default: Sets the default to use when a side isn't specified.
Left, Right, Top, Bottom: The cooresponding edge of the border you want to set.

Background Color: The background color of the report item. Examples: red, green, =iif(Fields!salary.Value > 100000, "green", "black")
Background Gradient: Only enabled for charts. Possible values: None (Default), LeftRight, TopBottom, Center, DiagonalLeft, DiagonalRight, HorizontalCenter, VerticalCenter.
Background End Color: Only enable for charts. Specifies the endding color for the gradient.
Padding: Size expressions that control the spacing around the report item. Examples: 2pt, =iif(Fields!salary.Value > 100000, "2pt", "4pt")
XML DataElementName: When rendering in XML this name will be used instead of the report item name.
XML DataElementOutput: Output indicates report item should render, NoOutput report item should not render.

The Action properties control action should be taken on a mouse click of the report item.

None: Take no action
Hyperlink: Link to the specified (or calculated) URL.
BookmarkLink: Link to the specified (or calculated) ID of a bookmark within the report.
Drillthrough: Link to the specified report passing the specified parameters as report parameters in the linked report.

Visibility controls whether the item shows in the report.

Hidden: Controls the initial visibility. When True the report item is hidden.
Toggle Item: The Textbox report item that toggles the visibility.

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