Hello Telerik Team,

I would like to suggest a feature enhancement for the Web Report Designer that would allow dynamic configuration of design-time parameter values during initialization.

Currently, design-time values for report parameters are embedded within the report definition and can only be set manually using the Web Report Designer interface. While runtime parameter values work perfectly and can be passed dynamically through code, not being able to dynamically set design-time values causes significant limitations—especially during the report design process.

My Use Case:

In my application, I load data from a dynamic web service endpoint, and the service domain needs to be set at runtime. While this works fine during preview in my ASP.NET MVC project (where I pass the URL dynamically using report parameters), I run into issues when designing reports:

• During design time, the URL has to be manually entered into every Web Service Data Source just to fetch the model fields and avoid errors.

• If the domain name changes (e.g., due to staging/production environments), I must manually update the domain in every report and each Web Service Data Source, which is both time-consuming and inefficient.

• This becomes even more tedious in large projects with many reports and data sources.

So, my question is: Is it mandatory to pass design-time values (like the service URL) manually just for design-time purposes? If not, it would be incredibly helpful to have a way to supply these values dynamically during the Web Report Designer initialization, perhaps via a configuration option or external context.

Petar from the Telerik team mentioned that this would indeed be a valuable feature and encouraged me to submit this suggestion. You can view our discussion here: 🔗 Dynamic Web Service Domain Configuration in Telerik Report Designer Server

This capability would make designing reports much smoother and far more maintainable, especially for applications that rely on dynamic, environment-specific configurations.

Thank you for considering this request, and I appreciate your continued support and guidance.

Screenshots are also attached for quick reference, though they are already available in the forum link above.

Best regards,
Prabesh