Reporting Dashboard

[Tim]

I am in the process of converting an Access database application to a web application and now am down to the reports.  I have been able to create my report class and set up parameters for the user to specify at run time which will work for the simpler reports but some of the selection criteria and the supporting information they want to see may be too complicated for that method.  What I would really like to do is create my own reporting dashboard where they can select the report and specify the criteria then run the report.  I've been able to bind a report to a dataset returned from my reporting DAL but only with static criteria I pass in.  How can the report class read the criteria specified in a dashboard on my .aspx page to be passed to the DAL?

Tim

[Steve]

Hi Tim,

Telerik Reporting has a distinctive and easy to use API, so that passing a value to the report parameters from your application is not a problem at all e.g.:

Telerik.Reporting.Report report = (Telerik.Reporting.Report)this.ReportViewer1.Report;
report.ReportParameters["MyParam"].Value = TextBox1.Text;

Another approach is to built the query for the report on the fly and filter the database directly (i.e. without using our report params). You can review the following video for more info on that approach: Telerik Reporting - Design Time Support for Parameterized Queries.

All the best,
Steve
the Telerik team

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[Tim]

Well, that was easy!  I had actually viewed the video before but something wasn't clicking for me.  This time I got it!  Thanks Steve!