I would like to NOT show the 'loading' popup when the report refreshes because this is displayed on several monitors and it catches viewers' attention. Report is deployed to a SQL report server. Is there a way to achieve this?
If you have an ASP.NET developer on hand, have them use the ReportViewer control to embed the report directly into a plain old aspx page. I've done this to a few reports, and they never show the usual "Report is being generated" message that you get when accessing them via Report Manager. (You might have to set AsyncRendering="False" on the ReportViewer control to get the desired behavior.)
This will also allow you to dress up the page a bit, and conceal the various Reporting Services toolbars, which would be ideal for a billboard display like you describe. Put a meta refresh in the page to get a 30-second refresh, and you're set.
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i have .NET application where i have iframe and i am loading SSRS drildown mobile report URL into iframe and it's working but when i moving to 2nd lavel of drildown report it's loading report but report header apears which i don't want to show to the user.
i am using below URL to load drildown report
iframe.scr = "http://Desktop-1213/SSRSReports/mobilereport/MainReport?rs:Embed=true";
want to remove the hignlighed in red color one.
another way i have tried, used rs:Embed=true in dripthrough custum URL option but it's opening in different window. but i want in same window.
let me know if need more clarification
Take a look at the documentation here and search for rv:HeaderArea. It may lead to a workable solution. I would also be curious what rc:toolbar=false would look like in your situation.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/url-access-parameter-reference
If all else fails you can retrieve the raw report as html40 directly form the api, however, most of the navigational features will have to be re-implemented.
My clients have upwards of 40 reports with very similar parameters. These are hosted on SharePoint, but are consumed by users through a web application, and so when a report is selected and the parameters are shown, the report's title is lost. My clients are irritated that they don't know, from the parameters page, which report is being displayed (many have very similar names and they are selected from a grid, and so mis-clicking is an issue)
Is there some trick to showing the report title on the parameters page?
Thanks
Edward
I will suggest to add an additional parameter and show the report name in that.
Some points to highlight in your question.
First, I don't know any trick for showing the title in the parameter pane, as a matter of fact, I don't believe it does exist. Showing it as a parameter is something that I wouldn't do as a solution for a customer.
Second, not showing the little line with the report's path is something that can be chosen when invoking the report (by means of url, see links below) and if they are accessing through another web application, this should be the one taking care of this matter. Note that if you show the url or the little line with the path, you can compromise security (access will depend on folders setup, but you leave a door open). This web application should know what is it showing and should display the right name (any the actual report's name or a custom name within the web app). This is what happens when you embed SSRS reports using a browser in an external app.
Third, the report itself should have a title displayed once the report is executed.
As a summary, I don't believe this issue's solution is under SSRS management/development scope.
Links to know more about executing SSRS with an URL.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155391.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155391.aspx
As you can see, there are lots of things that you can do playing around with the url, such as:
Pass parameters
Hide path pane
Hide parameters pane
Render format, you can call an url asking for an excel or pdf render and you get the download dialog for the file.
Hope this helps.
I am currently working on a GWT application that requires report
printing. The use can select report parameters from a screen, and
upon clicking print we would like to display the file as it is being
generated. Currently we have server side code that is generating HTML
and writing it to a file. When the user clicks print, an RPC is being
made to pass the report parameters to the server and begin the
report. A second RPC is made after the report has started to obtain
the report's URL. From here, we are creating a Frame and setting the
URL to be the URL retrieved by the second RPC.
The issue I am running into, is that when setUrl gets
called, it only displays as much HTML that was contained in the file
at the time of the call. What would be the best way to refresh just
the frame containing the HTML report? It appears making subsequent
calls to setUrl passing in the same Url each time would do the trick,
but it actually doesn't seem to contain the additional content that
would've been written since the last call. It is also resetting the
vertical scroll bar's position each time back to the top of the bar
which is something else I would like to prevent.
Is there a better way to go about doing this?
I think it would be better to request HTML in chunks from GWT and render them as they arrive. Doing this with ajax instead of wholesale refreshes will enable better behavior with the scrollbar, eliminate flashing, get around caching problems, and will also let you add some feedback like a progress bar, estimated time remaining, etc.
There's a lot more infrastructure required for this, but your suggested solution doesn't seem quite appropriate for the task.
I have a report that renders a report header on its own page and then two pages for each member that it finds. The report will render each page correctly for the report header and the first member listed but all formatting is lost when the page changes to the second member (page 4 overall). Once this happens all formatting is lost for the entire report: right aligned becomes left, tablix table loses boarders, font changes, etc. It looks very much like when a webpage loses connection to it CSS file. When I navigate back to the first member the formatting is lost here as well and I cannot navigate back to the report header page. I have to navigate back to page two then back to page one twice for the report header page to reappear.
To make things more complicate the report renders as expected in BIDS, report Builder 3.0 and Firefox. The report has worked before from the Report Manager via Internet Explorer (IE) and only recently started to fail. There have only been minor changes since it last ran well form Report Manager via IE and I have investigated them all. I ran copies of the source from both IE and Firefox through an html validator at W3 Schools and they both had the same exact errors that is typical of Microsoft rendered XHTML. The interesting issues is when you have the failed formatted report rendered in Report Manager via IE and then choose to export the file as a PDF or MHTML the exports render the same as expected when looking at BIDS or Report Builder 3.0 including the MHTML viewed via IE.
I really have no idea how to solve this issue and have tried many different approaches to resolve. Any insight would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
I just observed similar behavior where my report rendered fine in BIDS, but when deployed to reporting services (2008R2), it rendered incorrectly. In my case, after looking at 2 pages of the report, the third page lost all formatting. Then when I went back to pages 1 and 2, the formatting was lost as well.
The change I made that caused this behavior was very simple. I set the Hidden property for the same text box back to True.
The fix was to do the opposite, set the Hidden property for a text box back to False. In order to hide the box, I changed the font color to match the page background color. This set of workarounds worked for me. The loss of formatting definitely appears to be a bug in the rendering engine of reporting services.
the Header in the subreport that i had i removed it first and then added it again and set the the show page header and footer to falst. this did the trick in formatting to the PDF correctly/
Reading MSDN (and other sources) about custom report items (CRI) for reporting services 2005. It looks like I'm limited to generating a bitmap. Not even with some mapping overlay for detecting mouse clicks on it. Is there away to go around this? There are two things I would like to do:
Embed HTML directly into the report, to format dynamic text.
Embed flash (swf) control in the report. This could be done with HTML if the previous point is possible. But maybe there is another way
Any suggestions? What am I missing?
You didn't missing anything.
For me, like you mentioned, the main disadvantage is, that with a CRI you can only render images. You don't get any scalable text or something similar.
If you want include swf, you need to render it as static image.
You can render the report as HTML and include the report using a floating frame in a page with the swf file. You can use functions to format dynamic text. SSRS 2008 solves some of these problems with the "richly" formated textbox (not RTF). it may worth a look, if it's an option.
You might want to take a look at Data Dynamics Reports which has all of the RS features and has better support for custom report items with a complete API not just bitmaps.