I am trying use SSRS as a reporting solution and love all the features like scheduling and export to various formats that comes with it. But I want to also have interactive charts and wonder whether SSRS can do that. I don't think it can do it natively but does any one knows an add in or a workaround?
I am trying to achieve something like below ?
http://www.zingchart.com/gallery/chart/#!line-chart-with-crosshair-tooltips
Many thanks.
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As you said SSRS doesn't support this sort of interactions natively, it is very limited about to presentation and HTML customization, also interaction via JavaScript is almost null.
Dundas offers third-party controls to create great visualization but I am unsure about using Dundas MS Integration you can create the specific visualization you need.
Telerik offers another product to integrate with SSRS and create custom visualization.
Technologies offered by Microsoft:
Also if you own a SQL Server Enterprise license you may want to use Datazen, a fantastic alternative to SSRS to create interactive visualizations compatible with multiple platforms and devices. PowerBI is another option you have to create interactive dashboards and reports.
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Is it possible to create Custom (own) controls for the SQL Server Mobile Report publisher? Meaning own graphes (Gauges), styles, maps, etc...
I was unable to find any information about this topic on Google (or other sites like SO). Few days back we had lectures/training with some developer (basics of Reporting) and he shortly said that it is possible, but we haven't got time to go through it.
My expectations (as an answer) is explanation what tool can be used and/or link to tutorial.
Possibly also some information (with source) that this cannot be created in version 2016.
Short story: It is not possible to create custom control in Mobile Reports Publisher as of now (March 2017). There is no support in the software itself. However Microsoft will allow store/use Power BI reports within Reporting services.
Long story: I've reached out the tutorial guru and discussed this further. We've found that the original statement is not true and mobile reports cannot be adjusted in a way of creating new control or modifying style sheet.
But: Since Mobile reports are sort of family with product called Power BI, Microsoft has decided (as described in MS Technical preview - January 2017) to support Power BI Reports on next version MS Reporting Services. And as there can be done some visualisation changes and even create new controls, most likely we will be also able to create our own control.
I am using Microsoft Reporting Services to provide users with custom reports. I create them in Business Intelligence studio, deploy them and have a website where users can view those reports.
Now i need i new tool to do almost the same. I need to create reports and users has to be able to view them in PC, Mac, mobile phone, tablet, etc. Microsoft Reporting Services has some problems with Android and iOS, and that is the problem for me. Users cannot scroll the report (if it is longer thant report viewer window), expand does not allways work and etc.
I need a tool, to create same reports and allow to view them anywhere. I was thinking about pentaho, but it is no exactly what i need. Maybe somebody has any solutions?
Pentaho's analyzer tool is good on tablets/mobile but unfortunately it is EE only, not community/open source.
If you're happy with enterprise another option is yellowfin?
Alternatively with the community edition of Pentaho you can make use of CTools and there is a very good dashboarding framework with explicit support for mobile devices - may be worth looking at that?
Why exactly is pentaho "not exactly what you need" ? What are your perceived issues with it?
I have not used pentaho. However, I know any limitations in the web viewer control are based on browser support and interpretation. One workaround to these limitations is to reference the reportexecution2005 interface in your project and call the Render method with HTML40 format and designate HTMLFragment in the device context header, this will return the report html content as a byte[]. However, any custom paging/printing/zooming would have to be re-implemented in your web app :(
I am currently working on a database that contains two tables: tblAuthor and tblBooks. I am looking for a way to generate a timline look with a strong visual emphasis. I do not know all the possible oulets for creating reports in Access and any advice (including give up this isn't possible) would be welcome. I am hoping to format it similarly to a Gantt chart.
If there is anyway of doing this, or if you have any other suggestions please let me know!!
I work for a company that develops Gantt chart controls. We still develop, maintain and support an ActiveX Edition, which seamlessly integrates into Access. Here is an overview of some key features of the general control:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxc4-R1Kn_4&feature=plcp
If these features do what you want your Gantt to do, then you can download a free trial version from our website. You then should also download the samples collection as this also will provide you with an example of how to directly embed the control into Access. However, make sure that you download the ActiveX version (you have to register first before downloading): http://www.netronic.com/gantt/gantt-software/free-gantt-chart.html
Hope this helps. If you have questions, please send an email to support#netronic.de, and mention the stackoverflow post from Martin. Good luck with your project :-)
We are looking to integrate a reporting and charting tool in our web application. The web application is based on GWT, Spring and Hibernate. The candidates that we are evaluating are
- BIRT
- Jasper Report
- Pentaho
- Crystal Report (It's not free, but being free is not the
highest priority for the project).
Some of the features that we are looking for
- How well it can integrate with the technology stack?
- How easy it is to design new reports. We want our not so technical customer to be able to do it easily?
Any insight, links experiences would be helpful.
GWT, Hibernate and JasperReports make a perfect stack.
Please take a look at Windward Reports. Without knowing more about the type of reports you need, I can't say for sure if it will be better, but in most cases it saves a lot of time over alternatives. And you can do more with it.
The unique difference is with Windward you design the reports in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. So it's a very powerful easy to use design tool you already know. And because Word/Excel/PPT are free-form, you can do most anything for your final report.
Is it possible to create a custom third party for Reporting Services?
The Dundas chart controls are an example of this however I am unsure if support for these have been internally built into SSRS..
Yes.
After consulting google I've found that SSRS has CRIs (Custom Report Items). These can be created in a .NET language by implementing the ICustomReportItem interface (for the rendering) and inheriting from the CustomReportItemDesigner class (for the designer). These use the Microsoft.ReportDesigner and Microsoft.ReportingServices.Interfaces namespaces.
There is also a restriction in CRIs that the end output needs to be an image. This would make any interactivity very difficult.
For more information see
Jazz Up Your Data Using Custom Report Items In SQL Server Reporting Services
Creating a Custom Report Item
The Dundas controls have some internal knowledge of SSRS (although they are build with the public API). For example they workaround certain SSRS CRI limitations using reflection - I found that by default in SSRS 2008 CRI can have only one drill trough action - something that Dundas and other vendors (Nevron) by the way workaround...
Otherwise interactivity will be limited to Tooltip, URL link, Bookmark and Jump to Report actions for all custom reports and the image output is only raster.