[RESOLVED] Report and textbox.

First post so be gentle please. I will probably have a pile more. But a question or two for you lot.

I have a windows application in vb.net that is basically an addressbook. To navigate the contents I have a treeview which, when clicked on the nodes, populates a few textboxes (firstname, surname, zip etc). I want to be able to have a report print depending on which node (record) is chosen. So...questions...

Can I populate a report from a Treeview control? (I'm using reportviewer) Reportviewer works well but has ALL data displayed. How can I filter data from a textbox (say txtFirstName) on my form? Hardcoding a firstname filter gives the correct record but I want it dynamic.

If I can't populate from treeview, can I populate my report depending on what is in the textboxes on the form?

Thanks for any pointers and I look forward to being part of this community.

Welcome On The Forums :wave:
You are able to get the report using the tree view, when you are clicking on the tree view then just got the primary key to the related record.
The using the SQL query you are able to get the different report for the different nodes.
But there is a necessary primary key is needed.
For getting the more detail about the CR in the VB.NET just click on the link at my signature CR in VB.Net

Thanks for the welcome. I may have been misleading. I cannot populate the report from treeview. I have to make a new dataset and populate it from that. My primary key is 'surname'. Here is the code.

Code:

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Public Class Form1
    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

    Private Const APP_TITLE = "ContactsTreeView"

    ' The <New> node.
    Private m_NewNode As TreeNode

    ' The CurrencyManager synchronizes the controls
    ' with the Contacts DataTable.
    Private WithEvents m_CurrencyManager As CurrencyManager

    ' Fill the DataSet.
    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        ' Load the cboState ComboBox.
        Dim states() As String = { _
            "AK", "AL", "AR", "AZ", "CA", "CO", "CT", "DC", "DE", "FL", _
            "GA", "HI", "IA", "ID", "IL", "IN", "KS", "KT", "LA", "MA", _
            "MD", "ME", "MI", "MN", "MO", "MS", "MT", "NC", "ND", "NE", _
            "NH", "NJ", "NM", "NV", "NY", "OH", "OK", "OR", "PE", "RI", _
            "SC", "SD", "TN", "TX", "UT", "VA", "VT", "WA", "WI", "WV", _
            "WY" _
        }
        cboState.Items.Clear()
        cboState.Items.AddRange(states)

        ' Hide the txtSnapshotFile control.
        ' If we do this at design time,
        ' it doesn't get updated by the DataSet.
        txtSnapshotFile.Visible = False

        ' Make the name list as large as possible.
        ArrangeControls()

        ' Fill the DataSet.
        daContacts.Fill(dsContacts)

        ' Load the TreeView.
        LoadTreeView()

        ' Save a reference to the CurrencyManager.
        m_CurrencyManager = Me.BindingContext(dsContacts, "Contacts")
    End Sub

    ' Load the TreeView control with a list of names.
    Private Sub LoadTreeView()
        Dim letter_nodes(25) As TreeNode
        Dim letter As Integer
        Dim row_num As Integer
        Dim data_row As DataRow
        Dim record_node As TreeNode
        Dim first_node As TreeNode
        Dim combined_name As String

        ' Make the letter nodes.
        trvContacts.Nodes.Clear()
        For letter = 0 To 25
            letter_nodes(letter) = trvContacts.Nodes.Add(Chr(letter + Asc("A"c)))
        Next letter

        ' Add a TreeNode column to the table.
        dsContacts.Tables("Contacts").Columns.Add("TreeNode", GetType(TreeNode))

        ' Add each name entry.
        For row_num = 0 To dsContacts.Tables("Contacts").Rows.Count - 1
            data_row = dsContacts.Tables("Contacts").Rows(row_num)
            combined_name = data_row.Item("LastName") & ", " & data_row.Item("FirstName")
            letter = Asc(combined_name.Substring(0, 1).ToUpper) - Asc("A"c)
            record_node = letter_nodes(letter).Nodes.Add(combined_name)
            record_node.Tag = data_row
            data_row.Item("TreeNode") = record_node
            If row_num = 0 Then first_node = record_node
        Next row_num

        ' Make a <New> node.
        m_NewNode = trvContacts.Nodes.Add("<New>")

        ' Select the first node.
        trvContacts.SelectedNode = first_node

        ' Accept the changes (setting the TreeNode field)
        ' so we don't think there are changes yet.
        dsContacts.AcceptChanges()
    End Sub

    ' Make the TreeView as large as possible.
    Private Sub Form1_Resize(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Resize
        ArrangeControls()
    End Sub
    Private Sub ArrangeControls()
        trvContacts.SetBounds(0, 0, trvContacts.Size.Width, ClientSize.Height)
    End Sub

    Private Sub mnuFileExit_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles mnuFileExit.Click
        Me.Close()
    End Sub

    Private Sub trvContacts_AfterSelect(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.TreeViewEventArgs) Handles trvContacts.AfterSelect
        Dim data_row As DataRow
        Dim data_table As DataTable
        Dim i As Integer

        ' Do nothing if we haven't loaded the data yet.
        If m_CurrencyManager Is Nothing Then Exit Sub

        ' Do nothing if this node has no Tag
        ' value or Tag isn't a DataRow object.
        If e.Node.Tag Is Nothing Then Exit Sub

        ' Display the corresponding record.
        data_table = dsContacts.Tables(0)
        data_row = e.Node.Tag
        For i = 0 To m_CurrencyManager.Count - 1
            If data_row Is m_CurrencyManager.List(i).Row Then
                m_CurrencyManager.Position = i
                Exit For
            End If
        Next i
    End Sub
End Class

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This was a tutorial I followed. I want to add a report but cannot see where to take the string from to populate the report.

Thanks for any help.

OK here's how I sorted it. Made another table in the database called report. Made the report table update with the textboxes text from the form when the treeview is clicked. I created a dataset that populated my report from the table 'report'. That may be a long way round but it works.