At present we are looking to add custom functions into the report designer to provide quick access to common functions when designing reports (using the web product). We are using the command 'StiFunctionsXmlParser.LoadFunctionsFromXml('pathtoxml')' to achieve this which appears to be working partially i.e. no errors are returned and if we manually type function names into an expression editor, i.e. {Test(xxx)}, then the function is called....however the function is not available for selection in the user interface (dictionary, expression editor etc) which is not very useful for our users. Are we missing something or is this a bug?
For reference the assemblies we are using are at version 2011.2.1100.0.
The XML we are using is:
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Test
Does a test init.
Target.Reports.BLL.Designer.ReportFunctions.TestFunctions
System.String
A String value.
System.String
str
date1 is the first DateTime value used in calculating the difference.
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Namespace Designer.ReportFunctions
'''
''' Class containing custom functions for testing purposes
'''
Public Class TestFunctions
Public Shared Function Test(ByVal str As String) As String
Return "Test Value"
End Function
End Class
End NamespaceCol