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Hiram
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Hiram asked on 19 Nov 2012, 04:49 PM
Hello

Will it be possible in the next releases to create a report book with the desinger?

Basically I need 2 pages for a report of the same content, but with a different layout.

Can that be achieved by a single report?

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Steve
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answered on 20 Nov 2012, 05:40 PM
Hi,

A report book is basically combining different reports into one for the purposes of printing them at once or exporting them to a single file. In this line of thoughts, you have a report designer which you can use to create the reports that you would combine into a report book. You can open the Visual Studio examples we provide with the product and see how we add reports to a report book e.g.:

public class ReportBook : Telerik.Reporting.ReportBook
    {
        public ReportBook()
        {
            this.Reports.Add(new Dashboard());
            this.Reports.Add(new ProductSales());
        }
   }

Since you need different layout, you would have to create two reports bound to the same data source, but with different layout and add them to the Reports collection of the ReportBook.

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Steve
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Hiram
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answered on 23 Nov 2012, 08:24 AM
Thanks for the answer. Is it possible to Serialize a Reportbook including the Reports and Deserialize them when required?
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Steve
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answered on 23 Nov 2012, 08:55 AM
Hi,

Yes, you can serialize the ReportBook class as well, but currently you would always work with report instances as the ReportBook does not yet handle report sources.

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Steve
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Jennifer
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answered on 31 Aug 2016, 02:40 PM
Steve, I am seeing if I can do a report book in Report Designer R2 2016.  I do not see a report book in the sample files and do not have the option of using Visual Studio.  Is this possible?
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Stef
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answered on 31 Aug 2016, 03:31 PM
Hello Jennifer,

A Telerik.Reporting.ReportBook can be created only in code, there is no UI. Please feel free to log a feature request for having an option to generate a ReportBook through the available Report Designers. Features are considered for implementation based on the demand for them

Please check the ReportBook demo in the local examples, installed by default under C:\Program Files (x86)\Telerik\Reporting <VERSION>\Examples. The code can be extended to load a TRDP|TRDX file produced by the Standalone Report Designer and to unpackage|deserialize it, in order to get a Telerik.Reporting.Report object that can be added in the ReportBook.Reports collection.


On a side note, my colleague informed me about your call and that the question is related to an issue with page numbers. Before proceeding with the ReportBook, please elaborate on the issue. You can open a support ticket allowing us to exchange ZIP files with demo reports and examples privately.

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Stef
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