Automatically launch new report wizard?

Lynn · Post by **Lynn** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:17 am

Is there any way to tell the StiWebDesigner to automatically launch the new report wizard UI when it opens?

This is my code for working with a new report:

StiReport stiReport = new StiReport();
WebDesigner1.Design(stiReport);

Are there any properties on the report or the designer which would cause the wizard to launch without the user needing to initiate the action?

Post by **Edward** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:27 am

Hi,

In the prerelease build from the next week the following options will be available:

Stimulsoft.Report.Web.StiWebDesignerOptions.ShowWizardOnStartup = true;

Thank you.

Lynn · Post by **Lynn** » Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:59 pm

Would it be possible to set this on the designer directly rather then as a system wide static property? We need the wizard show on startup for new reports only.

I have wraped the code in a lock statement to prevent cross threading issues with this property, but that isn't a good solution.

Post by **Andrew** » Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:17 am

Hello,

We will duplicate this feature with appropriate property of the StiWebDesigner component.

Thank you.

Lynn · Post by **Lynn** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:43 am

I switched our code to use the ShowWizardOnStartup property on the StiWebDesigner and the wizard is not coming up when it is set to true.

Post by **Andrew** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:03 am

Hello,

We have checked the latest prerelease build and the found that the ShowWizardOnStartup="true" property works as expected.
Maybe you set the value of the property directly from the code, but not on the aspx page. Please use the OnPreInit event for this:

protected override void OnPreInit(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnPreInit(e);
StiWebDesigner1.ShowWizardOnStartup = true;
}

Thank you.

Lynn · Post by **Lynn** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:19 am

Setting the property in OnPreInit does work for me.

Unfortunately at this point I do not have access to the data I need to set the property.

I will continue to use the global setting inside a lock statement for the time being.

Thanks.

Post by **Andrew** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 1:01 am

Hello,

Unfortunately, there are no other ways to do this, because the Flash application is loaded before the Init event, where there is no access to properties, which are defined be a user.

Thank you.