The Panelcontrol is intended to group individual report controls.
The Panel control is a container to keep together any number of report controls. When the controls are placed onto a Panel, they can be moved, copied and printed as a whole. There are currently several limitations on Panel usage. One of them is that the Panel control does not have the Can Shrinkproperty, and so cannot suppress the white space that appears when the controls inside are shrunk or collapsed. Also, the Panel cannot be used in different bands, unlike a cross-band control.
The Panel can be used for page decoration - to create borders around the report elements or add a uniform color background.
In the Property Grid, the Panel control's properties are divided into the following groups.