report problem

[andrea]

Hi,
I have to create a report for many item (animal), for each animal there are a header section with general information and a detail section with the list of birth (number of children, average weight etc..).

I use report parameter to pass the animal id from my silverlight application.

I start with report for single animal: in the header and footer I insert textbox with date and animal id, in detail section I insert general animal's informations and a table with list of birth.

As datasource I use my custom class Animal that contains general information and an List<BirthInformation> called ListBirth.

I create two datasource, ds1 for the report with Animal class and ds2 for the table with birth information setting datasource to Animal and DataMember to ListBirth. I had to make the second datasource for see the member of the list ListBirth

In the report's code I use NeedDatasource event, so on constructor I put the report datasource to null, and in the event handler I use the code:

Animal a = GetAnimal(id);
this.DataSource = a;
this.table4.DataSource = a.ListBirth;  

The report work fine.

Is this correct way to work?

I need now to make the report (single) form many animal whit a page break from an animal and the next, but I don't understand if I do to use a group or a new report with this report as subreport in a table and how to set the datasource.

Thank you very much.
andrea

[Peter]

Hello andrea,

You can set table item datasource directly through binding with the following expression:

Property Path	Expression
Datasource	=ReportItem.DataObject.ListBirth

To merge multiple reports in one, our suggestion is to use a report book as shown in the following code snippet:

public class ReportBook : Telerik.Reporting.ReportBook

{

    public ReportBook()

    {

          

        var report1 = new AnimalReport();

        var report2 = new AnimalReport();

  

        this.Reports.Add(report1);

        this.Reports.Add(report2);

        Animal a1 = GetAnimal(1);

        Animal a2 = GetAnimal(2);

        this.Reports[0].DataSource = a1;

        this.Reports[0].DataSource = a2;

    }

}

All the best,
Peter
the Telerik team