We have several reports that use .png images for company logos in the header of the reports.
We are deploying reports using the SQL SSRS 2010 webservice. The idea is that the deployment must be done automatically with a script that invokes the SSRS webservice, and it must be 100% unattended
So far, we've successfully uploaded the reports, however, we are not sure how to upload the .png images
Is there any of the webservices methods that can accomplish this? Or is there a way to copy the file directly to somewhere
If you set the image as embedded then the image will be encoded with the .rdl file and you don't have top worry about copying the images.
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I have a process that generates a set of HTML files and subfolder containing CSS/Javascript files.
I thought I could use the publish-pipeline-artifact to publish this HTML report and have it displayed but it doesn't work.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/publish-pipeline-artifact?view=azure-devops
Is there another way ?
Azure DevOps can understand a report if it is in the format of a format called TRX.
Once the report is generated, you can upload using the Azure DevOps workflow function
For html report, one way would be deploy the html files to a web page which allow iframe embedding and then use "Embedded Webpage" widget in Azure DevOps to show the content.
I think you meant something like what in this feature request is asked.
We have several reports that use .png images for company logos in the header of the reports.
We are deploying reports using the SQL SSRS 2010 webservice. The idea is that the deployment must be done automatically with a script that invokes the SSRS webservice, and it must be 100% unattended
So far, we've successfully uploaded the reports, however, we are not sure how to upload the .png images
Is there any of the webservices methods that can accomplish this? Or is there a way to copy the file directly to somewhere
If you have a single file, just upload it directly from SSRS. If you have multiple files, create a new Reporting Service project and add all the images to that project and upload all those images to a new folder Images in SSRS. This is really simple and I would recommend this.
Quick references:
https://www.tutorialgateway.org/upload-file-to-ssrs-report-manager/
Bulk uploading images to SSRS
Hope it helps.
How can i combine couple of rdl reports and display that to SSRS native web portal. I already created that report and deployed to the server (SSRS Native portal) using Sql Server data tool 2015. But my client wants to view all reports in the same window. Although all reports has the same parameter.enter image description here
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The SSRS native web portal doesn't contain a mechanism to link multiple reports and run them on the save page via shared parameters (or anything even like that).
You have two options:
Create the merged report yourself. You should be able to import (or copy/paste) the datasets from each report into a new report, link them all one one set of parameter(s), and copy paste the content of each report (then fix all broken references).
The option above is the naive way to merge three reports into one. Instead, you could create a new master report, add the shared parameter and then add each additional report as a subreport to the parent report. Tutorial here.
Create an ASP.NET application that wraps the multiple reports into a single page. This will be quite a bit of work if you have never done this, but you would be able to create a custom parameter(s), pass the parameter(s) into the each report through code and render the multiple reports on a single page.
I would recommend option number 2.
I have a logo at the top of all my reports that I have as an embedded image.
These reports are displayed in an ASP.Net web app via the SSRS web service interface - all pretty standard stuff but the image doesn't render - I just get a broken link.
There are a number of possible solutions for this problem and I've tried a few things including setting UseSessionCookies to false in the ConfigurationInfo table.
What I've noticed is that the image displays fine when I change the anonymous account of the consuming web app from a least privileged service account to my own user account.
I do not understand why this and can't work out what special permissions are needed by my web app's service account to be able to view embedded images in reports.
Can anyone help?
Ok, problem solved. Kind of. The problem isn't limited to embedded images and occurs because I am not using the reporting services viewer.
To summarise:
1) when your web application is making the call to the report server it is fully authorized to do so. A SessionID is generated that is ONLY available to the web application account (i.e. the Service account under which the app runs).
2) the web app outputs the RAW HTML4.0 to the screen.
3) the browser receives the HTML and tries to retrieve the images referenced in the HTML.
4) the browser is running as your user account (e.g. domain\username1)
5) the report server receives a request that looks like:
6) now the SessionID listed in the URL is not associated with domain\username1, so report server claims it does not exist.
When you set the app domain to use the domain\username1 account, then the SessionID happens to be associated with your the account so suddently things 'work'. But the moment real users try the system they complain that the images are missing, since their domain\usernameN does not match the app pool account.
The solutions to this problem are as follows:
1) use the Report Viewer control. This will ensure that the URLs received by the Browser will point back to your web app and your web app identity will be used to retrieve them from the report server.
2) in your web app code, parse the HTML4.0 that you get back from the Render call, fetch and cache all the images, re-write the HTML4.0 links to point to the cached images stored by your web app and then send it to the browser (if this seems complicated... then use the Report Viewer control since it make the scenario work)
3) you can try to use the MHTML output format, this will produce a fully qualified report with images embedded in the since binary stream. The consequence of this is it is harder to embed it within an application page... but not insurmountable
I chose to use a variation on 2) because I don't want to use the report viewer. The logo I'm trying to display is already hosted in the calling web app so I just replace the src attribute of the img tag in the response returned from the SSRS report execution service with the url to this location.
I really don't want to use the report viewer as suggested as the best solution to this issue. Why SSRS has to use session information to return something as simple as a logo that is displayed on all reports is beyond me.... It has taken ages to get to the bottom of this and the solution isn't especially pretty....
Is this an external image? Take a look at this MSDN article that explains the permissions needed for retrieving an image:
When the report is previewed in Report Designer, preview uses the
credentials of the user to display the image. When the report is run
on the report server, the report server uses the unattended execution
account to retrieve the image. If the unattended execution account is
not specified, the image is retrieved using no credentials (anonymous
user account). If either of these accounts have insufficient rights to
access the image, the image will not be displayed in the report.
I would check the permissions on the image in the Report Manager.
We are using SSRS and when we "Upload" an .rdl file using the web report manager we would like to automatically take a copy of that .rdl file and put it on a network drive.
I'm not familiar with SSRS at all and I don't even know where to begin to look. I'm assuming that there is an .API.
Is there a way to capture via the web report manager after the file has been uploaded to the DB that I can then make a copy of that rdl file to the network path of my choosing?
Update:
It appears that Microsoft doesn't allow customization of the Report Manager.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157147(v=sql.90).aspx
So maybe the answer is that I can't do what I want to do.
You can't do what you are asking using Report Manager. However you can use the rs.exe utility provided with Reporting Services to create a script that will download the rdl file(s) from the report server to disk.
Example here: http://blog.geektrainer.com/2012/04/download-all-reports.html
Looks like you are trying to keep the back up of the SSRS reports. Here is the link which downloads the file to your local drive. You can modify the same for copying to the network location if you want.