Unplanned
Last Updated: 08 Mar 2019 09:39 by ADMIN
Jason
Created on: 15 Dec 2015 18:21
Type: Feature Request
17
Better experience using Business Objects in the stand alone Report View
I had a very challenging time getting Telerik Reports to work with my business objects. I'm not the only one -- see this thread:

http://www.telerik.com/forums/how-to-use-object-data-source-in-report-designer

This could be improved by:
1. Don't make users manually edit <Telerik.Reporting>. Create a UI in the designer where DLL's can be manually selected.
2. If there are errors loading the DLL's in <Telerik.Reporting>, tell the user, rather than failing silently, which is the current behavior. Importing reports from DLL's has the same silent-failure behavior: if there's something not quite right about the DLL's (wrong architecture setting, for example), you just see "no reports to import" rather than the actual error (bad file format, or whatever).

I think a little work on the user experience around custom business objects would make new users who want to use the stand alone report designer in this way much happier. I was really surprised and frustrated that a modern product would fail like this with no exposed error messages.
1 comment
ADMIN
Milen | Product Manager @DX
Posted on: 01 Dec 2017 13:48
Thank you for your valuable input.