SSRS URL Access slower than Report Manager - reporting-services

I am using URL access to embed a report in an application using a URL that looks something like this:
https://servername/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/ReportPath/&parameter=value
This report has several parameters whose valid values are populated by queries.
The report is displayed in about the same amount of time as it takes when accessing the report via Report Manager.
However, I've noticed that if I change a parameter in Report Manager and click the "View Report" button, it refreshes a few seconds faster than if I refresh the report by URL access.
I assume this is because refreshing the report in Report Manager cuts out some processing steps. It looks like a bunch of state is sent back to the server when you refresh the report using the "View Report" button in Report Manager, whereas I presume refreshing the report via URL access is essentially doing all of the work from scratch.
Are my assumptions correct? Is there any way I can refresh a report with new parameters via URL access just as quickly as it does when using Report Manager?

You're assumptions are correct, as far as I know the Report Manager and ReportViewer controls will have a session spanning multiple requests. (Although I'm a bit surprised this would also work when you change the parameters, because I can't imagine what steps could be skipped in that case.)
To control this, the Report Manager uses sessions. Even though I haven't tried it myself, you should be able to do this with URLS by using the SessionId and related parameters.
Let us know if this worked for you!

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Automate a subscription in SSRS weekly using Windows File Share

I hope this one is simple.
I have a paginated report set up on the SSRS online service. There is a subscription feature that allows for the report to be sent to a destination automatically.
I have all of the settings set up, the schedule, Destination, and Delivery Options with a filepath.
The report can be run manually, and a file will appear at the desired file-path location. For some reason, despite setting a report specific schedule, the feature will not run automatically.
What requirement am I missing here?

SSRS Report Viewer Unable to Pass Credentials to Report Server from Hyperlink

We have a 3-rd party (like a portal) hosting our SSRS Report Viewer inside an iFrame. The source of the iFrame is an ASP.NET web form page with the Report Viewer control. We pass the credentials to the Report Viewer from the code behind and everything works fine. Reports render in the viewer and the aspx page is running on an HTTPS site.
The report developer placed a hyperlink on a report that opens an non-HTTP url to the Report Sever that is supposed to download an Excel file. But the Report Server is behind a DMZ (actually running as a Windows Service and not IIS) and prompts users for credentials and only downloads the Excel file when the Report Server credentials (same ones used by the Report Viewer) are entered. This sounds like a double-hop issue.
Anybody trying to browse to the URL manually also get a prompt until they are authenticated because the SSRS is not in our domain.
TL;DR;
Is there anyway to pass the credentials of the Report Server from within a hyperlink inside the Report Viewer?
Functions as designed. Reports Developer did not really understand implementation details and found a work around.

Combine multiple SSRS Report and publish that to SSRS native web portal

How can i combine couple of rdl reports and display that to SSRS native web portal. I already created that report and deployed to the server (SSRS Native portal) using Sql Server data tool 2015. But my client wants to view all reports in the same window. Although all reports has the same parameter.enter image description here
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The SSRS native web portal doesn't contain a mechanism to link multiple reports and run them on the save page via shared parameters (or anything even like that).
You have two options:
Create the merged report yourself. You should be able to import (or copy/paste) the datasets from each report into a new report, link them all one one set of parameter(s), and copy paste the content of each report (then fix all broken references).
The option above is the naive way to merge three reports into one. Instead, you could create a new master report, add the shared parameter and then add each additional report as a subreport to the parent report. Tutorial here.
Create an ASP.NET application that wraps the multiple reports into a single page. This will be quite a bit of work if you have never done this, but you would be able to create a custom parameter(s), pass the parameter(s) into the each report through code and render the multiple reports on a single page.
I would recommend option number 2.

How to make an SSRS subscription with no delivery methods

im using SSRS reporting service,
on the Delivered by i have the E-Mail and window file share options,
I want the reports run every hour but i dont want to get a mail or any other delivery.
is it possible?
how can i do it?
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You can configure the cache for a report in the Cache Refresh options in the Report Manager
From MSDN:
Open Report Manager, and locate the report or shared dataset for which you want to configure cache refresh plan properties.
Hover over the report or shared dataset, and click the drop-down arrow.
In the drop-down list, click Manage. The General properties page opens.
Click the Cache Refresh Plan tab.
To create a new cache plan, click New Cache Refresh Plan.
Note
You must enable and start the SQL Server Agent service to create a cache refresh plan.
To create a copy of a cache plan and then customize it, click New from Existing

SSRS Report in CRM 4 IFrame not updating

I am using CRM 4 and have uploaded an ssrs report into the reports area. I published this for external use and in one of the entites have an iFrame that points to this published report.
This all works well, the problem is that if I update some of the info that the report is looking at and refresh the page the report doesn't update.
In fact I need to close the browser and re-open it of the report to refresh. This only happens in the iFrame, if I re-run the report in the reports section it updates correctly.
I assume this is because the info is cached somewhere. Does anybody know if there is a way to force CRM/SSRS to get the info afresh every time?
Thanks,
Neil
You need to add an additional parameter to the end of the URL used as the IFRAME source
&rs:ClearSession=true
This forces a refresh of the report each time it is accessed.