Telerik Reporting: Create report for multiple levels of data? Use XML as the multiple-level "data source"?

[andy]

I need to create reports with 2 levels of details.  For example:

(top level):  Name, SSN, Address

    (1st level down): Account type, Account number

        (2nd level down): Deposit/Withdrawl amount, date, payee

Can the infragistics report tool perform this?

Can there be multiple parent/child/grandchild hierarchies in the same report?

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Also, can the data-source for this report be a hierarchical (in this case, 1 parent level + child levels + grandchild levels) xml file?  How is the reported to the structure of the xml file?

Thanks!

 

[Peter]

Hello Andy,

Currently our Reporting engine works with flat data sources (table-like). Thus you have to create a DataSet and fill the dataset with DataSet.ReadXml(file) method. Once the dataset is ready you have to create a relations between the generated tables. Such related tables can be represented by Master-Detail reports.

You may find useful the following help articles:

• Does Telerik Reporting support XML as a datasource?
• Connecting Telerik Reports to XML Data with the ObjectDataSource

Regards,
Peter
the Telerik team