im using CR version 13. With VS2010 and CR SP1 for VS2010.
I have a report with lots of subreports. They use XML schemas for data at design time and then uses runtime populated datasets. It works great on my development machine. But on other development machines or in deployment the report pops up a databaselogon promt asking for username etc.
Ive seen alot of people having similar problems, nobody have an answear. Let me make it clear, i dont use a database in any way shape or form.
Other reports works ok, only my new report do this.
I had some subreports i wanted to supress. I did this by simply not setting any datasource on them. For some reason CR on my development machine didnt pop up a dialog for datasource, so i assumed it worked.
What i do instead now, wich is proberbly also the better way. is to give the report a parameter value wich is used in the supress formulas of the sub reports.
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Does anyone know if it's possible to switch the data set which is used by a Mobile Report? As far as I can see, the only way of doing this would be to add the new dataset and then re-map everything, including filtering to the new one.
It seems a very inefficient way of doing things. In addition, if the original dataset is deleted, there is no way of getting back into the Mobile report!
Any advice appreciated.
In the Report Portal you can manage the settings of the Mobile Report just like you would with paginated reports. You can set the dataset that it's pointing to there without editing the report. As you might suspect, the field names should be the same or it won't know which ones to use.
To the best of my knowledge, I'm correctly importing my MS-SQL data source in the Control Panel (It says successful in green). I'm also pretty sure I'm importing the data correctly into the Windows 7 Publisher app since I can view the data in the DataView:
but when I go to the Layout View or Run Preview, I just get a blank chart:
It works if I use the default SimulatedTable but once I change the data source to my MS-SQL table, I can't get anything to display, no matter what display element I'm trying to use.
I've tried re-importing the data, using a different MS-SQL table, and re-naming the columns to match the SimulatedTable but it doesn't change the result. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Please try one thing, I am just guessing it might work.
Please select one of the Time Preset buttons and see if you see data in that(where there is blank) chart object.
If yes, then while setting up the time navigator object, select an option in drop down box labeled "Default Time Range Preset"
There are some hacks, please do let me know if run into some weirdness. It might not make sense if i try to explain unless you run into that situation.
Cheers,
I ended up giving up on the Windows 7 version of the application and running a virtual instance of Windows 8.1 instead so I could install the Datazen Publisher app for Windows 8.1. It's FAR less buggy.
Not perfect, though.
I have a set of SSRS reports developed in Visual Studio Data Tools that are used for several clients.
For one particular site, each report will work perfectly in 'Preview' mode in Visual Studio, however when I deploy them and attempt to run them in IE all of the parameters are disabled/greyed out. I also tried to put in a set of default parameters to see what would happen and when I click 'Run Report' I do not even get the 'Loading' image and the report is just blank.
I have checked the IE security settings and have reset them, and also added the report web page location in to trusted sites which unfortunately hasn't made a difference. One thing I have also noticed is that when I try to view Developer Tools in IE, it also just shows a blank white screen.
I've searched online and found a couple of old posts on various websites with a similar issue but none that were ever resolved, and now I am not sure how to proceed.
More info that might be useful:
The client are using IE 11, it is a terminal server style setup with around 8 or 9 users logged on.
The report I am testing with has 2 date parameters first, and two multi-valued parameters (I have tried other reports but with the same issue)
The client recently moved servers and the reports worked fine before, although it was a fresh install of the report so I don't believe there would be any old settings that could be causing it?
Any help greatly appreciated :)
In SSRS, report parameters can be inactive when the report is generated from a snapshot. Removing this option is as follows:
Navigate to the report in SSRS
"Manage" the report from the drop down.
Select "Processing Options" from the left menu
Is "Render this report from a report snapshot" selected? If so, switch
to "Always run this report with the most recent data" option.
Run the report to determine if parameters are now active.
If this fixes your issue, you may need to switch from the snapshot option to the Scheduled Cache option available under the left menu link "Cache Refresh Options"
For one particular site, each report will work perfectly in 'Preview' mode in Visual Studio, however when I deploy them and attempt to run them in IE all of the parameters are disabled/greyed out.
If that is the case, and a previous version of the report was already on the SSRS report server, what you can do is delete the report, and upload it again. There is some kind of cache for the parameters, that causes that if you modify the order of them, some get disabled, and the only way I have found to get rid of it is to delete the old report from the server.
For me this worked:
Open IE
Go to Settings->Compatibility View Settings
Add the URL of your report server.
You could be experiencing an old bug which was reported a long time ago in a connect item:
SSRS Weird Parameters Order Bug (parameter grayed out)
The official Microsoft answer on this subject is:
Currently this behavior is per design. However we will consider this
behavior improvement in a future release of reporting services The
only workaround at this point is to change the order of the
parameters.
Are the parameters on the RDL file set to visible, like below:
Just going to add this as an answer, because it solved the issue for me;
Delete the report on the server & deploy again.
What happens is that you completely remove the report and thus also its parameters. When you deploy a report its parameters their default values do not get overwritten in case it didn't have a default the first time you deployed.
I'm working on a report in SSRS 2005 that is a questionnaire with yes/no answers. Trying to get a checkbox on the report. Have tried using windings for the font and an iif statement to set the character, but that doesn't come out correctly when exporting to PDF. I'm using local reports, not from a report server.
The easiest/simplest solution is just to use an embedded image with a expression which sets the source of the image to the checked or not checked version. This will work across export types (except text/csv).
I am assuming however you want this to be non-interactive.
I'm about to venture down this path, as well (clients that require printed forms look exactly as they always have, basically). Did you try this suggestion?
Keith, aside from the image solution, what are the options?
I am trying to produce SSRS reports to integrate with a MOSS Dashboard. Reporting Services 2005 only seems to be able to render .xls out of the box. Does SSRS 2008 have the ability to render in xlsx format?
To the best of my experience, exporting to excel2007 is not built into SSRS2008, you need to get an external component for that. Currently looking into what is available on the market, i'll get back to you with what i find.
Edit:
Ok had a look at both aspose.cells and OfficeWriter by SoftArtisans. Both claim to offer .xlsx-exporting capabilities for SSRS, but in both cases this is a partial truth at best.
Both work by having you recreate your report in Excel using their respective add-ons, and then pasting their own markup into your RDL-file. This also has the effect that if you are making an excel-exportable report in either tool, you won't be able to view or export it in anything else from SSRS. Both have the ability to open an existing report and access their datasets from there, which is a major advantage over trying to get MSQuery to work for you.
Aspose suffers from various issues with permissions on the server, where you need to grant it full trust (not everyone would want that). I also had a major hassle getting it installed properly.
OfficeWriter has some issues with shared datasources, where you generally have to go in and set them manually after you've published your report. It also seems to choke on VS2008 RDLs, if you want to use a dataset from a VS2008 report, you have to make a new report in VS2005 with your dataset, and use that as a basis for your excel-built report.
Personally I don't care much for either. But overall Officewriter does seem like it comes out ahead. Next stop is figuring out if it has built-in support for matrices, or that is something we would have to program in VB to get.
According to Exporting to Microsoft Excel(msdn)
The Excel rendering extension renders a report that is compatible with Microsoft Excel 97 and later.
This seems to suggest the old format.