Legacy report application problems with autogenerate fields in runtime - asp.net

I don't know if the follow code snippet intend to work in this way, because sometimes we "as developers" try automate creation of data display control where number of fields are uncontrolled and with similar data-binding, so before I review the application some guys left this :
Under ActiveReport_ReportStart() event :
for (Ind = 1; Ind <=CM.Length; Ind++) {
if (Ind == 1) {
Left = ((Line)rpt.Sections["PageHeader"].Controls["lnH8"]).Left + 0.05f;
} else if (Ind == 2) {
Left = ((Line)rpt.Sections["PageHeader"].Controls["lnH9"]).Left + 0.05f;
} else if (Ind == 3) {
Left = ((Line)rpt.Sections["PageHeader"].Controls["lnH10"]).Left + 0.05f;
}
TextBox TB = new TextBox();
TB.Size = ((Label)rpt.Sections["PageHeader"].Controls["tbColorway1"]).Size;
TB.Font = ((Label)rpt.Sections["PageHeader"].Controls["tbColorway1"]).Font;
TB.Width = ((Label)rpt.Sections["PageHeader"].Controls["tbColorway1"]).Width;
TB.Height = ((Label)rpt.Sections["PageHeader"].Controls["tbColorway1"]).Height;
TB.VerticalAlignment = VerticalTextAlignment.Top;
TB.Location = new System.Drawing.PointF(Left, ((Label)rpt.Sections["PageHeader"].Controls["tbColorway1"]).Top);
TB.DataField = "ColorText" + Ind + ColorwayNumber;
rpt.Sections["Detail"].Controls.Add(TB);
It doesn't have compilation error when is previewed, also others fields that are not auto-generated are displayed correctly (ReporHeader, ReportFooter), but IMHO I think is better to replace this mechanism by a subreport inside the detail section, of course these fields have to be displayed in Detail section of the report. Anyways I would like to see some recommendations because if is possible to auto-generated textbox or labels in runtime I will have to explain to boss why this code was not working, and if I have to use subreports instead, I need to know how to pass parameter (at least I need to work with two parameters for generate another sql query for it) and what "event" is proper to put script into it..
After I discovered that most important problem is to get report format changes by how many field/textbox were added to report detail in runtime restricted by a sqlquery return value, for example :
Returned SQLQuery value = 4
10 fields generated for detailed row 1
6 fields for row 2
4 fields for row 3
Detail fields are bound to a SQL Store Procedure*
Report will supossed to be printed/showed in this way :
//Report Init
Page 1 :
|field 1|field 2|field 3|field 4|
------------------------------------------------------
row1 | valA1 | valA2 | valA3 | valA4 |
------------------------------------------------------
row2 | valB1 | valB2 | valB3 | valB4 |
------------------------------------------------------
row3 | valC1 | valC2 | valC3 | valC4 |
------------------------------------------------------
Page 2 :
|field 1|field 2|field 3|field 4|
------------------------------------------------------
row1 | valA5 | valA6 | valA7 | valA8 |
------------------------------------------------------
row2 | valB5 | valB6 |
------------------------------------------------------
row3
------------------------------------------------------
Page 3 :
|field 1|field 2|field 3|field 4|
------------------------------------------------------
row1 | valA9 | valA10|
------------------------------------------------------
row2
------------------------------------------------------
row3
------------------------------------------------------
//End of Report
Any help will be appreciated
Thank you so much

It is perfectly fine to dynamically create fields on a report at runtime. The creation of those fields do indeed need to be done in the reportstart event or earlier (i.e. before calling ActiveReport.Run).
However, you could place the same logic to dynamically create those fields in a subreport and pass a parameter too, but in general subreports do impose additional overhead (and an additional query in most cases) so I wouldn't use a subreport unless there is a compelling benefit. However, there is a walkthrough on passing parameters to a subreport here.
The only thing that looks suspect in your code is the following line:
TB.Location = new System.Drawing.PointF(Left, ((Label)rpt.Sections["PageHeader"].Controls["tbColorway1"]).Top);
You are using the Top value from a control in the PageHeader, but TB is in the Detail section. I can understand reusing the Left value, but reusing the Top value wouldn't be consistent across different sections (Top is it's vertical position from the top of the section containing the control)
Now, it sounds like sometimes these fields do not appear on the report. Some things you can verify to troubleshoot the problem:
Determine if there is a binding problem or a visual/location problem. TO do this, just give the textbox a border or a background color or something so you can see it even if there is no text (due to failed data binding).
Start logging out the position of each textbox and the datafield value to a log file. When you notice the problem, go back to the log and see if you can identify what triggers the problem (maybe a specific index, location or datafield value?).
Finally, make sure that the page size (determined by the system's default printer) is not changing and maybe cutting off one of your dynamically added textboxes.

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you ran them at the same time (or quickly one after the other)
the effective caching policy is indeed 1 day (have you verified that is indeed the case?)
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// option 1
// --------
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I would to make the field descriptions and label texts in my pages multi-lingual. Originally they are in English and I could let the user translate them through Google Translate. In order to avoid translation errors I would like to implement a translation data model that contains
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FieldDisplayName_FR
FieldDisplayName_IT
etc.
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+----+--------+------------+------------+------------+-----+
| Id | Locale | FirstName | LastName | Age | ... |
+----+--------+------------+------------+------------+-----+
| 1 | EN | First name | Last name | Age | ... |
+----+--------+------------+------------+------------+-----+
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|-------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|-----|
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| timestamp | name | customDimensions | context| etc |
|-------------------------|---------|----------------------------------|--------|-----|
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Properties:
context: "ABC"
userMessage: "Some other"
}
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Any ideas?
EDIT:
Added a picture for clarifying the format of the data:
edited to working answer:
customEvents
| where name == "Spinner"
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you need an extra tostring and todynamic in here to get what you expect (and what i expected!)
the explanation i was given:
Dynamic field "promises" you the upper/outer level of key / value access (this is how you access customDimensions.Properties).
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I want to declare and initialize integer variable in Decision Table. I created a sample rule in .drl file. It's working fine but i want that rule in drool spreadsheet. Anybody know How to do it?
Sample Rule code.
rule "GoodBye1"
salience 5
when
a : Message(count == 45)
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System.out.println("-Raj--> "+temp);
a.setPriority(temp);
update(a);
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--------------------------
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---------------------------------------
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hey niles,
we can use the caption to some HTML tags and start building the extra headers
please refer this link for your problem
CLICK HERE
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