Report Design Templates

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4051225

27-09-2019
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Question

We are using DevExpress XtraReports 2009v3.3 and although I can achieve what I want through various formatting objects in code, there must be a (better/less painless/maintainable/visual) way of achieving what I require...

I need to produce a report, designed to end-user 'look & feel'. We have many companies which use our software and they all require different design schema's/templates for their reports. For example - a single report, depending on who logs on (we know what company they belong to) apply the template the report should use.

As an example, some of the requirements (per end-user/company) include:

their own logo (positioned in the correct place), Margins being of specific size their own fonts (or font choice) alternating colours schemes Specific rows / columns being particular colours (both permanently and based on value) Formatting of values, for example a european user would get euro, a uk user gets pounds on certain columns/cells/rows.

I know there is an End-User Report Designer, however this isn't what we require - I must create the schema/template design for a report then apply it at runtime.

Also using save/load layout for multiple repx files isn't the best solution as a change to the report would cause a lot of extra work as you would have to update each repx template file.

Solution

It is possible to create different reports and save it to the repx format via XtraReport.SaveLayout method and use these repx files as template.