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Regarding Subreports
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Regarding Infragistics Netadvantage Reporting CTP,  does this software have support to add subreport to a main report? If not, when are you planning to add this feature.

Thanks.

 

  • 270
    posted

    I'd be interested in getting an answer to this question as well.

    • 2848
      posted in reply to Aaron

      Hi,

      11.2 will not support sub-reports.

      We are discussing sub-reports for the next version, and we have mixed feelings. With most tools, people use sub-reports to overcome limitations in the tool itself, perhaps because it does not handle well hierarchical data, or similar things. They are also used for reusing parts in multiple reports.

      We think we should not need them to 'overcome limitations'. We should handle those scenarios in the tool itself, making it easy/possible to build. For example, some tools require that you use sub-reports for master-detail reports, which is not the case with NetAdvantage Reporting.

      We'll need something similar to sub-reports for reusing (e.g. having the same header in all the reports), so our current plan is to design something that solves that problem well.

      We are in early stages of the design so all feedback is welcome.

      Thanks,

      Andres

      • 2848
        posted in reply to Andrew Brodie

        Hi Andrew,

         

        With the Hierarchical Data feature in Reporting 12.2 you can achieve what you want. You need to load the data into a data structure with the hierarchy you want to display in the report. That hierarchy can have any number of nested levels (e.g. a parent with 3 children, which 3 children each one). Once you add a data source bound to that class, you can drop it in the design surface and you'll get the report you'd expect.

        I hope it helps,

        Andres.

         

        • 20
          posted in reply to [IG] Andrés Aguiar

          The suggestion that joining data into one larger data set, then using hierarchies to essentially unjoin data seems extremely short sighted.  Sub reports are useful when you have a report header at one level and multiple detail records that are all direct foreign keys to one header.  Joining this into a hierarchy and attempting to present it in a user consumable fashion seems backwards.  A simple example may be taken as a relationship between a Team-Player-Office Staff-Fans-Alumni, with Team as the head, you could have details sub reports in 4 quadrants of the 1 level sibling records.  Joining this data is easy, but it is a 2 level hierarchy with 5 entities, essentially the application of sub reports for the past 25 years?

          I'm confused how this is thought of as a work around?

          • 1118
            posted in reply to James

            My last post was 10/18, now 10/26. What's the status with me getting Reporting 12.2?

            • 1118
              posted in reply to Lucia Rodriguez

              Definitely, yes! Is that the version that's being released in November?

              • 3070
                posted in reply to James

                Hi,

                Reporting 12.2 is planned to be released mid-November. You will be able to install it as part of your Ultimate 12.2 subscription once it is released.

                If you want to have an early version before the release, please let me know.

                Best,

                Leo