Hi everyone :

Sorry if the topic is not in the right subforum, but this is my first post.

The question is simple, but it looks like no one want to explain CLEAR the solution to my problem, so I can understand it

I try to show in my report something as Simple as this Object Structure:

1. Object has List of Articles, and some information
   
2. Article has 2 List (Call them Element and Stuff) and some information
   
3. Element and Stuff just have some information
   

Code is like this:

Object code example
---------------------------------------------------------

Public Class RootObject{
  Public List<Article> Articles
  Public String Name
  Public String OtherInformation
}

Public Class Article{
  Public List<Element> Elements
  Public List<Stuff> MoreStuff
  Public String Name
  Public String OtherInformation
}

Public Class Element{
  Public String Name
  Public String OtherInformation
}

Public Class Stuff{
  Public String Name
  Public String OtherInformation
}

---------------------------------------------------------

After a deep search on the web, I just found that it would be easy if I were using DataSets, but that's not a problem .

So I have 2 simple questions:

1. There is any way to use Objects instead of DataSets??  (I'm using Castle ActiveRecord, but if you don't know what´s that let it be NHibernate.)
   
   
2. How many subreports do I have to use, and how the hell do i configure them to show a Report like this??? :

Required Report Example
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
RootObject: RootObjectName

Articles
Article 1 : Information

Elements
Element1 : Information
..............
ElementN : Information

Stuff
Stuff1 : Information
.........
StuffN : Information

 ..........
Article N : Information

..................

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


Is it really SO hard to do this on Crystal Reports?????? I spent days searching for a solution to this and i found NOTHING . All the problem is on trying to show List of List in a Report.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Cerberus

Yeah, if I cannot use Objects, just try to imagine I'me using a Dataset with 4 DataTables:

ObjectRoot <- Article <¬- Element
                                     | - Stuff

But, Which is the deeper Subreport for nested information that I can use?


Edited by Cerberus - 19 Jan 2009 at 5:41am

And what about RootObject Information?