Hi!
We have been using Telerik controls for the past 3 years and have built extensive WPF Controls with RadGrids for our customers to view their data. More and more we are getting asked for the ability to have the reports automatically created and emailed in a PDF format every night to them. We built our own service to do this that exports the Grid to a .XPS file to get the identical look and feel of the screen then use a .XPS to PDF converter to do the final conversion so that we didn't have to recreate all of the controls in another format. The challenge is the service is proving unreliable due to having may different dependencies.
My question is:
Does Telerik have something in their suite of controls and libs that would facilitate the scheduling and emailing of reports in a more "Industry standard" fashion that wold move the report creation closer to the data? How to other people accomplish this task, as I know it is nothing new.
Thanks,
Ryan
We have been using Telerik controls for the past 3 years and have built extensive WPF Controls with RadGrids for our customers to view their data. More and more we are getting asked for the ability to have the reports automatically created and emailed in a PDF format every night to them. We built our own service to do this that exports the Grid to a .XPS file to get the identical look and feel of the screen then use a .XPS to PDF converter to do the final conversion so that we didn't have to recreate all of the controls in another format. The challenge is the service is proving unreliable due to having may different dependencies.
My question is:
Does Telerik have something in their suite of controls and libs that would facilitate the scheduling and emailing of reports in a more "Industry standard" fashion that wold move the report creation closer to the data? How to other people accomplish this task, as I know it is nothing new.
Thanks,
Ryan
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Hello Ryan,
Didie
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RadGridView does not offer such printing capabilities itself. What I can suggest you is to check our Reporting tools (Telerik Reporting).
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Ryan
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answered on 06 May 2013, 01:27 PM
Hi Didie,
Having worked with the Grid for a few years now I already know that is the case. Would you please be more helpful with your answer and add how I might use the Reporting Tools you speak of?
Having worked with the Grid for a few years now I already know that is the case. Would you please be more helpful with your answer and add how I might use the Reporting Tools you speak of?
- Is there a quick way to leverage our grid to create a report template?
- How do I use the reporting tools to create pdf and email on a schedule?
- Is there an example project that you can share that already does this?
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Hello,
Didie
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As those questions are related to Telerik Reporting, I would suggest you to post them in the respective forum category here.
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