Hi,
I've excactly the same problem as described in another post (want to achieve horizontal data) here:
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/reporting/telerik-reporting/vertical-data.aspx
I downloaded the sample but it doesn't work with the latest release (missing datasource, other design time errors without stakc trace...). It would be nice to have a description of how to solve an issue in addition to code samples.
Can you point me to the documentation page where this is described. I can only find the general desciption of Table/CrossTable/List items. Is it really neccessary to dig into all the complicated inner group / outer group / parent call... concepts if I just want to create a simple table? Well, I am sure the CrossTable item is an excellent component if you need such a complexity, but I am not sure that melting such a complex component with a standard table or easy list was such a smart idea.
Its always the same problem "complexity vs. easy-to-handle" controls. However, I am evaluating the telerik reporting tool for three days now and I spent a lot of time reading forum posts and documentation. Here is my conclusion:
First, the reporting framework is probably the best you can get on market today. You can generate and customize almost all types of reports with it. However, for someone which is new to this framework, it is incredibly hard to build a simple table from scratch (not using the wizzard). With regards to a future "end-user-designer" tool I don't think any end-user would be able to create a table this way.
Best regards,
Stefan
I've excactly the same problem as described in another post (want to achieve horizontal data) here:
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/reporting/telerik-reporting/vertical-data.aspx
I downloaded the sample but it doesn't work with the latest release (missing datasource, other design time errors without stakc trace...). It would be nice to have a description of how to solve an issue in addition to code samples.
Can you point me to the documentation page where this is described. I can only find the general desciption of Table/CrossTable/List items. Is it really neccessary to dig into all the complicated inner group / outer group / parent call... concepts if I just want to create a simple table? Well, I am sure the CrossTable item is an excellent component if you need such a complexity, but I am not sure that melting such a complex component with a standard table or easy list was such a smart idea.
Its always the same problem "complexity vs. easy-to-handle" controls. However, I am evaluating the telerik reporting tool for three days now and I spent a lot of time reading forum posts and documentation. Here is my conclusion:
First, the reporting framework is probably the best you can get on market today. You can generate and customize almost all types of reports with it. However, for someone which is new to this framework, it is incredibly hard to build a simple table from scratch (not using the wizzard). With regards to a future "end-user-designer" tool I don't think any end-user would be able to create a table this way.
Best regards,
Stefan
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Hello Stefan,
Thank you for the kind words about our product - much appreciated.
About your inquiry - the report from the referenced article works out of the box with the latest version. Most likely you have not rebuilt the project after adding the report to it. Do rebuild it and if necessary use the Upgrade Wizard to take care of any old references.
On a side note as mentioned in the Horizontal Table for your reports blog post, in Q3 SP1 2009, we've added "Rotate Layout" option to the Table item context menu for such purposes and now inverting the layout as you need it is a one step action.
Nobody claims that a CrossTab/Matrix components are easy, and in fact building one is not for an end user to do and that is why we have added Table and CrossTab Wizards.
As for the end user designer, it is a work in progress and we already have quite a few ideas how to make it easy to use, so you would have to take our word for it :)
All the best,
Steve
the Telerik team
Thank you for the kind words about our product - much appreciated.
About your inquiry - the report from the referenced article works out of the box with the latest version. Most likely you have not rebuilt the project after adding the report to it. Do rebuild it and if necessary use the Upgrade Wizard to take care of any old references.
On a side note as mentioned in the Horizontal Table for your reports blog post, in Q3 SP1 2009, we've added "Rotate Layout" option to the Table item context menu for such purposes and now inverting the layout as you need it is a one step action.
Nobody claims that a CrossTab/Matrix components are easy, and in fact building one is not for an end user to do and that is why we have added Table and CrossTab Wizards.
As for the end user designer, it is a work in progress and we already have quite a few ideas how to make it easy to use, so you would have to take our word for it :)
All the best,
Steve
the Telerik team
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