Is it possible to control or inject sorting behaviors (programmatically) so that I can provide the user with preconfiguration functionality?

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Hello everybody,

I am planning to build a utility report configuration layer upon an existing system (which works perfectly so far). It is a sorting functionality to an existing report functionality which is built as part of that of existing system. You may ask why this, when there is similar functionality which is part of the RDLC engine, my answer is simple I want this as part of the existing system design.

Is it possible to control or inject sorting behaviors (programmatically) into the rdlc report on runtime so that I can provide the user with preconfiguration functionality?

Posted 23-Jul-13 2:14am

Yonathan1111

Updated 27-Feb-14 10:20am

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lukeer 23-Jul-13 8:52am

Does the existing system provide an interface for that?
Or do you at least have access to its source?

Yonathan1111 29-Jul-13 8:43am

Not yet, but that is what I want to have in future.

lukeer 29-Jul-13 8:58am

I guess there's no sorting API to the system you're talking about? Because then you would've stated your case another way. Wouldn't you?

Yonathan1111 29-Jul-13 9:07am

Off-course there is no such API to the system, hence, it is the API I want to build for myself as part of my system.

Yonathan1111 29-Jul-13 9:07am

Off-course there is no such API to the system, hence, it is the API I want to build for myself as part of my system.

Yonathan1111 29-Jul-13 9:07am

Off-course there is no such API to the system, hence, it is the API I want to build for myself as part of my system.

ZurdoDev 27-Feb-14 16:32pm

It sounds like you are asking if your proprietary code supports sorting. If that is correct, how would we know?

Yonathan1111 27-Feb-14 23:36pm

As per my understanding, you are correct to the extent of having my own a piece of sorting code, however, the code eventually will end up as part of my rdlc report sorting configuration. If my question was not clear enough, let me put it in this way, can I modify the rdlc report at runtime? I have seen, a sample project which dynamically, generates the rdlc report, the only difference is that I have already the report in hand, I don't want to fully generate the report at runtime again.
Thanks

ZurdoDev 28-Feb-14 7:12am

I haven't used SSRS rdls all that much but one option would be to have a parameter on your reports stored procedure and you could pass in the sort expression.

Yonathan1111 28-Feb-14 13:32pm

OK, it seems appropriate, I will consider it in my design. Hope, I will post my implementation when the time comes.

It was a great help, thanks.

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2014-02-28T07:38:00

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As per my comments, one option would be to add a parameter to the stored procedures for your reports and pass in the sort expression.

Posted 28-Feb-14 7:38am

ZurdoDev