Possible to elminate use of ReportDesginer Tool

[Vi Le]

Hi,

My client would like to use your reporting tool but strictly within their web app. The reason for doing this is they need to wrap a fair amount of your reporting capabilities within their existing logic which includes context security,etc. They wish to let the end users select the reports to be run and which columns to use, etc. After reviewing your software I think we can do it, but we would have to bypass the use of your Design Time ReportDesigner. They also would not be able to use your upcoming desktop application as we have to integrate their existing code in thIs part of the reporting application.

My quesiton is this. Do you have code samples/projects that I can use as a starting point to get my going along this path. Ideally everything would be done at runtime. I would build a framework which would wrap your reporting tools for runtime use. In effect this would have to bypass the use of the ReportDesigner because everything would be setup at runtime.

Thank You

[Steve]

Hi,

You talk about creating everything programmatically at runtime, but then talk about the report designer. Is your goal to create a web based designer so that your users can design reports from your application? If that is the case, you should be aware that creating a report designer is not a trivial task at all and utilizing our designer inside a web application would not be possible. If your plan is to create your own UI to allow the user to select which data would be available, then you can refer to the Programmatic Control of Reports help article and of course the Reporting API Reference. We do not have sample projects as Telerik Reporting is an embedded engine and Telerik Reports are standard .NET classes, so utilizing the product programmatically is pretty straight-forward.

In general, our suggestion is to create the report you need via the report designer and use it as reference (InitializeComponent) whenever you're not sure how to do something programmatically.
We have attached a sample report that is generating dynamically its table definition for your reference.

You may find useful the following help articles:

• Understanding table cells, rows and columns
• Report Life Cycle

 
Kind regards,
Steve
the Telerik team