I have been forcing my webservice data source into a workable solution for making GraphQL requests. Right now in order for us to use GraphQL, we have to build out the request manually with a string such as the following:

{"query: "query GetSomeResult($input: Int!) {result {id name}}",
"variables": "{"input": @parameter}"
}

While this is a normal way to hand craft a GraphQL request, the issue I have is that it shouldn't need to be that hard. Also I get no intellisense or suggestion in regards to the data returning. This means that when I try to bind data to a text box, I have to visually validate that the [=Fields....] is actually correct by looking at the GraphQL query and at the code base. I would love to see the ability to to just say have a set of standard api technologies we could implement from such as GraphQL queries, GRPc queries, or any other contract style request. I would expect that the data source logic would be smart enough to parse the query (at least for GQL) and be able to provide reccomendations.

Also a major issue we have had is in being able to pass that data source to subReports, or dealing with any nested objects such as a user.address.addressLine1 would not be able to be found if address is a nested values like the following

user: {
  address: {
    addressLine1
  }
}

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

Hi Team,

I would like to request an HTML5 ASP.NET Core Report Viewer similar to the MVC version with wrappers.  It would be great to be able to utilize Razor Syntax for developing instead of pure jQuery.

Thank you!

Images taken with a mobile device are sometimes displayed in PictureBox  rotated by 90, 180 or 270 degrees. The reason is that whenever a photo is taken, the device saves its current accelerometer orientation into a corresponding Exif tag with the image metadata, so this info is then read and taken into account by our Report Designer.

In the standalone designer, it would be helpful if you could drag and drop the column headers to reorder.  At present you have to add a new column and delete the old one, remembering to copy all properties.

Sometimes I need to be able to allow the users to choose not only the date but the time as well when displaying DateTime report parameters in my reports. There is no out-of-the-box functionality to achieve this and I am forced to implement custom parameter editors -  Creating and Using Custom Parameter Editors in HTML5 ReportViewer - Telerik Reporting.

I should be able to set whether a DatePicker or DateTimePicker widget should be used for DateTime parameters from the report viewer's initialization options, such as how I can change the editor for single/multi-value parameters in the HTML5 report viewers - HTML5 Report Viewer Options Overview - Telerik Reporting.

Hello,

I see from support threads that Telerik really resists any changes to their concept of CSV rendering.  And I also understand the reasoning in not changing any default behavior due to its potentially unwanted effect on established customers.

That said, I wonder if the ability to exclude hidden objects (TextBoxes for example) has been proposed and is in the list of potential enhancements.  I wouldn't mind if it required a configuration setting like NoHiddenObjects = True where the default is False.

Has that been considered?

At the moment it's only possible to have your reports in old-fashioned projects.

It should be possible to add/design reports to SDK-style projects. That should work no matter what target framework is (.NET Core, .NET Standard or .NET Framework).

Add the ability to specify rounded corners for the border of TextBoxes, Pictures, Tables and all other similar controls.

Currently, when you set SplitWorksheetOnPageBreak to True, the Excel Sheet name is formed from the DocumentName or ReportName and the number of the page.

It would be very helpful if the report authors can manipulate these names with Expressions.

I understand that the ReportViewer has a very different paradigm from, say, the RadGridView.  However, I believe they should and could be much more similar.  With some fairly minor tweaks ReportViewer could be made to be a proper member of the C#/XAML/MVVM environment.  Particularly what is needed is a binding to the data source, just like RadGridView's "ItemsSource".

I've begun a discussion in the forum about this topic at https://www.telerik.com/forums/reporting-and-mvvm.  With Momchil's help I was able to create a workable solution for my scenario, but it required code that, in my opinion, I shouldn't have to write.

I'd be more that willing to chat about this further and provide more thoughts and details, but since we've made it all the way to 2024 without this being raised, I tend to assume the needs I've expressed may not be as universal as I'd assumed they would be.

Thanks!

I have projects on .NET Core and I want to use the System.Text.Json serializer that is the new default, but reporting relies on Newtonsoft.Json.

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There are two approaches that can be taken right now to solve this:

OPTION 1: define separate endpoints (services, projects) for the different tasks - they can still use the same database layer through a shared project, depending on the architecture you have. This would let you have separated services with the appropriate serializers without custom attributes and code (see below). For example, create a separate project for the reporting REST services.

OPTION 2: add some custom decoration on the endpoints so you can choose which serializer is used on each, you can find some examples here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59650907/how-to-configure-two-json-serializers-and-select-the-correct-one-based-on-the-ro - the point being to register a serializer depending on the endpoint based on your own code rather than let the framework put one in for all endpoints.

NOTE: This would be a breaking change.

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If there are parameters which are not mandatory, the reports automatically when loaded. In actual scenarios, there may be a lot of data being processed as the parameters may be empty. Developer should have an option on report level, say, AutoRun as true or false. The developer could decide if report needs to auto run.

Thanks,
Jai

please please put OR operator in Report designer data-source query.

For years users request and ask same question and still (in 2021) Report designer doesn not support OR query.

You can manually enter OR operator in sql-query, but then you cannot use the designer. :(((

Currently, there is design-time support for the WinFoms Report Viewer in the VS Designer only when the project targets .NET Framework.  I need this functionality to be supported in .NET WinForms projects as well.