Setting an Alias for object properties

[Tobias]

When registering a plain C# object as data source, is there a way to provide alias names for the properties?

e.g. having something like:

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public class ReportDataNode
{
    [StiAlias(I18N.Tr("Name"))]
    public string Name {get; set;}

    [StiAlias(I18N.Tr("Quantity"))]
    public string Quantity {get; set;}
}

...as you see, I would like to use aliases to provide translated column/field names, depending on the users locale.

I just stumbled upon an old thread, where Edward indicated that such functionality will be available after 2008.2, but I couldn't find a hint, how this was implemented.

Tobias

[Jan]

Hello Tobias,

Please check build from 11 Jan. You can use Stimulsoft.Report.Dictionary.StiAliasAttribute.

Thank you.

[Tobias]

Thanks!

But unfortunately, it only works partially. When having nested objects, the alias is not set for child objects.
See the example below.

On the "detailOnly" dataset everything is fine and DetailProperty gets an alias.
But on the "masterDetail" dataset, the alias of the DetailProperty was not set.

Besides this: In this build the preview tab in the designer is gone, I can only do a html preview.

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public class Master
{
    [StiAlias("MasterProperty Alias")]
    public int MasterProperty { get; set; }

    public IList Details { get; set; }
}

public class Detail
{
    [StiAlias("DetailProperty Alias")]
    public int DetailProperty { get; set; }
}

...
var report = new StiReport();

var detail = new ArrayList {new Detail()};
var masterDetail = new ArrayList()
{
    new Master { Details = new ArrayList { new Detail() } }
};
report.RegData("detailOnly", detail);
report.RegData("masterDetail", masterDetail);
report.Design();
...

[Edward]

Hi Tobias,

Ok, we will check everything and will let you know our results.

Thank you.

[Jan]

Hello Tobias,

Problem fixed. Please check build from 25 Jan.

Thank you.

[Tobias]

Sorry, couldn't test it before today.

So far the StiAlias attribute seems to work fine.

Thanks a lot!

[Edward]

Hi Tobias,

Please let us know if any help is required.

Thank you.