I am currently using the Power BI Report Builder for a paginated report which seems to be a light version of the SSRS.
Anyways, looks like my Charts are cropped for whatever reason. Is this known or somehow a bug/limitation to my installation?
reinstalling the application did the trick...
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Hello I have used this very useful Adding Barcode to Report Builder 3.0 until today with my Microsoft Report Builder - Version 12.0.6024.0. It works like a charm with no issues but now I'm in need of upgrading my reports into a newer version of Microsoft Report Builder - Version 15.0.19611.0. For some reason the barcodes does not show up in the newer version. Does anyone know how to make this work?
I am using Report Builder 3.0 in order to connect to SSRS report server http://mosaic.catex.com/reportserver.
Is there a way to use Power BI to connect to SSRS report server instead?
Thanks
Answering the question that was originally asked: there's no way to connect Power BI Desktop to SSRS Report Server. Power BI Report Server is another matter, but your question predates its release so that is very unlikely to be what you're asking about.
Power BI Desktop (which I presume you mean when you say Power BI) and Report Builder (pictured in your question) are different tools used to build different types of reports. There's no overlap between them and they're not interchangeable.
There's also no way to use an SSRS report as a data source in Power BI (as Alan mentions), though I wouldn't recommend doing this even if it were possible. In SSRS 2016, there is a way to pin SSRS report elements to a Power BI dashboard (as Snowlockk mentions), but I'm not sure that's what you meant by "dashboard" in your comment. The functionality is somewhat limited too (since you need to be running SSRS 2016, and you can only pin chart/gauge/map/picture elements).
When asking if something can be done, it's always helpful to say exactly what you're trying to accomplish just in case it can't be done the way you're asking about, but it can be done another way.
I want to consume a SSRS report within a windows service (wrote in C#). The service will then export the report as a PDF and write it to disk.
Is this even possible? I am new to SSRS.
Interesting question Mick. We have done code where we can call the SSRS report and export it as PDF but that code is in DLL. Now windows service is no different I would advise you to go through the following code http://sandeep-aparajit.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/how-to-execute-and-save-ssrs-report.html and try the same. It should work as far as i can see the only problem you might come across might be Code access security but it is worth a try. Thanks for the question you have given me an idea.
The URL for Reporting services will depend on what version of SSRS you are using but as you can see you can easily spot and change it http:///reportserver/reportservice2005.asmx instead of 2005 you might have to change to 2008 or something.
We currently use Report Builder with ColdFusion. This Report Builder hasn't seen any Adobe development in around 5 years and doesn't look like it will see any soon.
I need a scalable reporting solution that will work in the cloud without huge licencing implications. I've looked at Crystal (which I don't understand the pricing or what I need) and JasperReports with iReport, and I guess that Microsoft SQL Reporting is an option also.
I'd like to get some recommendations on what people are using and how you have integrated that into ColdFusion. I appreciate that it may not be as seamless as Report Builder.
We are using Windows 2008 R2 with SQL Server 2008 in a Cloud infrastructure.
What ever solution we come up with, the resulting output of the reports need to be PDF.
I've used Crystal, SQL Report Builder and ColdFusion Report Builder.
Crystal and SQL Report Builder are much better than ColdFusion Report Builder. Like you said CF is not going anywhere and is really buggy to me.
Crystal is great but it becomes really expensive when you want to publish reports to the web. The standard product requires a report viewer that is installed locally. If you need to publish to the web it is much more expensive.
SQL Report Builder is a really good option. Version 3.0 is really nice and makes it very easy to write advanced SQL queries or call SPs and publish to the web.
I am a pretty big fan of SQL Report Builder.
Hope this helps.
I recently had the task of adding a barcode onto a SSRS report without being able to add anything to the report server other than the report itself.
The solution I came up with was to render the barcode as a dynamic image on our webserver and reference the image from the report. It works beautifully. I just wanted to post a possible solution for others in the same boat.
I like that - we installed a barcode font which worked for us.