Report Inheritance

There are two ways of report inheritance:

In both ways you should create a basic report in the designer that includes all necessary elements. You may add the following components to the basic reports:

After the report has been created you may either save the report as a special basic class (for this you should use the Save as command) or save the report as a regular report and then use it as a master report.

In the first case, you will get the C# or VB.NET class, and will be able to create new reports. For example:

Reports.Report master = new Reports.Report();
master.RegData(dataSet);
master.Design();

In order to use the basic report when creating a new report in the designer, you need to add the following string of a code:

StiReport.ReportType = typeof(Reports.Report);

Then all new reports will be automatically inherited from the basic class.

In the second way you need to use the following code:

StiReport masterReport = new StiReport();

masterReport.Load("d:\\master-detail.mrt");

StiReport report = new StiReport();

report.RegData(dataSet);

report.MasterReport = masterReport.SaveToString();

report.Design();