hiya,

I have an app where the user needs to be able to "print" the data that is on the winform.
The data is mostly comboboxes and datagridViews.
Is this possible using the new reporting tool?

All I want to do is create a faithful reproduction (on a printed sheet), of what the user sees on the winform.

Any advice much appreciated,

cheers,

yogi

It is our pleasure to announce the availability of the second CTP of telerik Reporting. Based on the feedback we got from the first version, we managed to improve the product and significantly enhance its feature set.

Here is a list of the more important changes we have done in CT2:

1. Improved cascading styles
2. Added CSS-like stylesheets that represent a set of global styles, which are applied to report items that match a given pattern:
   • Matches item's type (TypeSelector)
   • Matches item's property value (AttributeSelector)
   • Matches ReportItemBase.StyleName (StyleSelector)
   • Matches item's relationship with other items in the hierarcy  (DescendantSelector)
3. Export to PDF.
4. The following events have been added:
   • ReportItemBase.ItemDataBinding - fired before the item is databound
   • ReportItemBase.ItemDataBound - fired after the item is databound
   • ReportItemBase.PreRender - fired before the item is rendered
   • Report.NewPage - fired when a new page begins rendering (valid only for rendering formats that support paging - PDF/Image/HTML)
5. Design-time improvements:
   • Data Explorer ToolWindow
   • Report Explorer ToolWindow
   • Improved WebViewer design-time support
6. Added 2 new examples.
7. Fixed various installation problems

Download now!

Your feedback on CTP2 will be appreciated through the telerik Reporting beta Forum!

You can learn more on the upcoming Reporting tool at http://www.telerik.com/reporting


Sincerely yours,
the telerik team

Hi there:
I need to combine the values of two fields in my datarecord into a single combined string into a textbox in my details section. I expect to do this in the databound of the textbox. Is there a way to get access to the datarecord from the datasource? If nothing else can I retrieve the unique key of the record so I can pull the fields manually, allthough it is not prefered?

Thanks

Hi there,
i have a textbox in the groupHeaderSection1 called ResourceDivision. I am trying to test out the callbacks on the sections to see how to manipulate the data in the textbox.

The datafield property of the textbox is set up to pull text from the datasource, and it is displaying the text from the datarecord properly.

However..
1) I'd expect ResourceDivision.text content to be the dynamic content from the data record when stopping at breakpoints in the debugger in all callbacks. At least in one of the callbacks listed below? It isnt: it is showing the default text that's defined in the property panel for the textbox.
Looks like the data actually only gets bound to the textboxes AFTER the callbacks are triggered? Help?

2) I'd expected to be able to modify the data in the textbox through the callbacks, but since it seems to the actual binding is happening AFTER the callbacks it is actually overwritten with the actual datarecord's content.



private void groupHeaderSection1_ItemDataBinding(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

this.ResourceDivision.Text += "-1";

//this is nor reflected anywhere?

}

private void groupHeaderSection1_ItemDataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

this.ResourceDivision.Text += "-2";

//this is nor reflected anywhere?
}

private void detail_ItemDataBinding(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

this.ResourceDivision.Text += "-3";

//this is nor reflected anywhere?
}

private void detail_ItemDataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

this.ResourceDivision.Text += "-4";

//this is nor reflected anywhere?
}

Thanks,
Eric

In my project I want to be able to give the user the ability to select which data get put on the report, would I be able to do that? Example: I have a report where every element is defined, Look, Feel, Heading, colums, footers, pictures area. Now there are a few areas where the report designer does not know what data to put there in that case a place holder with a DopDownComboBox is provided for the user to select the missing data then click on the report submit button to call the viewer to view the result, Can the CTP Report handle this request?

Hi,
I created a simple report with couple of pages.
When i'm exporting to tiff file, only the first page is exproted, even when i'm exporting from other page (page 2 or 3 for example). Is there any way to export a page which is not the first page ?  

Hello,

I have been testing the report tool in a web project for a while now and I have a couple of questions.

1. Will it be possible to have several (not nested) Groups and specify different datasources and Details Sections? I have some scenarios where each group would contain completly different items and "columns" but still we want to have them on the same page (and report).

2. I have three textboxes (a textbox on each "row" below each other) and have been testing the CanShrink property. Let's say the first textbox is empty but the other two are not, is it possible that the other two textboxes 'move up', the second textbox takes the first textbox place etc? I know I can solve this problem and merge the three fields into just one field before it reaches the report and only have one (multiline)-textbox, but it's not so elegant.

3. In the next release, will it be possible to print the whole report and not just the current page?

Regards
Kenneth

I have evaluated SQL Reporting server, DevExpress Report and Comonpnet one report. I suggest you to increase your competitiveness by comparing with those products. Frankly, Devexpress is the best one so far, but it is still far from my expectation. so I am expecting you are much more powerful than them, otherwise you cannot make your product stand out and I am not considered using it as well..Reporting server is not scalable because it is relying on IIS and IIS has a thread pool limtation and time out problem. Reporting server is too slow in getting a large PDF as well and It has a poor programatic model with .Net

So this is my feedback
1. Too slow even without generating the PDF, I cannot imagine if you have a very large PDF. Please compare with some fast PDF generator and you will see

2 . Too few features, most of the reports tool I evaluated out there has too few features.

I can see so far your product is not a revolution compared with other products, just a cloning of another product, why would I spend money on it..

Here is my suggestion
The design of seperating the layers between the  middle  layer and the conversion of different file types from that middle layer is good in abstraction, but it is a huge performance drawback. Sometimes we want to bypass that layer and get the report done faster.

In my company, most reports are in pdf

When installing the Reporting tools I receive an error message saying "Unable to detect a running instance of SQL Server 2005".  I have SQL Server 2005 (full version - not express) installed and running on my computer.  Is there anything that I am missing when doing the install or does the CTP only work with SQL Server 2005 Express?

Thank you!

I've successfully installed the CTP. I'm probably missing the obvious but how do you add group headings and footers?

Also, what do the "Report Explorer" and "Data Explorer" items do under the Teleric menu? I see blank windows and that's it.