Inherited reports

Hans

I know Inheritance does have some limitations.
Like, do not use parameters in the base report.

I am not happy with that and try to create a workaround.
Because we do have hundreds of reports. A lot of them are a look a like of another report..
In the base reports we like to do the general settings by using parameters (for example 'show_price').
In the inherited reports we change only some fields,groups, sorts.


I am thinking about a workaround:
1. I Load the report by code
2. Detach the report by cocde
3. Give the parameters the right value.

Questions:
Is it possible to Load a report and Detach the Base report by code?
If not. Do you have plans to remove the limitations of inherited reports?

Hans

With the code below it is possible to use a basereport with parameters and totals.
After loading the report by code, the basereport is resetted and all double parameters and totals are removed.
Then it works fine.

using (Designer frDesigner = new Designer())
                {
                    report1.BaseReport = "";
                    report1.Designer = frDesigner;
                    report1.Designer.SetModified(this, "EditReport");
                }
                string xmlFR = report1.SaveToString();
                string xmlHdr = xmlFR.Substring(1, xmlFR.IndexOf("\r\n") + 1);
                xmlFR = xmlFR.Substring(xmlFR.IndexOf("\r\n") + 2);
                XDocument xdoc = XDocument.Parse(xmlFR);
                //remove double Parameters and Totals
                xdoc.Root.Elements("Dictionary").Elements("Parameter")
                    .GroupBy(s => (string)s.Attribute("Name"))
                    .SelectMany(g => g.Skip(1)) // select all nodes from group except first one
                    .Remove();
                xdoc.Root.Elements("Dictionary").Elements("Total")
                    .GroupBy(s => (string)s.Attribute("Name"))
                    .SelectMany(g => g.Skip(1)) // select all nodes from group except first one
                    .Remove();
                string xmlResult = xmlHdr + xdoc.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting);
                xmlResult = xmlResult.Replace("\r\n", Environment.NewLine);
                report1.Clear();
                report1.LoadFromString(xmlResult);