We have some reports created in SSRS 2005, which uses Bonavista Microcharts plugin to show microcharts.
We would like to upgrade the reports to SSRS 2012 now, but I couldnot add the XLCubed dll to SSRS report toolbox(which worked perfect in SSRS 2008). It is throwing an error saying "There are no components in this dll that can be placed on toolbox".
I can't even go back to Sparkline in SSRS 2012, because that would require a complete restructure of Dataset. The dataset is designed for Bonavista plugin, the microchart data is combined with a pipe (eg, 500|200|300 etc).
Any change in DS means we will have to make changes in around 300 reports, do we have any 3rd party microchart tool available for SSRS 2012, that is similar to XLCubed microcharts/Bonavista microcharts?
You should take a look at: Nevron Chart for SSRS
Full disclosure: I'm in no way affiliated with Nevron
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I'm trying to find a way to get an SSRS report, when opened, export the results directly to a PDF file and have some control over the name of the file saved on the server. Ideally, without displaying anything to the user opening the web page the SSRS report is on.
The scenario is thus:
Working within an off the shelf web site content management system. I can 'load' an .RDL file into this system and have it display on a web page. This system supports SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012 or 2014 versions of .RDL only.
I have the SSRS report (created in VS 2015, with target version set to SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012 or 2014) working and ready to go. It is being used under the same system so I know the report runs/renders OK.
Primary Use case is to 'capture' customer data in the format of this report before the customer makes any changes so we have a complete record of what the data was before any changes were made. This report is meant to replace a paper document with a very specific format.
Server running SQL 2014 has Reporting Services installed. Never used it so don't know if it will help with this.
Long preamble to the fundamental question. Is it possible to make an SSRS report 'self export' as PDF and programatically set the filename of the PDF file?
Any and all suggestions/ideas are welcome.
I'm practicing to make a dynamic columns report following this guide.
In the article Dataset properties windows looks like
However, when I tried it myself. Mine was like
I guess I might miss some setting then I search such as "SSRS DataSet Properties", "SSRS DataSet Properties options", "SSRS DataSet Properties only General option" but couldn't find How to list all options like the article.
My Visual Studio is 2013 ultimate and SQL server version is 2014 enterprise.
Your report is not SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Service)
Make sure you create ssrs project like image below
I am currently working on TFS 2013 and would like to know how to generate custom reports.
Tried google to find out a tutorial but couldn't find anything great. If someone has then please let me know.
Whether SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Reporting Service will be ok for TFS 2013 to generate reports?
TFS has a few mechanisms for doing reporting:
Work Item Queries (WIQ) - Work Item Queries can be created and saved for reuse. Work Item Queries are easy to create, and can answer the majority of questions that users have.
Excel Reporting - Work Item Queries can be exported to Excel to provide more advanced capabilities around analyzing the data resulting from the Query. Various different views of the data along with charts/graphs can be created using standard Excel functionality. Creating Excel Reports requires some expertise in Excel, but the resulting file can be saved and the data can be automatically refreshed from TFS.
SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) - This is the most advanced Reporting option. SSRS reports require a developer to create, but it provides the flexibility to report and analyze any data stored in TFS in almost any way imaginable.
TFS Web Access (TWA) - TFS Web Access provides some basic charts/graphs that can be viewed in the browser (Burndown, Cumulative Flow, Velocity Chart, etc). In addition, web-based Charts/Graphs can be generated based on the results of Work Item Queries. This is less flexible than the Excel option, but also more user-friendly and usable by any TFS user.
The advanced option - SSRS Reports - are just your run-of-the-mill SSRS reports that use the TFS Data Warehouse and/or the TFS Cube as a data source. You can read a guide about developing custom SSRS reports for TFS here: http://vsarreportguide.codeplex.com/
I want to know if it possible to repoduce the idea of Excel 2010 sparklines in a SSRS 2005 Report. I want to show a report that has an indication of the price fluctuations over a 3 month period for a range of products. I could just give the figures over the 3 month period but it is very hard to quickly distinguish what is happening to the various products in a sea of numbers.
See this, which shows it's possible, and this, which although it doesn't mention sparklines explicitly, explains how to embed a chart per-row in a table.
You could try to embed a chart object per line. That's it.
Or programmatically get an Excel sheet from SSRS and enrich it in code.
I am using a third party Sparkline chart control that was originally written for SSRS 2005 - it's been updated for 2008 but I'm pretty sure it still supports SSRS 2005.
I've done a bit of research into embedding Sparklines into a reporting services report and this was what I choose as my solution. They have a nice fully featured evaluation version which is good for 40 days (I think).
SparkLines for Reporting Services
I am working on an ASP.NET (3/5) web application. In the application, we assemble lists of classes from a variety of data sources. I would like to create a report in SQL Server SSRS that renders a report from the contents of one of those lists, without pushing the list to the database (in fact, it would be a violation of a bunch of rules if we did that). Right now we are using SQL Server 2005 but we are considering a move to 2008. Is what I want to do possible and, if so, how do I do it?
Reporting services offer something called as DataSet extensions. You may use that to render the report from your custom data source. You do not need to load them back into database. However, certain editions of SQL like SQL Express reporting services does not support dataset extension.
You might want to use the ReportViewer control which ship with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008.
It can run in a "local mode", which doesn't require a Report Server backend. You simply drop it from the VS toolbox onto an ASPX form, then wire it up in code with any IEnumerable collection as its datasource, and then provide it with a report definition file for local mode (RDLC).
The RDLC file is basically the same as the original RDL (report definition language), but it omits a few things like the datasource, which is provided by your application. The ReportViewer control contains a smaller version of the report processing engine, so that at runtime, it "couples" the RDLC you provide with a data set or bindable collection, and it does the rest.
For more details on this control, check out the following site: www.gotreportviewer.com
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