Best UI to Create Extensible Report in ASP.NET?
I have a SQL Server table full of progress in the tutorial. I want to make a report. The report should be a list of users, with each line showing their name, completion status, and percentages. They should be able to expand each string to show substrings, which are detailed in the section by section. What's the best UI to use in ASP.NET for pairing with my SQL data to display this in an easy to read form?
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Dave Ward has a really interesting post on creating simple ASP.net and jQuery data relay methods to display data in a table format.In essence, you will be using page methods to send data to the client and format it into a simple table using a micro template.
Alternatively, you can format your data as an html table using an ASP.Net data relay and use the jQuery plugin to add the client-side paging functionality. You can be careful with this approach as with a large amount of data your html can get quite large and the search call can become important to ensure a fast user experience.
This takes care of your table on the client. To add functionality to expand the row to show details, you can wrap this information in a div tag and attach a click event to show or hide the content.
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Sounds like a combination of ASP.NET GridView / ListView to create a grouping grid. Check out this blog post for more information: http://mattberseth.com/blog/2008/01/building_a_grouping_grid_with.html
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