I am quite new in Pentaho and don't seem to understand some basics. My company has a MySQL database (readable) with which we want to print reports daily and annually for the employees to access. I have been looking at tools such as Jaspersoft. But I also stumbled upon Pentaho which has nice reviews. Nevertheless, I installed "Pentaho Report Designer" but didn't manage to do scheduled PDF printing jobs. I saw that for this I have to download the whole Suite (which is quite huge). Does anybody have a solution - is it possible to download only the User Console and the reporting tool? I searched for a while on Google but didn't manage to find the answer. Thanks
Nevermind - I didn't look carefully enough. By downloading the community edition , I can chose directly which modules I want and schedule tasks through the server with the user access panel.
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We've gearing up for a potential Cloud Server Migration as our In-House Server is aging and its capabilities are now being limited vs latest technologies. However, one constraint I'm looking at is the problem of Migrating our Power BI Report Server's reports.
In the past, I was able to migrate from SSRS to Power BI Report Server with the help of a script that automatically backups all Reports in the Server while also populating them in the same Folder Structure as they were in the Server.
I've done some extensive research but I haven't seen any similar approach for Power BI and I was wondering if anyone else have encountered the same problem and/or have a solution for it.
I found a Question posted here on Stackoverflow that is centered for SSRS but somehow also works for Power BI Server. You just need to install this PowerShell Extension and fire the script away.
The only issue here is that it only backs up paginated reports (.rdl) and not .pbix or Graphical Reports.
I have no knowledge about the reporting capabilities of the Team Foundation Server as we have it installed without them.
Now the company wants to generate a report with the hours each person entered each day. Is this possible using the reporting tools of TFS?
Yes, it is possible to now configure the reports as part of TFS even though you did not do so earlier.
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Yes, it is possible to report on the number of hours entered into TFS by user each day
No, it is not a good idea and this is an extremely poor metric to monitor and will likely result in a manifestation of negative behaviours in your team / individuals.
No, it is not possible to do time sheets in TFS.
There is another alternative (paid with free trial): http://www.tfs-timetracker.com.
It is fully integrated into TFS and focuses on tracking time people spend. It's compatible from TFS 2012 up to the latest version (currently TFS 2013 Update 2). (I'm from the team, I hope you accept me 'advertise' our solution in this thread.)
TFS is not a system for tracking "the hours each person entered each day". Forgetting about the reporting for the moment, you must first ask where such data would be coming from? Do you have a customized work item type that you use for entering time?
If the data are present in work items, then you can certainly use the integration with Excel. You can create a work item query and easily open the query in Excel. That will give you the data, and you can do further formatting and analysis using the tools built in to Excel.
By the way I've found some tools related with time tracking with TFS:
Free:
TFS Timesheet
TFS Timesheets
Paid:
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Imaginet
Only the 2nd option will work out of the shelve with TFS 2012.
I've been requested to implement a means of reporting on add/update/deletes on files stored sharepoint (MOSS 2007). After a little bit of research I found out sharepoint has out of the box document auditing which I enabled a couple days ago. I ran the report today, but excel spreadsheet was not very easy to look at.
Also I'm not positive of this, but I believe only site collection administrators can generate thsi audit report, and I dont really want to give the people who want these reports that much permission.
I'm curious what are some alternatives or recommendations? Should I try and get this information off the sQL Server and display it in reporting services, or perhaps try and build a include it in a dashboard?
Thanks
If you have access to the SSRS instance for SharePoint, you can get the report file. You can then make a copy and edit for the report you would like. permissions are a separate issue that can be tackled however you desire, especially if you create a copy and store as a new report.
Traditionally, our plucky team of developers have always migrated our own reports into production. This task is now being taken up by our support staff, who'll need detailed instructions to do so.
We have always deployed straight from VS2005, which can be made available to the new migrators. Is there a better way to migrate these reports without VS2005?
Also, we need to provide some backup and rollback instructions. Have to confess, SSRS reports are probably the only thing I haven't backed up prior to a migration ( I normally take the "hey, they're only reports!" view ). Does anyone know of a good resource which covers backup of reports prior to deployment of replacements?
Have a look at this, it will backup all your reports using a script. I've used for migrating reports between servers. If you open the script file that it generates, you'll get a good idea how to generate your won scripts that you run using the RS.exe utility built into SSRS.
http://www.sqldbatips.com/showarticle.asp?ID=62
I am trying to send reports from Reporting Services 2005 by to an FTP location but this does not seem to be an option within the subscription settings. Is this possible to have done?
There are third party tools for things like this:
http://www.christiansteven.com/products/sql-rd/
If buying something is not an option, you can create a process that FTPs after you drop the report.
You can code your own custom extension to SSRS to "send" reports directly to file or even to a printer from a subscription. The are samples provided by MS that show you how to do both if you don't mind getting into some code (I think they have examples for VB and C#) and XML config files.
I've implemented the printing extension before, very handy.
Sorry it's taken so long for my suggestion, been in other kinds of development lately.
HTH