I'm using Microsoft Reporting Services (MSRS) 2008. Currently I'm designing reports that can be rendered both as PDF and Exel, which works fine in general.
If I define a footer in the designer, I'll see it in PDF and do not see it on the Excel sheet.
Although when I print out the Excel file, the footer is there again (in the page preview also).
Is there any way to tell MSRS to hide/not include the footer if Excel is chosen as output format? I want to have it in PDF and I don't want it in Excel. Designing two reports would be a way to achieve that, but a most unconvenient one.
In sql server 208 R2 you can achieve this behavior using the RenderFormat Global Variable. I don't think this is possible in prior versions.
http://blog.datainspirations.com/2010/03/03/sql-server-2008-r2-reporting-services-as-you-like-it/
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Hi I have an excel template in .xslt format and we use the template for all of our reporting services. However, we have not used SSRS for reporting service. Is there a way we can use the excel template and load all our reporting data into the template instead of manually creating the report's header and footer, and the design every time we develop a report using SSRS?
I appreciate your support.
I don't believe you can use a .xslt file to create a template in SSRS but you could create a report template in SSRS which uses report parts to keep things consistent in certain areas of your reports e.g. headers/footers.
Unfortunately SSRS does not have great support for templates/style and the only other solutions I have seen is by pulling style values from a database and using expressions throughout your reports.
I have a report that gets pulled and exported through sharepoint. Today I made some changes to one of the reports deployed those changes. Now when I render the report in sharepoint everything looks correct. However when I export the report in CSV format the column names revert to the aliases from the sql query instead of what I put in the designer for them.
Has anyone experienced an issue like this?
Any help is appreciated thanks.
I have seen this issue in the past with XML export. This may help:
Select the column, then open the Properties panel (you can also hit F4 as a shortcut)
Change the DataElementName attribute
Try export to CSV again
You didn't specify which version of SSRS you are using. This is a screenshot in Visual Studio 2010 / SSRS 2012:
Working with Reporting Services 2008 r2.
So here's my issue:
We have 5 reports that need to be combined into an "All Reports" report, which was originally done using VB6.
I created a master report with 5 subreports, and of course, it doesn't work.
I need to get certain reports to render as landscape, and others as portrait. Also, I want to get the headers and footers from each of the subreports.
I know that SSRS doesn't support either of these, but is there a way to "pre-render" the subreports as PDF, and then combine them into one PDF via reporting services?
This cannot be done out of the box. The only way you're going to accomplish this is through custom code. There are tools out there that you can build/buy to merge your PDFs into a single document. I can't comment on which tool is the best approach, but I can tell you custom code is the only approach.
I need to create a report(rdl) in SQL reporting services 2008. In that I need to create in runtime. The report has chart. I will specify the type of chart, font, alignment and all those stuff in runtime.
Is there any option for using this in SSRS 2008.
An rdlc is just an xml file so you can manipulate it at runtime, it's not a trivial undertaking though. You can find the rdl spec at http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/5/7/6575f1c8-4607-48d2-941d-c69622e11c32/RDL_spec_08.pdf.
There's a downloadable example of creating an rdlc for a table and a matrix dynamically, as well as lots of other useful report viewer info at http://www.gotreportviewer.com/.
You can generate the RDL however you want, it is just an XML file. But you will only be able to run the report locally. To run on the server you would need to deploy the report first, as the server does not run the RDL files directly.
I suppose this is still possible, but it would be pretty slow, and the report would not appear in the report manager or anything before hand.
However, your probably making this problem more complicated than it needs to be. I have work on projects where we generated the RDL and deployed daily with a custom application, and it is almost always not worth it. There is usually a better way.
You can set almost all the parameters of the chart using expressions. The only thing that can't be set is the chart type, but there are ways to get around that as well. Like having all the chart types you need created on the page, but making all except the one you want visible.
Yes...
to do so, you will need to either have an existing rdl file to modify, or you need to completely generate it from code.
All the SSRS xml is stored in the database in a table called catalog. You'll have to use the GUID of that report to access it, or insert a new row creating a new report.
once you're done swapping out your report server xml, the report server will have a "new" report that you can then call via your web page, or via SSRS url parameters.
past that clean up the catalog table if you see the need to.
I'll be honest with you though, this is very far from best practice, best practice that I'm aware of would be to embed the data you need to display in your web page in the form of a widget.
How would I embed an ASP.NET server control on a SQL Server 2005 Reporting file (.rdl)?
I am using the design view to accomplish my task.
Last time I checked you can't. You're limited to code that generates images, like bar codes.
Unfortunately, you can't. SQL Reporting Services can generate reports in a variety of formats -- HTML, PDF, XLS, CSV, and so on. It has nothing to do with ASP.NET other than the fact that you can use the ReportViewer web control to emit a report rendered in HTML format.
Depending on what you're trying to accomplish, you might be able to use parameters to pass information into the report from the web page containing the report viewer.