I know the basic difference between RDLC and RDL, both almost the same uses XML schemas just different designer platform (SQL and Visual Studio). I wondering to know why both have a different graphic, like chart interface, chart style and anything else. I would like to use RDLC but the graphic looks older than RDL(SSRS), assumed SSRS 2016.
Is it possible if I have RDLC reporting like SSRS contents?
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I just need to know, how can I identify the type of SSRS report from Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2012?
For Example: Whether the existing report is table(tablix) or matrix report.
There is no such thing as a tablix or a matrix report in any version of SSRS post 2005. Each report can have charts, tables, matrices, etc all on the one report.
The only way you can know what is contained in the report is to open it and have a look.
Sorry for being a newbie to SSRS.
My design goal:
Near term: develop - using SSRS - a simple client side (no reporting server!) report - based on MS SQL data tables, and embed it into the .NET WPF client (application)
Long term: for additional reports, hire external SSRS experts, so they will provide the reports developed, and I will integrate them into the same WPF application.
I managed to do 2 things:
Develop a simple report connecting to MS SQL, using Reports Builder 3.0 - as a result, an RDL file was generated (the file contains all the DB connections)
Embed a ReportViewer WinForms control into the WPF application.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to load the report I developed, into the application.
I understood from articles on the new that RDL is not designed to support client-side execution (without a server), and RDLC should be used instead. However, I wasn't able to figure out how to conver the report to RDLC, using the Reports Builder - it does not give me an option to save in a different format.
I would appreciate any hint from the experienced people on how to accomplish my goal.
Specifically, should I use RDLC, and if positive - what's the way to get the report in this format?
Thanks
Max
I would recommend using Visual Studio when creating RDLC reports that will be embedded within an application and run in "Local" mode, and using either Microsoft Report Builder or Visual Studio to create RDL reports that will run in "Server" mode within SSRS.
A RDLC report would be created within a WPF Visual Studio project be simply creating a new Report.
A RDL report would be created within a Reports Server project when using Visual Studio.
Alternatively, it appears you could simply rename the file from RDL to RDLC if you don't mind manually correcting the Data Source information in the report definition file: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252109(v=vs.120).aspx.
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`m working in a program that supports English and Arabic languages and in current days we are developing the program reports.
We choosed to use SSRS with ReportViewer control in WindowsFormsApplication(C#)
I searched for a way to change the DirectionLayout property of the tablix according to language(LTR english, RTL arabic) and I tried a lot of solutions but with no success.
I do not want to create two reports or create one report with two tablixes one for each language.
Now I`m trying to do the following:
Use SSRS web services to get report definition
Edit the report definition (convert Tablex DirectionLayout to RTL)
Use SSRS Execution Service to load the definition and render the report
assign the renderd report to ReportViewr control
I would like to know is that possible? And where can I search to achieve this task?
1) Depending on the version of SSRS you are using, you can use GetReportDefinition method (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/reportservice2005.reportingservice2005.getreportdefinition(v=sql.100).aspx) or GetItemDefinition (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/reportservice2010.reportingservice2010.getitemdefinition.aspx)
2) You can use the RDL Object Model to edit the RDL, although it's not trivial and the classes of the Microsoft.ReportingServices.RdlObjectModel namespace are marked internal (SSRS 2008 R2 and higher). You can find sample code by Teo Lachev at http://prologika.com/CS/blogs/blog/archive/2010/03/08/where-is-rdlom-in-r2.aspx and by Lionel Ringenbach at https://github.com/Ucodia/Blog-CustomReportingServices.
For reference information about the classes and methods of the RDL Object Model, start at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff493708.
3-4) I think it would be easier to deploy your edited report back to the server and then call it with the ReportViewer control. Then you can just leverage available methods in a straightforward manner. The ReportViewer control can handle the rendering directly. Here's information on deployment via the Web service: http://tomyrhymond.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/sql-server-reporting-services-deploying-rdl-files/
Working with Reporting Services 2008 r2.
So here's my issue:
We have 5 reports that need to be combined into an "All Reports" report, which was originally done using VB6.
I created a master report with 5 subreports, and of course, it doesn't work.
I need to get certain reports to render as landscape, and others as portrait. Also, I want to get the headers and footers from each of the subreports.
I know that SSRS doesn't support either of these, but is there a way to "pre-render" the subreports as PDF, and then combine them into one PDF via reporting services?
This cannot be done out of the box. The only way you're going to accomplish this is through custom code. There are tools out there that you can build/buy to merge your PDFs into a single document. I can't comment on which tool is the best approach, but I can tell you custom code is the only approach.