Hello,
I've seen it in the WPF report viewer, that I'm using, perhaps the problem is also in other report viewers.
When the report viewer is loading the report, the number of pages is increasing until the report is fully loaded. If I change the page number before the report is fully loaded, the displayed page is reset to 1 when the report is fully loaded!
To view the problem, you need to have a big report that takes enough time to load, so you can change the displayed page before it is fully loaded.
Regards
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Hello Patrick,
This behavior is caused by the fact that our engine doesn't support dynamic paging, instead, it waits for the whole data should be fetched at the report's generation. This is required for some of the reporting functionalities (such as PageCount for example) to work correctly and thus you need to wait for the whole report to finish loading.
With that being said, the UX for the report loading could be improved. We currently have such a feature request, however, it is only with regards to the web viewers - Improve the web report viewers' UX when loading a report.
You may make an FR for the desktop viewers too, explaining how you would the UX/UI to be while the report finishes loading - Progress® Telerik® Reporting Feedback Portal.
Regards,
Dimitar
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Hello Dimitar,
I understand that some functionnalities cannot be available until the report is fully loaded.
But I'm just talking of the current page that is reset to 1. Why don't you just leave it at its current value?
Regards
Hi Patrick,
I tested navigating to another page while the report was loading. However, until the whole report was not loaded, I was not able to change the page. As my colleague, Dimitar suggested, I would also recommend logging a feature request for the desired behavior.
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Hi Neli,
Really strange that you can't change the page until the report is fully loaded! How do you try to change it? In my case, I just use the buttons to display the next page.
Hi Patrick,
I continued with testing and eventually, I was able to reproduce the behavior. I discussed the case with our development team and we agreed that this is a valid feature request- Keep the currently navigated page after the report is loaded completely. For that reason, I logged it on your behalf and voted for it. Once there is an update on the status, you will receive a notification.