I've built a report which displays data from a db. This works fine, rendering the report correctly.
My query returns ~40,000 records. I would like to automatically generate a pdf file for each record, named using one of the fields returned by the query.
How do I automate this? I have Report Builder 3, and Visual Studio.
Thanks.
I'd write a report that takes a parameter and generates the report for one record. Deploy to your Reporting Services server.
Then I'd write a quick program that loops through your data and passes each unique record value to the report as a parameter and saves it as a PDF with a unique name. It's quite easy to run reports programmatically and Microsoft have some code to get you started.
If you have Enterprise SKU of SQL Server, look at data driven subscriptions. Another option could be creating report with one record per page, and then splitting resulting PDF into individual PDFs using some free tools.
Related
If I run a report within SSRS developer, I show no subtotals in specific rows, exactly as it should because there is nothing to subtotal. However, if I deploy the report, those same rows have an erroneous subtotal in them. I ensured I deployed and ran the correct report. I even deleted the report and re-deployed. I need to correct this because it is an important report that gets emailed to the entire company.
I believe This is very classic case of Data been saved as Cache in your local System. But when you deploy the Report, there is actual Data available on application.
What you need to do is delete this FileName.rdl.data file and try your report again in Developer, it should get update data from application
Does anyone know if it is possible to have SSRS log a PDF of every report run? I'd like to store the output (preferrably a PDF) somewhere of every report. I need to store what was visually presented to them, not just the parameters that were passed in.
Can SSRS do this out of the box somehow? If it can't, I'll have to log a copy via code on each call we make to the server, which I'm worried will slow down our application. Our reports are run from front-end code calling into SSRS, if that matters.
Thanks in advance for any help!
I don't think its possible out of box. Its a very unique requirement.
Possible solution is to create a report which will be using ReportServer.dbo.ExecutionLog table to generate report of execution. Once your report is ready you can configure it to generate PDFs. You can refer to http://blogs.wrox.com/article/creating-a-report-server-usage-report-with-sql-server-reporting-services/ for creating such report.
I am new to SSRS and I just want to know if it is possible to loop through datasets in an SSRS report and save each dataset separately as an Excel spreadsheet.
For example, if we have a report with 5 managers, if you click on each one of these managers you can see/drill down to all the supervisors that are under this manager and if you click on any of those supervisors you can see all the employees that are under that particular supervisor. Now, what I'm trying to do is I want to save each one of the managers' (and supervisors' eventually) downline in an excel document (although it really can be in any format as long as they can later drill down on it) so that each manager can only get his/her own supervisors/employees. Can this be done in SSRS and if so I'll try to figure out how. Also, if you think there is a better way to restrict every manager from seeing every other manager's supervisors employees please let me know. The report that I currently have is perfect but everyone can see other people's supervisors/employees and their data.
Thanks!!
if you want to generate flat files to send out, then you have to create a parameter on your report, deploy it to the report server, and then create 5 subscriptions to that report.
in each subscription you can set the parameter and where you want to write/email the file.
If the subscriptions part doesn't work well for you (if you have too many to manage), you can use data driven subscriptions (enterprise edition feature), rs.exe scripts (if you figure out how it works), or use my new cool tool (http://busysreports.codeplex.com)
also, you don't have to generate flat files, you can also set up some security so when the managers open the report in reporting services they see only their data.
I am calling reports through Data Driven Subscriptions. We are having very huge data (in millions). So the reports will be generating very large excel files.
We have provided download option to user for downloading created report excel files. But if file sizes are very huge, User is not able to dowload the files.
Does anyone have an idea how to split report data to multiple excel files. Does SSRS can handle it? After some size limit split data to next file. Like generate multiple files for same report call.
You can split the records into multiple shits by going to page break option in report properties.or you can go to tool tip and write custom expressipn there to how much data you want to see in one shit.
or you can use the help of SSIS to split the report into miltiple excel work book.
AFAIK there is no feature in SSRS that handles this.
You will have to roll your own solution: generate the report asynchronosly (or scheduled) server side, then create an application to distribute the files in seperate parts.
I am new to SSRS and I'm trying to automate a report for our client. I have comnpleted the design but I have not deployed it to the reporting server. When I manually export the report to excel via the design viewer in Business Intelligence Studio 2008, I get a new workbook every time. However, I want this report to export to excel automatically, to the same workbook, on the same worksheet, every time it is run per month. This way, i can create an excel workbook that contains the report data and other worksheets with templates that auto populate, based on the report data.
I'd like to avoid exporting it to a new workbook, then copying and pasting into the workbook with all my templates manually. I'd also like to avoid exporting to CSV or XML and then importing it into Excel.
Is this possible? Perhaps this is via the deployment of the report and I just haven't gotten that far?
Thanks!
Hi welcome to stack overflow.
Can l suggest looking at another related technology SSIS (Sql Server Integrated Services). This will allow you to extract the data from a data source. Then using the the out of the box components export the data to Excel. Once you have created the package in SSIS, the package can then be scheduled to run (if you have SQL server instance) to run at specific times. I have used that solution in my current role to produce reports automatically and then email then to various people.
The link below shows one method of exporting to excel using BIDS, and suggests some other ways.
http://cavemansblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/ssis-export-data-from-sql-server-2005-to-excel/
Also this link http://dougbert.com/blog/post/Excel-in-Integration-Services-Part-1-of-3-Connections-and-Components.aspx is one of three that covers the topic of connecting SSIS to Excel, has some excellent advice IMHO
SSRS has a scheduler build in, which can run reports at specified times, this l think is only available in the enterprise edition. This facility will if memory serves right, will not insert the data, only create or overwrite the file each time. So l am not sure if this is the solution you are looking for.