We learned how to add custom fields to BO but we think that it is more efficient to do this at runtime.



We are planning to generate our reports and there are more than 100 reports to be generated. If we create a new custom BBS and custom BO for each report (this is the case in Strataflix) then this will not be a dynamic process and it will take lots of time to do it, we can say that it is not efficient as a summary.



Is it possible to add custome fields to BO at Runtime so that we can dynamically modify a custom BO at runtime depending on the nature of the report?



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I'm sorry, but I'm still missing some of the detail. I can be a bit slow at times .

Could you give a specific example? I.e. "we have two tables, Customer and Employee, with fields x, y, and z. We want to provide parameter Q and have it spit out a BO containing a, b, and c." 

In short, I don't think we have the capability to do exactly what you are looking for currently in the framework, but that is because, to my knowledge, we haven't run accross a definate need for it. Most requirements that hit around this are covered by (manually programmed) custom properties, pseudo BOs, views, or (if you are more worried with development speed than best practices) the ability to directly reference custom columns in a returned datatable (i.e. MyBO.CurrentRow["myColumn"]).

As far as automating the reporting process further, Edhy and Trent have been having a good discussion around possibilities there, and planned future development for StrataFrame in this thread. You may browse through it real quick to see if any of the ideas or points there are hitting home with what you are trying to do.