We are currently evaluating the Telerik reporting tools for our Silverlight application. Thus, I want to share my experiences with the community and ask some questions about potentially missing features.
Scenario / Problem : We need a component to print the content of a telerik schedule view component which is holding an overview of employee's vacancies. Therefore, we thought that the Gantt chart report perfectly fits our needs. However, I didn't manage to transfere the data in the schedule view to the Gantt diagramm. The main reason is that the Gantt diagramm cannot show several timeslots alligned horizontally or am I mistaken? I couldn't find any example or entry in this forum dealing with this. We can add a second series to a chart, but this will not allign horizontally. In the end, the chart appears like a horizontal bar chart rather than a real Gantt chart.
This disqualifies the reporting components for our project. Another (minor) drawaback is that there is not end-user report designer (Well, I knew this before, since it is written in the "known limitations" section)
Are there any plans to improve the Gannt chart or implement a scheduler reporting item in the future? I can imagine that the main reason against changing the gantt chart is the compatibility between the chart types. However, this is limiting the Gantt chart to a degree where it gets useless for most applications in my oppinion.
Footnote: During our evaluation we had the problem that no chart was generate, but all other elements were rendered correctly. After several ours we figured out that the configuration of the WCF web service was not correct. It would have saved us a lot of time if there were an exception at this point or something else which point developers to the source of this problem.
Scenario / Problem : We need a component to print the content of a telerik schedule view component which is holding an overview of employee's vacancies. Therefore, we thought that the Gantt chart report perfectly fits our needs. However, I didn't manage to transfere the data in the schedule view to the Gantt diagramm. The main reason is that the Gantt diagramm cannot show several timeslots alligned horizontally or am I mistaken? I couldn't find any example or entry in this forum dealing with this. We can add a second series to a chart, but this will not allign horizontally. In the end, the chart appears like a horizontal bar chart rather than a real Gantt chart.
This disqualifies the reporting components for our project. Another (minor) drawaback is that there is not end-user report designer (Well, I knew this before, since it is written in the "known limitations" section)
Are there any plans to improve the Gannt chart or implement a scheduler reporting item in the future? I can imagine that the main reason against changing the gantt chart is the compatibility between the chart types. However, this is limiting the Gantt chart to a degree where it gets useless for most applications in my oppinion.
Footnote: During our evaluation we had the problem that no chart was generate, but all other elements were rendered correctly. After several ours we figured out that the configuration of the WCF web service was not correct. It would have saved us a lot of time if there were an exception at this point or something else which point developers to the source of this problem.
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Hello Stefan,
Peter
the Telerik team
We are currently working on Silverlight end user designer and we hope to be able to deliver a first version by the end of the year. About your chart suggestions we do have plans for major chart improvements and we will have your suggestion in mind. In the meantime our suggestion is to use Silverlight 4+ build in printing functionality.
Greetings,Peter
the Telerik team
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