Why Dialogbox "Select data source"

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• AlexTZ

  December 2008 edited 5:17PM

  Hello,
  
  The documentation is here:
  http://www.fast-report.com/en/forum/?p=/discussion/4901
  
  The "Select Data Source" dialog allows you to select a data source defined in your project. It seems you don't have it.
  Here is a quick how-to:
  
  - create a new Windows Forms application;
  - add a dataset into it ("Data|Add New Data Source..." menu item);
  - switch to the Form designer;
  - add the "DataSet" component on a form and connect it to the typed dataset
  that you have created;
  - put the "Report" component on a form;
  - right-click it (or click on a smart tag button) and select the
  "Design Report..." item;
  - choose the data source to use in a report;
  - create your report;
  - close the report designer;
  - add a "Button" control on your form;
  - double-click it and write the following code in the button_Click event
  handler:
  
  report1.Show();
  
  - save the project and run it.
  
  
• cdk2008

  December 2008 edited 5:17PM

  AlexTZ wrote: »

  Hello,
  
  The documentation is here:
  http://www.fast-report.com/en/forum/?p=/discussion/4901
  
  The "Select Data Source" dialog allows you to select a data source defined in your project. It seems you don't have it.
  Here is a quick how-to:
  
  - create a new Windows Forms application;
  - add a dataset into it ("Data|Add New Data Source..." menu item);
  - switch to the Form designer;
  - add the "DataSet" component on a form and connect it to the typed dataset
  that you have created;
  - put the "Report" component on a form;
  - right-click it (or click on a smart tag button) and select the
  "Design Report..." item;
  - choose the data source to use in a report;
  - create your report;
  - close the report designer;
  - add a "Button" control on your form;
  - double-click it and write the following code in the button_Click event
  handler:
  
  report1.Show();
  
  - save the project and run it.

  
  
  Hi Alex,
  
  it sounds simple but it doesn't work!
  
  In Report Designer the preview shows the data from the dataset correctly. But if the designer is closed and the report
  should be shown by the code "this.report1.Show();" only the band "headline" contains the name of the columns.
  Band "data" is empty.
  
  What goes wrong in my code?
  
  With best regards
  
  Claus
• AlexTZ

  December 2008 edited 5:17PM

  Hello Claus,
  
  I forgot to mention that you have to fill the dataset before running a report. This must be done before the "report.Show()" call. In design-time, FR does this automatically, but in run-time you must take care about it.