I need to develop a report that has dynamic data on the first page and static data on additional pages. Is this possible with Telerik Reporting? I don't see how I can do this from one report in the designer. If not, is there a way I can group multiple reports into one PDF file?

We are migrating from VB6 and COM to .Net.   We currently use ActiveReports 2.0 (not .Net).   There are some things we use with AR that I'm not sure that I see in Telerik Reporting.

1)  To create some forms that our customers want, we draw shapes directly onto the canvas.  Our customers want rounded page frames, for instance, so we draw circles, overlay them with rectangles to display only the appropriate quadrant, and then tangent lines across the top and sides.   I see you support drawing shapes.   Can we draw directly onto the page?   Do you support arcs in addition to full circles.

2)  We are a GIS company, so our reports often have embedded maps.   We place an ActiveX map control onto the form, draw onto it, and AR renders it quite nicely.   Is there an option to embed .Net or COM "user controls" onto your reports?   (and I don't know if AR .Net supports this either).    If not, I assume we can embed an image from a file in the Temp folder, and proceed that way?

3)  We don't use a database connection.    We pass in collections of business objects, and in the AR data load event, we iterate to the next object in the collection and manually load the data fields.    We'll be able to do something like that with Telerik?   And, if we choose to use disconnected Datasets, we can create views and bind the report to the views?

Thanks.    I would really like to find an alternative to AR.    I hate that application, but it utltimately does get the job done.

Hi,

I just start to try the new Telerik reporting tool. Because I didn't know how to start I opened the (http://www.telerik.com/help/reporting) and used the tutorial "Creating a simple report". On the top of that page is a note you can do the same for a web applications, so I decided to go that way (because that is what I want to do). But after doing the first 3 points I got stuck. My telerik web controls didn't want to load anymore, and the designer for the telerik report was not there. I only could see the source.

So I went searching for the problem (with the examples that are with the install). I started a new applicaton and did exactly the same what they said in the tutorial, and indeed, there was no problem. When I did the same for a new web application I got the same error (no designer).

After searching I found out the control don't automaticly add the assemblies like he do for a windows application. So you have add the references by yourself:

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So maybe it's a good idea to put this in the tutorial as well because there will be a lot people interested in that didn't like the Crystal Clear reports but want to use the telerik reporting, and they will all have the same error.

I hope this helps for you guys!

Kevin

Hi,

I just finished my first report!! Hoeray :)
Now I want to generate a PDF from it or print it out.
But for an unknown reason the page just load blanco and do nothing when I press on the generate button.

Did I forget something?

Thnx,
Kevin

Does the reporting package need to be installed on the webserver or can you just copy over dlls?

Is there a way to use a designed report as a data coloection form? Perhaps exporting the control layout and data bindings to something that could be used in the VS designer interface?

Hello,

I have a pretty basic question.

I have a SubReport. I want to access items when they are being "DataBound", so I wired the SubReport's ItemDataBound inside the document I use as the SubReport (and not inside the main report's SubReport item).

Is this the correct way to do it?

Thanks,

Ricardo

Hi,

Suppose I have a report made up of several subreports. A number of these subreports need to use the same piece of data queried from a database. Is it possible to only query the data once (i.e. in the master report) and then access it within each subreport as opposed to each subreport having to retrieve the data itself?

Thanks

Hello,

First, let me say Telerik Reports has been great. I'm glad I switched from Crystal Reports.

Now my question is this. I have a report that displays details in a subreport. In the subreport. Each detail row has a set of values I need to access and then display a value based on those values. The problem is I don't know how to access the DataItems of the subreport so that I can extract the value that I need.

Thanks for your help,

Ricardo

Added a group to a report and now recieve this error. Unclear what it really needs.

'table' argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: table

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.ArgumentNullException: 'table' argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: table

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[ArgumentNullException: 'table' argument cannot be null. Parameter name: table] System.Data.DataTableCollection.BaseAdd(DataTable table) +1765465 System.Data.DataTableCollection.Add(DataTable table) +97 Telerik.Reporting.Data.ReportDataSourceAdapter.TransformDataSource(DataSet dataSet) +528 Telerik.Reporting.Data.ReportDataSource.GetResolvedDataSet() +97 Telerik.Reporting.Processing.Report.CreateReportDataSet() +41 Telerik.Reporting.Processing.Report.ProcessReportContent() +10 Telerik.Reporting.Processing.Report.ProcessItem() +168 Telerik.Reporting.Processing.ReportProcessor.ProcessReport(Report reportDefinition) +57 Telerik.Reporting.Processing.ReportProcessor.Render(String format, Report reportDefinition, Hashtable deviceInfo, CreateStream createStramCallback) +81 Telerik.ReportViewer.WebForms.ServerReport.Render(HttpResponse response, String format, Int32 pageNumber, Boolean refresh) +833 Telerik.ReportViewer.WebForms.ReportPageOperation.PerformOperation(NameValueCollection urlQuery, HttpResponse response) +72 Telerik.ReportViewer.WebForms.HttpHandler.System.Web.IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) +118 System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +154 System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +64