conditional watermark crash during runtime

[Wally]

The watermark shows fine in the designer using Print Preview.
During runtime there is a crash.
     
 <Watermarks>
        <TextWatermark Text="= Elixir.App.Reports.DataSources.LoadIsPreliminary(Parameters.site.Value, Parameters.load_key.Value).ToString()" Color="Red" Orientation="Diagonal" Position="Front" Opacity="0.1" PrintOnFirstPage="True" PrintOnLastPage="True">
          <Font Name="helvetica" Size="60pt" />
        </TextWatermark>
      </Watermarks>



using Telerik.Reporting.Expressions;
 
namespace Elixir.App.Reports.DataSources
{
    class BolFunctions: Telerik.Reporting.Report
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Is this load preliminary?
        /// 
        /// User function for Telerik reports
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="site"></param>
        /// <param name="loadKey"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        [Function(IsVisible = true, Category = "WatermarkTest", Description = "Testing", Namespace = "Elixir.App.Reports.DataSources", Name="LoadIsPreliminary")]
        public static string LoadIsPreliminary(string site, string loadKey)
        {
            // Would actually prefer that this function  return a bool
            // and let the report output a non-blank watermark if true, otherwise no watermark.
 
            // Would like to have another boolean function as well, LoadIsSpecialCase2, etc.
 
            return "This is another test";
           
        }
    }

}
preferred watermark:
<Watermarks>
        <TextWatermark Text="= IIf(Elixir.App.Reports.DataSources.BolReportInfo.LoadIsPreliminary(Parameters.site.Value, Parameters.load_key.Value), &quot;PRELIMINARY&quot;, &#xD;&#xA;    IIf(Elixir.App.Reports.DataSources.BolReportInfo.LoadIsCancelled(Parameters.site.Value, Parameters.load_key.Value), &quot;CANCELLED&quot;, &quot;&quot;))" Orientation="Diagonal" Position="Front" Opacity="0.1" PrintOnFirstPage="True" PrintOnLastPage="True">
          <Font Name="helvetica" Size="60pt" />
        </TextWatermark>
      </Watermarks>

[Wally]

This thread may be ignored because a similar issue has been submitted on a support ticket.

[Stef]

Hello,

For anyone concerned, this is a quote from the support ticket:

In your case the type TestWatermarkTrdx.WatermarkUtilities could not be found, because your watermark expression is referring to an assembly which is not resolved. All you have to do is to include this assembly in the Telerik.Reporting AssemblyReferences section in your application's configuration file so it would look like this:

<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section
      name="Telerik.Reporting"
      type="Telerik.Reporting.Configuration.ReportingConfigurationSection, Telerik.Reporting"
      allowLocation="true"
      allowDefinition="Everywhere"/>
  </configSections>
  <Telerik.Reporting>
    <AssemblyReferences>
      <add name="TestWatermarkTrdx" version="1.0.0.0" />
    </AssemblyReferences>
  </Telerik.Reporting>
</configuration>

 
The reporting engine will try to resolve all the types from the assemblies mentioned in the AssemblyReferences section so the expressions that are using some user defined functions to work properly."

Regards,
Stef
Telerik