How to bind Sub Report to Main Report's Data

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AUTHOR: Stephania Tapela

DATE POSTED: May 30, 2016

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HOW TO
How to bind Sub Report to Main Report's Data.

SOLUTION 
Telerik Reporting Expression engine allows you to reuse the data of a parent scope. This includes binding a sub report to the main report's data.

For the purpose, open the sub report designer and use the following binding to the report's DataSource property:
Property path: DataSource
Expression: =ReportItem.DataObject

When the sub report is loaded by a SubReport item in the main report, the sub report will get the data associated with the SubReport item.

You can change the scope to a greater parent by using the Parent keyword. For example:
Property path: DataSource
Expression: =ReportItem.Parent.Parent.DataObject


*More details can be found in How to use the ReportItem.DataObject property in expressions.
**In case you need to display data in a tabular format, another approach for organizing the main report's layout can be found in How to Databind to Collection Properties.

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