Setup Designer with Data

[ksimmons]

I have an MVC project that we would like to add reporting to. I want to allow users to create new mrt files within the designer and just pass the data source to it. How can I open the designer without pre-defining a report? The code below opens the designer but does not have the data source populated and just keeps throwing "Error: Internal Server Error" messages:

View:

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@Html.Stimulsoft().StiMvcMobileDesigner(
    "StimulsoftDesigner1",
    new StiMvcMobileDesignerOptions
    {
        
        ActionGetReportTemplate = "GetReportTemplate",
        ActionGetReportSnapshot = "GetReportSnapshot",
        ActionSaveReportTemplate = "SaveReportTemplate"
    })

Controller:

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        public ActionResult GetReportTemplate()
        {
            StiReport report = new StiReport();

            DataTable dt = (DataTable)Session["ReportSource"];
            report.RegData(dt);

            return StiMvcMobileDesigner.GetReportTemplateResult(HttpContext, report);
        }

        public ActionResult GetReportSnapshot()
        {
            StiReport report = StiMvcMobileDesigner.GetReportObject(HttpContext);

            // Register data, if necessary
            DataTable dt = (DataTable)Session["ReportSource"];
            report.RegData(dt);

            // Return the report snapshot result to the client
            return StiMvcMobileDesigner.GetReportSnapshotResult(HttpContext, report);
        }

        public ActionResult SaveReportTemplate()
        {
            StiReport report = StiMvcMobileDesigner.GetReportObject(HttpContext);
            report.Save(@"D:\" + report.ReportName + ".mrt");

            return StiMvcMobileDesigner.SaveReportTemplateResult(HttpContext);
        }

[HighAley]

Hello.

Please, call next method after registering data:

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report.Dictionary.Synchronize();

As about error, when do you get Internal Server Error? Could you send us a sample project?

Thank you.

[ksimmons]

Attached is the sample project. The call to Synchronize works, but it throws an error whenever I try to add something to the report (i.e. a data band, report title, etc).

[HighAley]

Hello.

You missed one necessary action. You should add it to your project.

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        public ActionResult DesignerEvent()
        {
            return StiMvcMobileDesigner.DesignerEventResult(HttpContext);
        }

Thank you.

[ksimmons]

Perfect! Thanks! I totally missed the need for it in the documentation.

[HighAley]

Hello.

We will create a greater emphasis on this in our documentation.

Thank you.