DevExpress SubReport

Hi Phil,

Why not using a process flow that generates the set of reports (group X) and store them in the DB. As a Final step in the process flow have a report that selects the specific requested reports of group X from the table to merge them into 1 in the given order as you have them in the DB or configured sort order.

Hope this covers it.

https://community.devexpress.com/blogs/reporting/archive/2020/04/22/reporting-merge-pdf-documents-into-your-report-v20-1.aspx

Hi Phil,

There's an alternative way of achieving the use of Subreports for Windows GUI 2-tier (without Indicium). You can insert the subreport as a separate Report in your Software Factory project. This will ensure that the GUI caches the Report and the Subreport in the same folder, making it available for the Report to use.

The suggestion above is also something you can look into. Hope it helps 😄

Offering native support for subreports is something we have to look into, so I'll open the idea.

Sorry for the late reply, I was on holiday. But thank you for your answer I’ll look in to it once I’ve worked my way through a gazillion e-mails 😅

Hi Mark,

What is the current status for native support for subreports in the report designer?

I need to insert a dynamic list of into a detail band. Is there a workaround for that? 

Hi Rick,

I'm currently not aware of any plans regarding this idea. Feel free to add this idea to the 10X ideas topic.

For your question regarding the dynamic list of into a detail band; it's better to create a question for that so other Community members can see and answer you question as well. I do not have much experience with DevExpress.

We’ve discussed this Idea internally and plan to design a solution soon. Most likely delivery with Release 2025.2.

We completed the work for DevExpress sub reports. It will be available in the 2025.2 release of the platform!

A small update on this topic. The way we implemented this that you just create your report like you normally do in the report designer.

In the DevExpress Report Designer you can add a “Sub-Report” with the button in the toolbar.

You should save the files and the main report should be added to the Software Factory, just like you are already used to do.

For DevExpress reports, an additional detail in the SF will be shown called “Subreports”. If you have any, you can add the files here. You can add multiple sub reports if desired. So, those subreports, will be linked to the “main” report.
Indicium will figure this out, based on the filenames in the main report.

If you don’t upload sub reports, but you are using them in the main report - you will get an error during execution.

(This error message is not yet clear, I will validate if we can provide a nice error message).

If there are any questions, or if you are willing to test this feature using a 2025.1.13 release of the platform, you can reach out to us. It does require special versions of the Software Factory and IAM.