Report viewer error with textbox

[Andy]

I have a single report viewer that I use to show multiple reports. In each of the reports I have a text box called FooterTextBox which places text with the footer of the report at run time. I get errors in the Error List: 'FooterTextBox' is not  a member of 'Telerik.Reporting.Report' of the VS 2010 IDE.

If I ignore the errors during build time the program runs fine and can change the footer text with no issues. However when I am building additional reports the build fails (in the preview) unless I comment out these lines ?        

If Me.FooterTextbox.Text <> "" Then
            myReport.FooterTextBox.Value = Me.FooterTextbox.Text
        Else
            myReport.FooterTextBox.Value = "Printed copies are uncontrolled documents."
        End If 


Report code:

        Dim myReport As Telerik.Reporting.Report = Nothing
        Select Case ReportDDL.SelectedItem.Value
            Case "OSHAItembyPersonnelReport"
                myReport = New OSHAItembyEmployeeReport
                Exit Select
            Case "OSHAItems"
                myReport = New OSHAItems
                Exit Select
            Case "OSHAItemDue"
                myReport = New OSHAItemDue
                Exit Select
        End Select
        Me.ReportViewer1.Report = myReport

        If Me.FooterTextbox.Text <> "" Then
            myReport.FooterTextBox.Value = Me.FooterTextbox.Text
        Else
            myReport.FooterTextBox.Value = "Printed copies are uncontrolled documents."
        End If

        Me.ReportViewer1.RefreshReport()
        Me.ReportViewer1.Report = myReport

[Elian]

Hi Andy,

The FooterTextBox should be a private variable and nothing outside of the report shouldn't be aware of it. 
One way to do this is to pass a parameter to the reports which will determine the value of this textbox. The other way is to access the TextBox in a slightly different way:

Dim txtBox = TryCast(myReport.Items("reportFooterSection1").Items("FooterTextBox"), Telerik.Reporting.TextBox)

By using the Items collection you can access all elements of the report hierarchically (if the textBox is in the page footer, then you need to access the page footer first). Kind regards,
Elian
the Telerik team

[Andy]

Thanks worked like a charm. I'm still new to Vb.net so I am learning as I go.