I have a problem with a report that contains a matrix and a table to it´s right. The matrix contains 13 columns, the table one column. The columns are designed so that in interactive view, they have a combined width of 26.5 cm: 5.5 cm + 12 * 1.5 cm + 3cm, fitting a DinA4 page.
The report is rendered correctly in Internet Explorer 9 but in all other browsers I use (FF, Opera, Safari, all pretty much up to date), the matrix is much to slim, only stretching just about over half of the page.
Without the table right to the matrix, everything is rendered fine in all browsers.
Using a rectangle around elements didn´t help.
Has anyone perhaps had a similar issue? I use Reporting Services 2005.
Rendering for SSRS 2005 and ReportViewer version 9 are terrible in non-IE browsers. MSDN recommends IE 6 or 7 for viewing reports.
Starting with VS2010 and ReportViewer version 10 browser support improved... a lot. I think upgrading is really your only option (short of telling your users to stick with IE).
You haven't told us how your users are viewing the report: through the web manager, the ReportViewer, or some other way? If it's through a ReportViewer, AFAIK you can hook up the 10.0.0.0 controls to SSRS 2005 as well.
Related
Chrome is my preferred browser; I need to interact with SQL Server Reporting Services, though, and when I navigate to a report created with Report Builder (*.rdl file), in Chrome I get no contextual menu. When hovering over the report, it does "light up" (a yellow border is drawn around it) and a dropdown arrow appears in the NE corner, but clicking it does nothing whatsoever.
In IE, it works just fine. However, I really don't want to use IE if I don't have to.
Sharepoint has similar issues (things that can't be done in Chrome and Firefox work fine in IE). Do I just have to "bite the bullet" and use IE when interfacing with Microsoft products, or is there a way to use SSRS from Chrome?
The answer to this very much depends on the version of SQL Server Reporting Services being used, which you haven't mentioned.
In the upcoming SQL Server 2016 version, Chrome is a fully supported browser for interacting with Reporting Services.
However for earlier versions, the only non-IE browsers supported (or at least partially supported) are Firefox and Safari. Older versions support progressively fewer features for non-IE browsers.
This means unless you have SQL Server 2016, using Chrome for reporting services is going to mean compatibility issues. To work around this there are a couple of possible solutions:
1) In a corporate environment, consider using the Legacy Browser Support extension for Chrome - this requires Group Policy settings to force some URLs to open in an IE window.
2) Use the IE Tab extension in Chrome to render certain sites using the IE rendering engine, but inside a Chrome tab.
I have an SSRS report. To freeze the header row, I went to Advanced mode in grouping section and set the FixedData property to True. This solved the issue, but it works in Internet Explorer only, not in Chrome and FireFox. Is it an issue with ReportBuilder or issue with the browsers?
SSRS support for non-Microsoft browsers is somewhat limited.
According to the MSDN site detailing browser support for SSRS 2008 R2:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156511(v=sql.105).aspx
"Not all report functionality is supported by all browsers." With this in mind, when asked to develop a reporting, I ensure my customer is aware that the reports may have limited functionality on other browsers.
It should also be noted that if developing PowerView reports for Sharepoint with SQL Server 2012, the browser plug-in Silverlight is required. Silverlight is not available for iOS devices (iPhone, iPad).
This is an issue with the browser. A lot of features don't work in non-IE browsers like; SSRS parameter datepicker. You'll have to implement custom .nET code in non -IE browsers for this feature to work.
I have created one SSRS report in Microsoft visual studio 2005 with reporting services. it runs fine in IE and displayed properly. but my requirement is to make it compatible with all the browser. It doesn't displayed properly in Non-IE browsers like Chrome, Safari and Mozilla. Its Dimensions get Shrink in these Non-IE-Browsers. So is there any way can i make this report browser-compatible? Please help.
Thanks in Advance
I have a reportviewer control to which I feed a SSRS report.
The report that gets generated is fairly large to fit in single view.
So when we see that report in reportviewer on Firefox 11+ or chrome 15+ the tables rendered are overlapped but it runs perfectly well in IE.
Is there any generic solution for these.
Refer Image:
I have some bad news for you, I'm afraid. Browser support outside IE in version 9.0.0.0 (the 2008 version) is... terrible. As Microsoft states on the corresponding MSDN page.
Internet Explorer is recommended if you want to use all of the available functionality. Although you can use other browsers to view a report, Internet Explorer is the only browser that is guaranteed to support the complete set of features used for working with reports.
With version 10.0.0.0 things improved. In our experience, they improved a lot. This MS blog post from 2009 also mentions this:
Significantly improved browser compatibility. We’ve put a huge amount of effort into improving our support across browsers. We’ve seen plenty of reports of extra scrollbars or other problematic renderings in Firefox, Safari, and standards mode in general. The initial feedback on these changes has been very positive.
The corresponding MSDN page on ReportViewer 10.0 is also quite a bit less "pushy" about users having to resort to IE. There's still a few things that are IE-specific (printing and zooming, for example).
We've experienced the same issues, such as overlapping tables... and then some. Trying to override the styles that were causing this turned out hard, if not impossible. However, just about all of those issues with layouting were gone after we upgraded to 10.0.0.0.
So, I started my answer with "I have some bad news", so here it is: AFAIK you can't reasonably solve these issues without upgrading to the newer Report Viewer.
I'm working on a large site and starting on browser compatibility next week. Just had a glance in some different browsers to have so idea of whats ahead of me and i noticed differences in FF3.5 vs FF3.
The site has been built in FF3.5/IE8. So I'm wondering if there are know issues between the two FF versions? A quick google search returned me nothing.
Regards,
Denis
Of course there are differences. Many bugs were fixed, many features implemented.
There's a list of new features in 3.5 on MDC: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.5_for_developers#For_web_site_and_application_developers
...and you can get the list of all changes from bugzilla.mozilla.org, but that would be pointless, since probably only small part of them affect your app.
I think you should just try testing your app in 3.0.
didn't saw any differences between FF 3.5 and 3.0
In some rare cases you can see differences between 2.0 & 3.5 for example you want to change appearance of upload file control, but for this example differences between different browser families are more evident.
In our company we use only latest version of FF for slicing work also because generally most of FF users (80%) have upgrade their browser in first month of version release