I am a newbie
I have a report which actually shows only different data from different objects, one for every type. So: Organisation.Name, Organisation.Code, Ticket.Number ... only one. So I have decided to build variables: OrganisatioName, OrganisationCode, TicketNumber ... and simply assign them one by one. Seemed less complex as defining the business objects within the report.
But... one property is a List .
Now, I can of course "string[].Join()" it, and then assign it, and in the report I "string.Split" it and then use the elements in a used-defined function, which returns what I actually want to present. Ok.
But, if I do this, I will have to use a special char or combination of chars in the program which uses the report, to separate the strings. And I feel unconfortable about this, because those strings come from the end-user. I would prefer to avoid a "coding / decoding" of any kind. I very much would like to be able to say something like:
StiReport report = new StiReport();
report.Load(...);
report.Compile();
(...)
report["Attendees"] = new List { "att1", "att2" }; // Of course the real list of strings comes from elsewhere.
(...)
report.Render();
How can I go as near as possible from this, how should I define the list of strings in the report designer, so that I use it as a list of strings (or similar) there, and assign it as such in the main project which renders the report?
If you can help, I would be grateful
Bye!
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Update: I actually came up with it:
using System.Collections.Generic;
(...)
public List Attendees { get; set; }
In the report, then I can really write:
report["Attendees"] = new List {"firstone", "secondone"};
In the using project.
I have no more preview
but I think I can fight to correct this, and it is anyway another subject matter.