Chart/report question(s)

[igor.kersic]

Hi,

Sorry to bother but I have couple of questions about charts:

1. Do stimulsoft supports 3d charts? I didn't find anything about that.

2. Is there any more detail documentation to stimulsoft (report and .net libraries)? I still use demo version, therefore I don't know if some documentation will come when our company purchase the software. This I ask because we don't know exactly how some of the charts and properties behave when they are grouped by columns and there is no documentation for that (at least not in demo).

3. I have this case scenario -> I have a predefined .mrt report with one page and one chart, on that chart I have columns for argument and values (x,y) columns and also I have column for grouping by within the chart.
What I want to do is take the predefined report page, clone the page with the graph and create more pages with same graph with different group by column.
Or shortly : is there some defined way how to create dynamic object of report from .mrt file? I need to get the namespace and the class object for report already existing in .mrt (.cs) file dynamically and change it's structure. # but without using compiling dynamically .cs file or emitting the code or using reflection# do you have some way to report object of report from compiled report (The way I was trying to do that is create my own .dll compile .mrt into it and try to use reflection to create and instance of report, or trying to compile .cs report in runtime which really isn't the easy way)

Please advise,
Many thanks for replies,
Best regards,
Igor

[Vital]

Hello Igor,

1. Do stimulsoft supports 3d charts? I didn't find anything about that.

In current version of Stimulsoft Reports.Net you can't create 3d charts. This feature will be available in next version of our product.

2. Is there any more detail documentation to stimulsoft (report and .net libraries)? I still use demo version, therefore I don't know if some documentation will come when our company purchase the software. This I ask because we don't know exactly how some of the charts and properties behave when they are grouped by columns and there is no documentation for that (at least not in demo).

You can use only documentation which present on our website. If you have any questions regarding using Sr you can ask at forum or on support@stimulsoft.com. New version of documentation will be available with next version of Stimulsoft Reports.Net - 2008.2.

3. I have this case scenario -> I have a predefined .mrt report with one page and one chart, on that chart I have columns for argument and values (x,y) columns and also I have column for grouping by within the chart.
What I want to do is take the predefined report page, clone the page with the graph and create more pages with same graph with different group by column.
Or shortly : is there some defined way how to create dynamic object of report from .mrt file? I need to get the namespace and the class object for report already existing in .mrt (.cs) file dynamically and change it's structure. # but without using compiling dynamically .cs file or emitting the code or using reflection# do you have some way to report object of report from compiled report (The way I was trying to do that is create my own .dll compile .mrt into it and try to use reflection to create and instance of report, or trying to compile .cs report in runtime which really isn't the easy way)

Yes you can add new pages in compiled report. Only one question - you need do this actions in report script or in code of your application?

Thank you.

[igor.kersic]

Hi Vital,

1.and 2. Great, thank you very much, so this will be supported and documenation will be there.

3. I need to this from the code, but I guess this would be more difficult? What I need is this scenario exactly: I have one predefined report which has x,y axis bind to data source columns and also have group by column which is bind also to data source (on one page). But I need to recreate this page (chart on this page) for as many time I have different values in group by column. So if group column has 3 different values I have to create 3 same pages base on values from group by column. Or in simple words, if group by column has many values we don't want these to be shown on one graph (as it will be to much lines, bars etc) we want this to be created on different pages (from the original page graph).
Maybe this could be more easily done from script?

Thank you very much for you patience and replies,
Igor

[Edward]

Maybe the Master - Detail relationship can help to accomplish the goal.
Let the MasterBand have a zero height and defines number of the pages which will be produced.
MasterBand.StartNewPage = true;
On the detail band you may place the chart component and set the necessary parameters for it in the BeforePrintEvent of the DetailBand.
'Data From Other DataSource' DataSource can be used for generation of the DataSource for the MasterBand.

If this scenario couldn't be used, please let me know.

Thank you.