Telerik controls

[Tomasz]

Hi Telerik Team!
Our firm is considering of using telerik reports.
We are going  to show it on Sharepoint web.
We also need to manage it for example in WPF application or by SharePoint Web Part. I know there is standalone designer where we can design or modify reports, but now I have to download report.trdx modify it in standalone designer, save it and again upload it to the sharepoint.

Is there a designer as a control which I could embed in my applications?

For example I have got report.trdx on Sharepoint list, by one click I open it in
designer and after modification I save it again to the Sharepoint List.

Second question:
Is there possibility of using custom controls as a parameter value chooser? For example a tree or slider?

Best Regards
Tomek

[Stef]

Hi Tomek,

Currently we are building Telerik Reporting with .NET 4.0 (System Requirements). Thus if you use Sharepoint 2010, you have the following options:

• Use the Silverlight report viewer and host the Telerik Reporting WCF service outside SharePoint 2010 environment.
• Use the HTML5 Report Viewer and host the dedicated Reporting REST service outside the SharePoint 2010 environment.
• Use Telerik Reporting Q1 2013 SP1 version 7.0.13.426 - the last release that supports earlier than .NET4 framework versions, where you can use the ASP.NET ReportViewer. You can download the msi file after logging into your account and navigating to Products & Subscriptions - DevCraft Complete - Download - Reporting - Older Versions.

For any of the above listed viewers you can use a custom parameters area outside the viewer. Setting all report's parameters to be hidden will hide the default viewer's parameters area. Then you can add you custom UI and send the selected values. Consider the example with the HTML5 Report Viewer in How To: Pass values to report parameters.

About the available report designers, there is the integrated in Visual Studio Report Designer for development purposes and the Standalone Report Designer suitable for end-users. If you need to make modifications in browser, you can create entirely custom UI to gather the user preferences and build a report programmatically, which can be later serialized in XML and saved.

Let us know if you have any further questions.

Regards,
Stef
Telerik

 

 

[Tomasz]

Hi Stef,
Thans for reply.
I've used ASP.NET Report Viewer and it works fine. So there is no possibilities of using custom controls inside of viewer.

Building custom UI for Report Designer would be too laborious for now. We are going to use Standalone Report Designer.

Regards,
Tomek