Report Globalization

[aabdan]

hello,
i see demo of report globalization it's look fine, but i  would like to ask about
if the report columns can be reordered from LTR to RTL when i change language from english to arabic as an example.
e.g if order of columns in english report layout as ProductNo,ProductDescreption then when i change to arabic the order will be
ProductDescription,ProduactNo.
and ii would ask if i can change columns header (ProductNo,ProductDescription) to proper language like arabic

Thanks and best regards

[Chavdar]

Hello LPW,

Localization of the reports refers to the text in TextBox report items rather than the report layout. If you wish to rearrange the report layout for a specific culture you will have to make a new report.

More about the report localization you can read from the Localizing Reports article.

Kind regards,
Chavdar
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[aabdan]

Dear Chavdar,
i want to ask if you will do it in near future, because our requirements to enable user to select the language from same report

Kind regards,
Ahmad 

[Chavdar]

Hi LPW,

We will log your request and consider including it in a future version. Unfortunately at this moment we could not engage ourselves with a particular time frame for this task.

Sorry for the temporary inconvenience. Do let us know if you have other questions.

Best wishes,
Chavdar
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[Fatima Mohey]

is this feature (changing report layout direction due to culture) still not supported?!!!

[Steve]

Hello Fatima,

Unfortunately we have not been able to work on that feature as of yet due to other pending features/issues and we cannot state a particular version or Q when it would be part of the product. Once we start working on this feature, it would be part of the Reporting RoadMap.

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Steve
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[Sebastien AUROUX]

After one year and half, do have a more precise idea of when you ll support right to left in telerik reporting ?

[Steve]

Hello Sebastien,

As stated in previous reply, we cannot engage with a time frame and once we start working on this task, it would be duly noted in our Roadmap.

Greetings,
Steve
the Telerik team

[أشرف]

Reversing table columns order can be done easily using the report objects API.

Here's an extension method I wrote to reverse columns order for switching between RTL and LTR:

public static class TableExtensions
    {
        public static void Reverse(this Table instance)
        {
            var tableBody = instance.Body;
            var rowsCount = tableBody.Rows.Count;
            var columnsCount = tableBody.Columns.Count;
            var columnsHalfCount = columnsCount / 2;

            columnsCount--;

            for(int rowIndex = 0; rowIndex < rowsCount; rowIndex++)
            {
                for(int columnsIndex = 0; columnsIndex < columnsHalfCount; columnsIndex++)
                {
                    var cell = tableBody[rowIndex, columnsIndex].ReportItem;
                    var alternateCell = tableBody[rowIndex, columnsCount - columnsIndex].ReportItem;

                    tableBody.SetCellContent(rowIndex, columnsIndex, alternateCell);
                    tableBody.SetCellContent(rowIndex, columnsCount - columnsIndex, cell);
                }
            }

            var reversedGroups = instance.ColumnGroups.Reverse().ToList();

            instance.ColumnGroups.Clear();

            foreach(var item in reversedGroups)
                instance.ColumnGroups.Add(item);
        }
    }