Generate Different Levels in Table of Contents

[Travis]

I have a bunch of tables from different data sources where I want to group certain tables into a Level of the Table of Contents. There is no repeating tables\data\structure to these. According to the documentation on the Table of Contents:

"To form a hierarchical structure of the TOC, you need to set the TocText property of the report groups, the CrossTab/Table groups, the Detail section and the Report (useful for SubReports)"

It seems the only way to have anything beyond level 1 is to use Report Groups, CrossTab\Table groups or the Detail Section.

As mentioned, I have no repeating data, which makes Report Groups wrong.

None of this is from a single data source, so table groups is out, unless a ridiculous implementation is done where each section somehow gets its own group.

Detail section would mean each and every group would need to be a different SubReport. While this would work, I feel it is a work around and not a valid solution as SubReports are for modularization\re-usability, of which none of these will be used again.

Why can there not be a TOCLevel along with TOCText or hierarchical structure interpreted from stacking panels, as the tool-tip of Panels states it is a "grouping mechanism for organizing report items" ?

 

Thanks for the input and help.

[Todor]

Hi Mike,

The Table Of Contents is designed to reflect data hierarchy, not report items hierarchy.
The TOC level is indeed set automatically based on the hierarchical structure of the report sections/items/groups.

Feel free to log the requirement for introducing a TocLevel along with the TocText property as a feature request in our feedback portal.

Regards,
Todor
Progress Telerik

[Travis]

Hi Todor,

Thanks for the link, i've opened a request.

~Mike