Telerik Reporting Using ASP NET MVC

[Aubrey Ivan]

I am following this guide -> https://docs.telerik.com/reporting/mvc-report-viewer-extension-embedding

Hi, I am new in telerik reporting and I am getting some errors.

Here is the Scenario:
I created an empty ASP .NET MVC Application and I am trying to output the reportViewer I created. This is what I selected
I chose the sample report definition.
After that it generated 3 files. A ReportsController, a trdp file and a cshtml file

 1. I created a HomeController, and renamed the Action "Index" to "Reports".
 2. I Renamed the cshtml file to "Reports.cshtml" and putted it under the Views/Home Folder.
 3. Then I created a folder under the Controllers folder called "api" so it now looks like this Controllers/api and moved the ReportsController to that "api" folder
 4. I also changed the default route action from "index" -> "reports"


Problem: Whenever I run my program, nothing shows at all. Its just an empty page. What am I doing wrong?

 

Note: I also posted this question here -> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58600533/telerik-reporting-using-asp-net-mvc

[Neli]

Hello Aubrey,

I noticed that you've opened a support ticket on the same topic. I will summarize our communication also here for the benefit of our community.

In case you added the HTML5 MVC Report Viewer through the Item template, then the REST service should be automatically created. If there is nothing on the page, I suspect that there is something wrong with the routes or maybe you navigate to the wrong page. You can also check for any errors with the browser's console and use Fiddler to follow the exact requests from the viewer to the service.

Our MVC demo can be found at C:\Program Files (x86)\Progress\Telerik Reporting <VERSION>\Examples\CSharp.

Since you mention that you are a new user of Telerik Reporting, you can take a look at our First Steps articles:

- Creating the Demo report

- Setting the page header

- Populating the table with data

- Creating the graph

- Setting the page footer

- Integrating the report in Visual Studio Application

- Parameterizing the graph

- Adding the column graph

Regards,
Neli
Progress Telerik

[Aubrey Ivan]

Hi Neli, 

I figured it out, but I am still wondering how to assign a objectDataSource to a report on runtime, do I need to add a custom resolver?

Thanks,
Ivan

[Peter]

Hello Ivan,

Yes, one of the approaches is with a Custom Report Resolver, but before that consider just to configuring the datasource with some parameters from the viewer.

Regards,
Peter
Progress Telerik