I want to display in my report the users of our System, who printed the reports. SSRS does have Built-in Fields but it only shows the computer name and the user, not the one who is logged in to our system. I have the idea of parameters but I don't have the right program on how to do it.
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I am looking for utilities/code that has been developed to make the SSRS Report Portal 2016 user friendly/simpler for users that have zero technical background — interested in anyone who has developed an ordinary-language interface that can be configured for domain specific (schools, in this case) purposes.
The users need to be able to access the Portal, select a Template from a Library, and configure it to meet their own own needs — without having to understand any of the technical issues, or write any code. Eg. the Templates will contain auto-populated dropdown menus that allow the user to select the source and type of information that can be placed into a specific section of the report they are building.
Anyone who uses excel and pivot tables, with a little training, could easily make simple reports with report builder. The interface will let you drag and drop data if you have a tabular or multidimensional model. It works very similar to excel. Mobile report publisher is even easier if the data provided to them is well designed for that intention.
There's a legacy VB6 application at my company that allows reports to be emailed to clients. Basically, a requisition number is entered, and after QC to make sure it's valid, the appropriate Crystal Reports template is called, exported to PDF, and emailed to the correct contact. I've been asked to research the feasibility of converting this from the current manual task (enter the requisition number and click the "Email Report" button) to a SQL Agent job, most likely an SSIS package. Duplicating the SQL that currently validates the requisitions is no problem, but I don't know how to get SSIS to call the Crystal Reports template (or if it's even possible), or how to then export it to PDF to be emailed.
The Crystal Reports templates are highly customized and have their own SQL queries that use the requisition number as the parameter. There are several templates for each client, so there are many templates existing (literally hundreds), and recreating all that customization isn't feasible. That's why I need to use the existing Crystal Reports instead of another option. We are using SQL Server 2008 R2 and Crystal reports 10. I have no ability to change this.
Is it possible to invoke a Crystal Reports template from SSIS and then export it to PDF, and if so, how? Any advice or links to resources will be very welcome!
I would like to try out SSRS in a pretty simple way. I want to have our offshore development team create reports (in the form of RDL files?) with both tabular and graphical elements (simple pie charts, graphs, etc.) based on queries that they write against our database. Once they have written and "deployed" the report, I want to be able to run the report by selecting it from a dropdown in a pre-existing WinForms UI that our team already uses (of course the dropdown and the "Run Report" button will be new features of this UI). I want running of the report to just open a browser with a URL to a web-based SSRS UI. Is this possible to do without writing a custom UI for reporting? Basically, I am wondering what (if any) UI options come pre-packaged with SSRS. Is there something that comes with it that is HTML-based and will allow users to specify the input parameters for a report?
There is a HTML-based website that comes with SSRS that allows you to select reports at http://ServerName/Reports. It will allow you to select a report, enter the parameters then run the reports and then select output options - print, Excel, PDF, etc.
There is also the Report Viewer control for WinForms.
I have some reports in my reportserver...
I was wondering how can i let to Users custom design the reports
You can create the DataSource objects on the reporting server and then give the users rights to the report designer. That way they can access the raw data to create their own reports off of without giving them special access to the data. They can build reports specific to them in a safe environment.
If you don't want to get that in-depth with your users, create the reports for them but put a few key parameters in the reports. That way the users can filter or change the reports somewhat without doing any designing work themselves. We use this to allow our users to report off of different years based upon the parameter they enter. They can also change the report scope (one year, multi-year, one month, etc.) using these parameters.
I need to load SQL Server reports over the web and make it more interactive for a set of users by:
Allowing them to put up their annotations/comments on different visualizations being shown.
Track these annotations for each screen.
Is it possible with SSRS or any other visualization mechanism? Please let me know of any means to do it.
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It sound like what you asking for is not SSRS as such: it's an interactive web page. by this I mean SSRS is output only, no data input.
So you want users to share comments on the
latest report execution? SSRS will render with the latest data by default so what 2 users see on different screens a minute apart will be different. How do you matchreport data and comments?
a specific execution? Look at report snapshots.
the data in any report execution? See my idea below.
My solution for "comments on data"... which assumes annotations are persisted in the database with the report data...
The Report Viewer control in remote mode with an ASP.NET wrapper to deal with user input (annotations) might do the trick. The report would display annotations. In SSRS the screen = the report so this captures one requirement.