Being able
to link reports it’s really handy feature that usually the end users of our
system will love it.
You can get the source code of NRapid from here
For
instance, you can create a report that that displays order’s headers and when
the users click on the order’s id, he/she can see a child report with the order’s
detail.
In this
case I’m going to work with categories and products but the technique can be
applied to any master-detail scenario.
First of
all we need to create a report that shows the list of categories (we already
did that in a previous post, so I’m not going into details here) and then
somehow link this report with a report that show a list products for a specific
category.
This might
sound complex, but with NRapid is pretty straightforward and only will take you
just a line of code inside the configure method:
*There’s
also a cool feature inside NRapid reports that allows us to run arbitrary c#
code when the user clicks a link but this feature deserves his own post ;)
What does
this code does, well, basically it tells to the report engine that the cells
inside the column “Cat. Id” are special and must associate callbacks to them,
this will give us the ability to handle the user click.
If you
execute the report, you will see that now the category’s ids are links not
plain text.
In our
case, those links (callbacks) will being pointing to the method ShowProductsByCategory
wich we will be using to execute the child report (in this case, products by
category). The code to do that may look something like this:
If you take
a look at the code, you’ll see that category’s Id was magically passed to our
callback method. In future posts I’ll be covering some of the internals of
NRapid and we will take a deep dive into those kinds of tricks.
When you
run the report, you should see something like this:
In the next post I'll show you how to add footers to our reports.
You can get the source code of NRapid from here
And the sample app from here
The Northwind database is available from download at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23654
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