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How to retrive TextBox Value After User Edit In Preview Mode

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You can use following code:
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Vital wrote:You can use following code:

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StiText text = report.RenderedPages[0].GetComponents()["Text1"] as StiText;
string value = text.Text.Value;

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Hi Vital.

This method works very well but I need something extra.

I need a way to get the original value of the StiText component using only the component returned by report.RenderedPages[0].GetComponents()["Text1"] as StiText;

Something along the lines of text.Text.OrinigalValue

The reason I need this is because my report consists of external subreports I have no way of knowing where that StiText came from, all I know is that it is editable.

I tried adding information to the StiText.Tag but the tag value is empty when I retrieve the StiText via the report.RenderedPages.

When I use report.GetComponents or report.CompiledReport.GetComponents the text.Tag contains a value.

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Unfortunately we do not have such a property in the StiText component, but you can save all editable values using the following method of the StiReport class:
Then all these values can be retrieved with the method:

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Edward wrote:Unfortunately we do not have such a property in the StiText component, but you can save all editable values using the following method of the StiReport class:

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SaveEditableFields(Stream stream)

Then all these values can be retrieved with the method:

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LoadEditableFields(Stream stream)
or
LoadEditableFields(string path)

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Hi Edward.

I had a look at the SaveEditableFields method and it does not give me enough information.

They way I am using the editable field is it loads data from a data field. Then the user can edit it and save it again. What makes it difficult is that I cannot just go save the original dataset, I have to pass the new values on to the business object and it will go update whatever is needed to save the new data.

If I can have the original source of that text eg. {CUSTOMER.NAME} and I now have the new value "John" I can go save the customer name.

This is just a simple example of what I do.

The following works if it does not have any subreports:
where t is the editable text field I got from pReport.RenderedPages(i).GetComponents

The problem is that once I have subreports i cannot use pReport.GetComponentByName(t.Name) any more. The text field does not come from this report and is not found.

I tried adding information into the Tag of the field but t.Tag.Value is always "" while oldText.Tag.Value contains the value I gave the field.

This is a very big problem for me at the moment and I will really appreciate it if you can do one of 2 things for me please:

1. Give me a way to access t.Text.OldValue (harder to do I realise but a lot better for my implementation)
2. Keep the value in t.Tag.Value when the report is rendered. (I hope this is easy)

Thanks!

I found a way to get the Tag value: