Custom controls for report

[IT]

I've had a lot of need recently to use checkboxes on my reports. I've been using an example that I found on the forum where I actually place a picturebox where I want the checkbox, then load an image that is checked or unchecked depending on some logic in the databinding event handler for the detail section of the report. That works just fine for a few checkboxes, but I have several reports with 50-60 checkboxes each and it creates a lot of very cumbersome code.

Is it possible to create a custom control, inherited perhaps from picturebox, that I could then place on a telerik report? I would want to just add the logic to it to show the checked or unchecked image based on a Field it is bound to (boolean).

[Svetoslav]

Hello Josh,

Please excuse us for the late reply.

Up until now there is no such thing like custom/user report item. Anyway, you can derive from the Telerik.Reporting.PictureBox item and using the same approach (through the data binding events) to create some kind of check box item.

(Please have in mind that because of a limitation of the Report Designer this item will not be visible in the Visual Studio's Toolbox and you should add it by hand or even better you can drop a PictureBox item and than replace with your type).

The good news is that for the next version (due in mid of April) we will (I hope) introduce a custom report item together with a specific designer that will allow our users to create their report items.

All the best,
Svetoslav
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[terrysmith]

Do you support custom controls for reports yet?

We currently use the Telerik ASP.NET controls but not Telerik Reporting. We would be very interested in using Telerik Reports if we could had our own custom report items to reports, hopefully with only minor changes to custom controls which we already have. We do Business Intelligence and need to add our own OLAP visulation controls to a report.

Thank you,
Terry

[Steve]

Hi Terry,

We do not offer support for report items other than the ones we ship with the product and we have no forthcoming plans for such in the upcoming year. If you need is to include visualization, you can save to image file and use this file in the Report through the picturebox item directly.

Sincerely yours,
Steve
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[Garry]

Hey Support Guys,
I know this is a very old post, but I couldn't find an updated one in the forums so I decided to reopen this for discussion. Has this functionality been added to Telerik Reporting?

We are a mental health agency and I need to create a control that allows our therapists to electronically sign forms/reports in order for them to be valid. Think Adobe Acrobat electronic signatures. I am currently working on an internal OOB Silverlight app that I am looking at Telerik Reporting for, but would really like to be able to add my own interactive controls.

I'm looking at using a Topaz Systems signature pad and their SDK, http://www.topazsystems.com/software/download/dotnet/index.htm, in order to build the control. Especially with Silverlight 5 and the ability to talk to USB devices this seems like a perfect solution.

Any thoughts or comments as to if this is possible?

Thanks,
Garry

[Steve]

Hi Garry,

Our standing on the matter has not changed. Moreover adding interactivity is far more complex than simply creating an item that can be rendered in a report.

Best wishes,
Steve
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