I am converting access reports to SSRS reports for a client application. The Clients requirement is, when they open a SSRS report, it should by default open with Print Preview. I am unable to find a property in SSRS which sets it. Any suggestions? or any help?
Please!
Nope, but I have to assume you mean when they open the 'ReportViewer' that they can immiediately see the option to save the file. However.... SSRS has some pretty cool features built into it that you can do depending on access rights and levels.
You can give a user a rest URI that can set a 'format' to render to and thus give them the report in that format. Good for Excel and PDF junkies. It works like this: ( ENSURE you understand that the landing page for SSRS is usually Reports and the SERVICE is usually ReportServer)
http:// (servername)/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?%2f(directoryName)%2f(reportName)&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=PDF
The rest URI on SSRS's service is pretty cool as you can put parameters in, set rendering options, and choose other options.
Expanding on 1 if your client needs something on a custom viewer, you can consume an SSRS web service in a form object in HTML like so:
<form id="frmRender" action="http:// (servername)/(pathtoreport)" method="post"
target="_self">
<H3>My Report Title</H3>
Render in the following format:<br/>
<Select ID="rs:Format" Name="rs.Format" size=1>
<Option Value="HTML4.0">HTML 4.0</Option>
<Option Value="PDF">PDF Format</Option>
</Select>
</form>
This would give a person that can't take the extra second to hit print preview to only be offered two choices of either HTML or PDF
Still not enough? Well you can extract out the SSRS service to a local C# or VB.NET class proxy object and then build a custom .NET interface for a client to build the reports yourself in binary formats. I have done this for custom interaction in existing services that when an event happens a report needs to go out. Be aware this process is pretty time consuming so I would suggest parts 1 and 2 unless you want to dive deep into RDL language code. If so I would read this other thread on diving deeper: Programmatically Export SSRS report from sharepoint using ReportService2010.asmx
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We have a fully working TFS 2013 and have access to the default reports of the process template that we are using. Now we created a new report and try to make it appear in the team explorer of VS2013. Searching the internet indicated that the only possible option would be to download the process template, change the reporting part (e.g. adding the new report as default report) and then upload the "default" reports then via command line tool (tfpt addprojectreports ...)
Since changing (including adding) areas, iterations and other stuff can be done in the "live" system (without editing the process TEMPLATE), it is hard for me to believe that there is no way to add reports without changing the process template.
Does anyone know how to upload a new report? Of course, in the end we would like to see the report in the team explorer...
try http://yourReportingServer/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx
then navigate via collection, project to the folder you want the report to show up in, then "upload file".
You can directly upload the .rdl file to SSRS of your TFS instance.
I am using SSRS Reports in loacl mode so i need to show them on a report viewer in a web project,
my problem is i want to hide some objects depend on its rendering Type Ex: Excel
But how do i do it because Globals!Rendering extension do not support in Local mode.
Any solution?
Pay for a third party's assemblies like GemBox to create a new Excel document from the returned byte[], then you can alter the worksheet however you want and add security.
Is it possible to add a report description (text) near the parameters area, before the report is run in the Report Builder 3.0. Essentially, when the users click the report and right before they run it, I want to provide them with a small description of what the report does and what the parameters. I can do that in the footer but it wont help, because the footer is only generated after the report has executed. Please let me know.
Thanks.
This is not possible with the default SSRS interface. You'll have to wrap SSRS with your own interface to add this.
To build your own SSRS interface, you can use a few different methods, such as embedding a ReportViewer control in a Asp.NET application, or using URL access in an iframe. See How to change the SSRS input parameters position in report
Of course, with Javascript and client side DOM manipulation, you probably could sneak your content into place, but it's not a supported option.
The main problem is that you can't show a report if parameters are needed for it until those parameters are chosen. If you don't want to provide default parameters another way to solve this problem is by actually having 2 reports.
In report #1 you put the parameters and the text box of instructions, but nothing actually using those parameters.
In report #2 you put the parameters and the actual report.
At the bottom of report #1 have a button, that just goes to report #2 passing the parameters selected.
I've used this technique to provide instructions on parameters when I want a quick-and-dirty solution (as opposed to a proper solution such as what Jamie suggested with embedding)
Is there a way that we can Pass data to report from web page
To be more specific I have a report to which I want to bind dataset from Code behind,
I am using ssrs 2008 r2
with C# 4.0 ASP.NET
Basically these reports will be viewed on browser, but what I want is to have something like we can pass the data from the page to the report
So far I found that there is no direct solution but is there any workaround ?
You can do it using XML and pass the data from the page to the report server
The XML datasource will generate dataset in the report and you can use it in your report
For detailed answer please take a look here
What's the best way to handle translations for stock text in a SSRS. For instance - if I have a report that shows a grid of contents what's the best way to have the correct translation for the header of that grid show up, assuming the culture of the report is set correctly.
Put another way - is it possible to do resources in a SSRS report, or am I stuck with storing all that text in the database and querying for it?
AS far as I know, there is no way to localize a report (meaning automating the translation of string litterals)...
Like you said,you basically have to use the User!Language global variable to catch the user's settings and then use that to retrieve the appropriate strings from the DB...
However, you can adapt the display of currency/numeric/date fields according to the user locale. Also possible is changing the interface of the Report Viewer to match your user's langage.
Here are a few links giving tips on how to adapt the locale:
http://www.ssw.com.au/Ssw/Standards/Rules/RulesToBetterSQLReportingServices.aspx#LanguageSetting
Langage pack for Report Viewer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e3d3071b-d919-4ff9-9696-c11d312a36a0