Creating Dashboard at Runtime
Our sample projects and report templates can help you learn the basics of working with our products.A dashboard can be built entirely in code — the page, a table element, its dimension columns and filters — with no designed template.
Create the dashboard and register data.
How it works. Building the element tree in code is equivalent to designing it visually, so the dashboard renders identically to a template-based one.
Create the dashboard and register data.
var report = StiReport.CreateNewDashboard();
var dashboard = report.Pages[0] as StiDashboard;
var data = new DataSet();
data.ReadXml(Path.Combine(appPath, "Data/Demo.xml"));
report.RegData(data);
report.Dictionary.Synchronize();var table = new StiTableElement {
Left = 0, Top = 0, Width = 700, Height = 500,
Border = { Side = StiBorderSides.All }, BackColor = Color.LightGray, Name = "Example" };
table.Columns.Add(new StiDimensionColumn { Expression = "Products.ProductName" });
table.Columns.Add(new StiDimensionColumn { Expression = "Products.UnitPrice" });
table.DataFilters.Add(new StiDataFilterRule {
Condition = StiDataFilterCondition.BeginningWith, Path = "Products.ProductID", Value = "1" });
dashboard.Components.Add(table);report.Pages[0] as StiDashboard— the dashboard surface to add elements to.StiTableElementwithStiDimensionColumn— a table and the fields it displays;StiDataFilterRulefilters its data.
How it works. Building the element tree in code is equivalent to designing it visually, so the dashboard renders identically to a template-based one.