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Revathy
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Revathy asked on 31 May 2007, 10:27 AM
Hi,
1. Is it possible to change the report definition after compilation in Telerik Reporting?
2.Also, to be able to add new report definitions after compilation

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Ivan
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answered on 31 May 2007, 06:03 PM
Hi Revathy,

At the present time you can use Telerik Reporting API to create and modify reports at runtime. Using the API you can create a new report; add, remove and modify report items; and "run" reports to populate them with data. This way you can create interactive reports that should fill your client's needs.

Unfortunately, in the current version we have not provided a way to use outer storage (for example a xml-file) for report definitions, nor a standalone editor for such report definition files. This feature will nevertheless be added in one of the future versions of Telerik Reporting.

Let us know if you have other questions.

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Ivan
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Hakan Tüzün
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answered on 26 Feb 2008, 09:27 AM
Hi,
We are interesting this point and we are using Telerik Reporting Q3 2007. This thread was opened 8 months ago our questions are,
 
- Haw can i load a saved report dynamically at run time?
- Is there any progress about save a report definition in outer storage (like xml-file) 
- When will your Report object (Telerik.Reporting.Report)  be supporting serializing / deserializing with soap or binary formatter or other way to serialize.

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Svetoslav
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answered on 28 Feb 2008, 10:02 AM
Hi Hakan Tüzün,

Currently Telerik Reporting report are .NET classes. As such they are usually compiled in a .NET assembly and in runtime they are instantiated, initialized with data and later processed by the Telerik Reporting engine.

You can instantiate one report (like any .NET class) in several ways:
  • with the new operator
  • with Reflection through the Activator.CreateInstance() method
Regarding the XML - there are still several things to be trimmed in order to allow the seamless  serialization/deserialization in XML of a Telerik Report. As soon as we have any progress on this it will be included in the next version's roadmap.

Sincerely yours,
Svetoslav
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Marcos
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answered on 11 Jul 2008, 07:47 PM
Save n load the report definitions from a xml file for example would be really good.

Actually I'm figuring out if i use the API to do it with my own hands or if wait for the Telerik Reporting release with this feature.
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Svetoslav
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answered on 14 Jul 2008, 09:21 AM
Hello Marcos,

Currently there is no built-in support for serializing/de-serializing Telerik Reports in XML. Anyway our short term plans are to provide such in the next 6 months. Up until then you have to use the Telerik Report API and create your own serialization mechanism.

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Svetoslav
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