Build report programmatic

[rtk]

Hey

Is there any good example for building report dynamic. I can't find very much information about this. Only ifnormation i found was this: http://www.telerik.com/help/reporting/programmatic-control-of-reports.html

My problem is that the report would change depending on the data.

Here are some of mye problem:
- Add controls dynamic. I know i can add controls in design mode and look at the "code behind". But it looks like i need to place control with a absolute position. I need to use sections. I tried to use panels, but this is useless if i need to give the panel a absolute position, because the content length of every panel will be different.
- How can i control page break? I would like every new section to start on a new page.

Thanks

[Steve]

Hi brajoh,

Up to your questions:

• Every report items should have Location and Size set - this is mandatory. The TextBox item has CanGrow/CanShrink property so it can grow whenever necessary. The Panel item on the other side is a container item and grows according to its children, so clearly this should not be a problem. However there is no easy way to create dynamic layout, so you might consider creating different reports for different layouts.
• Though the PageBreak property of each section ..

All the best,
Steve
the Telerik team

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