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Fridli Jacober
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Fridli Jacober asked on 13 Jul 2010, 12:32 PM
hi

is it possible to set the position of an item with a value from the database?
we want to let the users set where the logo and the address block is positioned.

I tried this but it does not seem to work:

Me.HtmlTextBox1.Location = New Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.PointU(New Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.Unit(CDbl("=Fields.Settings_List_AdresseX"), Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.UnitType.Cm), [...])

With (for testing)
SELECT [...], 10 AS Settings_List_AdresseX FROM  [dbo].[...]

Thanks for help

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Peter
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answered on 15 Jul 2010, 01:41 PM
Hi Roland Meier,

You cannot use an expression to set a report item's location property directly, instead you can set the Location with the help of Bindings and an User Function as the one shown in the following code snippet:

public static Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.PointU location(double d)
{
    return new Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.PointU(new Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.Unit(d, Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.UnitType.Inch), new Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.Unit(d, Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.UnitType.Inch));
}

Binding:

Property Path  Expression
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Location =location(Fields.Settings_List_AdresseX)

Check out the attached sample report. I have used a Report Parameter to set a TextBox's location with Bindings and User Function.

Best wishes,
Peter
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answered on 16 Jul 2010, 08:49 AM
Hi Peter

Thanks for your help. Sounds great but I have problems with the code.
I have:
KursAufgebot.vb
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports Telerik.Reporting
Imports Telerik.Reporting.Drawing
  
Partial Public Class KursAufgebot
    Inherits Telerik.Reporting.Report
  
    Public Sub New()
        InitializeComponent()
        Dim ReportParameter1 As Telerik.Reporting.ReportParameter = New Telerik.Reporting.ReportParameter
        Dim ReportParameter2 As Telerik.Reporting.ReportParameter = New Telerik.Reporting.ReportParameter
        ReportParameter1.Name = "sprache"
        ReportParameter1.Text = "sprache"
        ReportParameter1.Value = "<de>"
        ReportParameter2.Name = "AdFObjectID"
        ReportParameter2.Text = "AdFObjectID"
        ReportParameter2.Value = "..."
        Me.ReportParameters.Add(ReportParameter1)
        Me.ReportParameters.Add(ReportParameter2)
    End Sub
  
    Public Shared Function setLocation(ByVal x As Double) As Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.PointU
        Return New Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.PointU(New Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.Unit(x, Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.UnitType.Cm), New Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.Unit(0, Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.UnitType.Cm))
    End Function
End Class

and
KursAufgebot.Designer.vb
[...]
Me.HtmlTextBox1.Bindings.Add(New Telerik.Reporting.Binding("Location", "=setLocation(10)"))
        Me.HtmlTextBox1.Location = New Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.PointU(New Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.Unit(0, Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.UnitType.Cm), New Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.Unit(0.31999999284744263, Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.UnitType.Cm))
        Me.HtmlTextBox1.Name = "HtmlTextBox1"
        Me.HtmlTextBox1.Size = New Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.SizeU(New Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.Unit(6.9000000953674316, Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.UnitType.Cm), New Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.Unit(2.1999998092651367, Telerik.Reporting.Drawing.UnitType.Cm))
        resources.ApplyResources(Me.HtmlTextBox1, "HtmlTextBox1")
[...]

This causes the following error in preview:
An error has occured while processing HtmlTextBox 'HtmlTextBox1':
The expression contains undefined function call setLocation().

I think I did the same as you did in your files (with the difference its vb.net not c#)
Can you see what I do wrong?

Thanks a lot
Roland
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Peter
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answered on 20 Jul 2010, 06:31 AM
Hello Roland Meier,

Your User Function expects Double while you are providing Integer data type thus the reporting engine is looking for an User Function setLocation(ByVal x As Integer). To avoid this you have to use the build in cast function CDbl() in the Bindings Expression: setLocation(CDbl(10))

Kind regards,
Peter
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answered on 22 Jul 2010, 05:51 AM
works great - thanks!
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