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asked on 06 May 2011, 04:54 PM
I would like to visualize bound dates...can you guys put together a calendar control I can bind a DateTime to which would render the selected Day\Month by any chance?
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Peter
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You can create a calendar report with our Crosstab item as elaborated in the Creating a Calendar Report with Telerik Reporting blog. Generally we don't plan to add a dedicated Calendar control because it is quite easy to create such a report with Telerik Reporting and in general this is only one of the many possible report layouts.
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answered on 11 May 2011, 06:04 PM
Can you put it into PITS anyway to let the users vote on it?
It's hardly an easy implementation especially used across many reports, and the only post to that blog you linked me to has a person saying "I've been asking for this for a long time!" and "maybe you could build a calendar component into the next version of reporting !?". Also your own landing page promotes "Zero Code"...
Like you have a control, which renders the calendar and it accepts two datavalues...start date and end date
1) Just specifying start date renders the calendar month with the day selected
2) Specifying both, renders the span with all the days between highlighted
Or something like that...seriously, this would be an awesome control and clearly I'm not the only person to want it.
It's hardly an easy implementation especially used across many reports, and the only post to that blog you linked me to has a person saying "I've been asking for this for a long time!" and "maybe you could build a calendar component into the next version of reporting !?". Also your own landing page promotes "Zero Code"...
Like you have a control, which renders the calendar and it accepts two datavalues...start date and end date
1) Just specifying start date renders the calendar month with the day selected
2) Specifying both, renders the span with all the days between highlighted
Or something like that...seriously, this would be an awesome control and clearly I'm not the only person to want it.
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Hello Steve,
Telerik Reports are UI technology agnostic and use special objects called Report Items. This makes the reporting engine suitable for any type of application no matter if it is a desktop application (Windows Forms/WPF), a Web application or an internet application (Silverlight). That said no objects/controls/widgets from other technologies are supported.
Currently Telerik Reporting uses calendar controls for report parameters of type DateTime for the end users to input values for the parameters. The goal of the referenced blog post is to demonstrate another approach to create a schedule/calendar report. The popular look and feel of the calendars is nothing more than a crosstable presentation of the dates in a period of time. Since the Time is a well defined dimension using the Telerik Reporting's Table item to implement a calendar presentation is straight forward as illustrated in the blog post.
Anyway adding more features to the product will only make it better. Right now our efforts are aimed at improving the performance of the reporting engine and adding more data visualization and interactivity features. Once we catch up with the most popular and wanted features (ex. different types of diagrams, maps, etc.) we will definitely consider adding things like calendars, etc.
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Svetoslav
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Telerik Reports are UI technology agnostic and use special objects called Report Items. This makes the reporting engine suitable for any type of application no matter if it is a desktop application (Windows Forms/WPF), a Web application or an internet application (Silverlight). That said no objects/controls/widgets from other technologies are supported.
Currently Telerik Reporting uses calendar controls for report parameters of type DateTime for the end users to input values for the parameters. The goal of the referenced blog post is to demonstrate another approach to create a schedule/calendar report. The popular look and feel of the calendars is nothing more than a crosstable presentation of the dates in a period of time. Since the Time is a well defined dimension using the Telerik Reporting's Table item to implement a calendar presentation is straight forward as illustrated in the blog post.
Anyway adding more features to the product will only make it better. Right now our efforts are aimed at improving the performance of the reporting engine and adding more data visualization and interactivity features. Once we catch up with the most popular and wanted features (ex. different types of diagrams, maps, etc.) we will definitely consider adding things like calendars, etc.
Regards,
Svetoslav
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answered on 17 May 2011, 04:35 PM
If by visualization you mean better charting (like SSRS has had for years) then by all means, do that instead of a calendar!
So you know that a calendar control itself is a "Visualization" right?...I'm not looking for a complex scheduler ala the RadScheduler. What I need is a small visualization control that just shows a couple highlighted boxes. That helps visualize the data easier than "Saturday September 13th, 2015" on a detail report.
Let me throw out another example...you have the "Shapes" control which helps visualize things easier too, like ratings. I'm sure back in the day it was also trivial to do a list with some conditional colored textboxes repeating...but the Shapes control is just much nicer.
...I still would like you to put it into the not scheduled section of PITS please :) I would just like some way to track this....now if it's on a future roadmap that's fine, but if people can vote on it, then we at least might have a shot of increasing its priority.
So you know that a calendar control itself is a "Visualization" right?...I'm not looking for a complex scheduler ala the RadScheduler. What I need is a small visualization control that just shows a couple highlighted boxes. That helps visualize the data easier than "Saturday September 13th, 2015" on a detail report.
Let me throw out another example...you have the "Shapes" control which helps visualize things easier too, like ratings. I'm sure back in the day it was also trivial to do a list with some conditional colored textboxes repeating...but the Shapes control is just much nicer.
...I still would like you to put it into the not scheduled section of PITS please :) I would just like some way to track this....now if it's on a future roadmap that's fine, but if people can vote on it, then we at least might have a shot of increasing its priority.