Binding to object with child objects

[Justin Lee]

I have a report that is bound to a business object list.  The business object class contains a list of child objects.  Example:  The parent object is Company, and the Company class contains a list of Employees.  The report shows the details of each company, and the list of employees for each company.  This senario fits the use of a SubReport.  However, is there a way to do this without a SubReport?  And if not, is there a way to pass the child items to the subreport, instead of the ID of the company?  (since the child objects are already populated in the Company object, if I pass the ID of the company, the Employee list will have to be retrieve a second time)

Thanks,
Justin

[Peter]

Hi Justin Lee,

The subreport items are not mandatory for utilizing business objects with child collections. Generally any data item (Table, Crosstab, List, Subreport and Chart) can use nested lists. In order to pass directly the child collection our suggestion is to set binding to the child data item's DataSource property as shown in the following example:

Property path	Expression
DataSource	=Fields.MyChildCollection

 
Greetings,
Peter
the Telerik team

[Justin Lee]

Excellent. I knew I was missing something.  Thanks!