so I am looking for an approach to attach an SSRS report (in pdf format) to an email once a batch job gets completed. I want the report to get attached to the email without downloading the pdf report. someone suggested to look up report reference but couldn't find anything
I believe the PDF generated by SSRS is temporarily stored on the built-in Blob Storage of D365. This Blob storage is not directly accessible, so sharing a link to a customer via e-mail is not the recommended solution. I believe the solution directions are either to download the PDF to be able to attach it to the e-mail, or copy the PDF from the built-in Blob storage towards another Blob Storage (or SharePoint 365) and share the link in the e-mail.
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I want to make a form for office use. Office computers don't take scripts due to security restrictions. The HTML form will be used by multiple users to save data to a single excel file.
An alternative... one I haven't needed to do in about 15 years, but maybe this will work for you...
Make a form in an Access DB. You're all on the same network with a shared drive. Access actually has protections for this exact sort of scenario. You won't have to worry about overriding each others' data, and you can use the nice form designer.
Try using Google Forms, it will collect/store data into a google-sheets that you can easily export/save-as MS Excel file.
This Google tutorial will guide you step-by-step to create the form.
We have an SSRS 2012 report we have used URL access in order to automatically save to CSV upon running. This works fine, However, now I am told they want to force the report to save to a specific folder location for security reasons (they don't want it being saved to desktop) instead of allowing the user to save wherever. Is there a way to at the very least force a default location using URL access? Assuming this cannot be accomplished purely through the URL any suggestions for an alternative method?
You can find all of the applicable URL parameter commands here in the MS documentation.
That being said, there is no reference to the save location for the export render command that you are using to generate the CSV files. This makes sense because when a website serves a file to download to a browser, the location that the file is saved is actually a browser setting (IE instructions to change location)
I see two possible options:
Utilize a GPO to target the specific users and modify their registries to set the default download location (note that this affects everything they download). An example of this tutorial can be found here.
Use a Windows File Share subscription. If you view the report properties and click 'Subscribe', you can setup a file share delivery on a scheduled interval and export as a csv. Note that this is a schedule delivery though and obviously won't work if you users need to ad-hoc run the report on their timing.
Can anyone suggest me or point me in the right direction if there is a way to generate a fillable pdf form using SQL Reporting services? Are there any third party plugins on the report server that can provide the fillable form rendering options or if there is a way we could convert the pdf format of the report to fillable form by using some API. Can you please point me in the right direction.
Thanks,
Ajay
I've never heard of such a tool, and a search didn't return any different answer.
One option you have is:
Create an editable PDF file with the same layout of your SSRS report
Create a WCF service, controller method, or anything your app is with
logic to get the same info
Create a method to fill the editable form using iTextSharp with
your data
Send the PDF file to the user.
Have you ever considered this?
For number one you can use Acrobat Pro, CutePDF or any other tool you
feel confortable with.
I am aware that within Access you can send a report as an e-mail attachment with
DoCmd.SendObject
However, all the text I have read says you cannot add attachments (other than the report you are adding). So there is another set of web articles which go on to describe how to use vba to send an outlook e-mail message.
The report is a letter, and the other attachments I need to add are pdf's with maps in them, selecting which pdf depends on some other criteria.
I am thinking about enhancing the report to have the other attachments in the report, but I think that could be more trouble, so my ideal would be to avoid that if I can. The question is can I?
You could save the report as a PDF using this code:
Save Report as PDF File
Then use the Outlook VBA code you have to send the report along with the other files you need to send.
If you need specific help writing the code, please update your question with more details such as file location, Office version, what code you were planning to use, etc.
I ran into an interesting problem at work today. I got a request to provide a link to a certain PDF file from my company's homepage. Now, this PDF is to contain some testimonials etc. and is to be followed by a feedback page which has HTML like controls - radio buttons, textboxes and a submit button - We are still talking about the PDF here :)
Further, the PDF must open in the browser and if a user hits 'submit', the form data must be sent to a server script.
I must admit, I am a little stumped. I mean, is it even possible to put HTML controls in a PDF and, is it possible to submit a form from a PDF?
Any other thoughts on this problem?
Yes you can create forms in PDF. Following might be useful to you.
Adobe Acrobat Professional gives you
the ability to turn your previously
designed, standard PDF file into an
interactive form that clients can
download, easily fill out, print or
effortlessly return to you by email.
All they need is the free Adobe
Acrobat Reade
http://www.thedesigncubicle.com/2008/12/how-to-create-interactive-pdf-forms-to-impress-your-clients/
All PDF forms can be distributed via
email but can also be distributed to
web sites using FormArtist itself.
Data can be submitted straight from
forms back to your web server. It can
then be retrieved automatically and
stored in a database on your PC for
export or analysis.
http://www.quask.com/survey/applications_pdfforms.asp
You can't put HTML controls in a PDF, but you can add form fields to a PDF which support buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, text fields, etc. Form fields support the use of JavaScript, so it's possible to create some fairly interactive PDF forms.
You can create a PDF form with a submit button that when clicked will submit form data to a server. This requires the use of a file format called FDF. These PDF forms can be created by any number of different PDF development libraries or off the shelf products including Adobe Acrobat, Nitro PDF Professional, PDF Converter Professional and more.
Here are some articles that will help orientate you on PDF forms and FDF:
How to populate a PDF file's form with data from a web server
Web Hosting PDFs
Linking Up with FDF
Developing with PDF Forms
Where Should I use Acrobat JavaScript?
There are quite a number of different products from a variety of different companies. The Planet PDF Forum is a very useful resource too.
PDF forms can be submitted to a server. When the form data is submitted to the server, you'll need the services of the Adobe FDF (Form Data File) toolkit to parse the FDF file received at the server side. In order to create PDF Forms that submit FDF data to the server, one would require Adobe Acrobat or other similar software (for instance Nitro PDF Professional and PDF Converter Professional 6, thanks to Rowan for the links).
You also have the option of submitting a XFDF file to the server, that can be processed by any XML parser. Unless I'm mistaken, this requires you to have a license of Adobe Lifecyle Designer (or equivalent software) to create an XFDF file.