Does anyone know how to convert a template created in SSRS 2008 to be deployed to SSRS 2005 Server?
You cannot run a 2008 report on a 2005 server. I have heard that there are tools that exist to do the conversion, though. See this question.
You can't convert SSRS 2008 to 2005 as it is not backward compatible. There are tools available but those are also not able to convert with 100% accuracy.
Have you tried just uploading the RDL to your 2005 server? The RDL is just an xml file so if you're lucky 2005 server can read and execute the file normally- or perhaps any errors you may get will help you find out what you need to do.
I recently converted 2005 RDLs to 2008, and if i look at the DIFF between the two files it's rather large, so dont get your hopes up :(
Otherwise I have no experience with this.
Try converting 2008 RDL to 2005 RDL. You can find the specs in the following links:
The RDL spec for reporting services 2008 is available here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/5/7/6575f1c8-4607-48d2-941d-c69622e11c32/RDL_spec_08.pdf
The spec for 2005 is available here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/2/0/c2091a26-d7bf-4464-8535-dbc31fb45d3c/rdlNov05.pdf
Open your report in notepad and then change XML header.Replace 2008 with 2005.
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I am using SSRS 2005 in an old project, it has been working perfect with ReportViewer in local mode for many years, but recently I encountered an exception while exporting the excel report. ".xls" file has a max rows limit (65536), I decide to upgrade the SSRS to a higher version.
Since many years past, there generated thousands of reports, the report definitions were saved as XML in the database. I tried to load the old report definition with ReportViewer 2010 (SQL Server 2008 r2), but failed.
After some research, I know it is easily to convert RDL 2005 to RDL 2010 by opening the report in Visual Studio, it did work as expected.
Is there a library or command line tool to convert RDL 2005 to RDL 2010?
I decided to rewrite the logic creating SSRS Report, basically it is translating business logic to a xml string.
BTW, I got this repository: dynamic-rdlc, it is much easier.
I just started working with other developers. When they send .rdl files back to me and i try to open the file through visual studio 2005, it shows some raw html rather than the design view. The html says:
One or more errors encountered while loading the designer. The errors are listed below.
The Report element was not found.
How can i fix this?
For anyone who has the same problem, I figured it out:
The developers modified and saved using 'Report Builder'(v. 3.0). Report Builder 3.0 is designed to support SSRS 2008 R2 only and supports a new version of the RDL schema, which is not compatible with SSRS 2005. So, i had to use SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services instead.
can i run my reports developed in using ssrs 2008 on ssrs 2000
No. No you can not.
To get 2005 reports to run in 2000 was just a question of stripping out a couple of lines, but 2008 is different so this does not appear possible.
See this Converting SQL2008 RDL file to SQL2005
Not quite a duplicate as you want to run on 2000 and not 2005.
I have a report that has ~1k columns and ~17k rows and I'm trying to render it to Excel 2007 with SSRS 2008 R2 Nov CTP.
SSRS team members have mentioned in multiple places that Excel 2007 format is included in 2008 R2, for instance:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/69545568-73cb-4f4c-8f35-44472ba6d013
Now, it's certainly possible that it just hasn't made it into the product yet (at least as of Nov CTP), and if that's the case, that would be good to know, too (and ideally when it would be in the product).
The repro report and data (along with attempts showing the existing interface still does Excel 2003 format) are attached to the bottom of this blog post, FWIW:
http://cid-456117cf53a42144.spaces.live.com/default.aspx
Unfortunately, it looks like I was misinterpreting Jin Chen's answer ("Here, has good news, we have improved the ability in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2") - there was an answer later by another member of SSRS that states that 2008 R2 will not support xlsx / Excel 2007 output:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqlreportingservices/thread/87cfd5d4-ea3c-4250-aab8-a1a3dffa3241
As far as a full featured Excel 2007 xlsx renderer, it is definitely on our list to build but it will be post SSRS 2008 R2.
So, maybe it was in R2 but got cut, but either way, it doesn't appear to be an option now.
For those who might be in a similar situation that run across this question on SO, if programmatically generated the spreadsheet is an option for you, I would recommend EPPlus.
http://epplus.codeplex.com/
Excel 2007-2010 format (Office Open XML) is the default rendering format in SQL Server 2012
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255234.aspx
I can't believe this - I just starting developing an SSRS report, using a SQL 2008 Report Server project in VS 2008. When I try to render the report in the VS 2008 ReportViewer control, I get this error
The report definition is not valid. Details: The report definition has an
invalid target namespace
'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition'
which cannot be upgraded."
I understand the error, and it has been well-documented all over the web over the past year and a half or so, but can it be that there is still no way of viewing these reports in the latest ReportViewer control? In other words, all these announcements from last year that MS would release an updated ReportViewer control in Q1 of 2009 that can render SSRS 2008 reports were wrong?
The only workaround is to install SQL Server 2005 RS? How have others solved this? Switch to VS 2010? Can I register the 2010 ReportViewer control with my VS2008 project, and is that going to solve the problem? So many questions, but no answers ...
Unfortunately, that is indeed the truth :-(
See Bill Vaughn's Retraction: The ReportViewer Control Does NOT Support SQL Server 2008 RDL in Local Mode for more details.
Hard to believe - but true :-( Let's hope it'll be better in Reporting Services for SQL Server 2010 - eerrghh... 2008 R2 :-)
Marc