Compiled report question

[jay@bplogix.com]

After I call GetReportFromAssembly to load a pre-compiled report, can I add variables, and datasources via C# still? Or is that only available for reports that load .MRT files?

[Alex K.]

Hello,

You can use the following code:

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report.Dictionary.Variables.Add();
report.Dictionary.DataSources.Add();

Thank you.

[jay@bplogix.com]

That does not seem to work for compiled reports.
No matter what variables I add/change, running a compiled report does not see the variables. I have tried changing the variables value in the report.Dictionary.Variables collection in the dictionary, and the running report does not see the changes.

I am just placing a variable in the header like this {var1}

I even do a
report.Dictionary.Variables.Clear();
but when I run the report it still "sees" the variables that were there when the report was compiled (I would have expected a runtime error).

Setting/changing variables works perfectly when I use report.Load, so are you sure StiReport.GetReportFromAssembly supports changing variables after a compiled report (.dll) is loaded?

Jay

[Alex K.]

Hello,

In this case, you can use the following code to get access to variables or datasources:

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report["Variable1"] = ;
report["DataSourceName"] = ;
...

Thank you.

[jay@bplogix.com]

That syntax for variables seems to work better ... but it only allows setting of strings (instead of StiVariable). I have A LOT of logic that manipulates the variables collection with code like this:
report.Dictionary.Variables[TempName] = new StiVariable(null, TempName, TempName, typeof(string), entry._sText, true);

Is there any reason manipulating the report.Dictionary.Variables directly does not work for compiled reports?

Thanks,
Jay

[Ivan]

Hello,

[quote="jay"@bplogix.com]That syntax for variables seems to work better ... but it only allows setting of strings [/quote]
We couldn't reproduce this bug.
Can you please send us a simple test project, which reproduce the issue?

[quote="jay"@bplogix.com]Is there any reason manipulating the report.Dictionary.Variables directly does not work for compiled reports?[/quote]
In compiled report all variables are compiled to class members, so you can not override them.

Thank you.