Exporting reports to PDF

Does anybody know how to export reports to PDF so that it fit to page?

Thanks,

Addin

hii

do you want the visual studio report what ever you developed to in sql server 2005 to be exported into pdf format ?

then just see the preview of your report. then in that same page one botton is there just before to the fontsize called the export bottom. just see the drop down list to what you wanted to export your report ,you can choose there. you can see there that you can export your report to tiff format,web archive format,pdf format and excel format also.

hope you have asked this

then it will work fine for you

thanks and regards

mahasweta

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hii

you can do it on the same page of the rivew of the ssrs in visual studio.there is one botton, just before the font size ,caled export .just check there .you can export to any format you want.those are tiff format,webarchiev format,pdf and excel format

thanks and regards

mahasweta

|||Hi,
I am not clear about your question?
1)whether you want the data which is running in to the second page has to be fit in to a single page.
2)Do you have blank in second page without any data and you want to reduce no of pages to 1.
If you make this point clear.,then i can help you.|||Hi,

Let's say, i have this Transfer Notice report which has 10 columns.

When i export this report to PDF, i cant see all the 10 columns on page 1. It was split into 2 page.

Page 1 contains 1st - 7th columns, and..
Page 2 contains 8th - 10th columns.

I wanted to see the whole table in one page only. Is there any option so that i could "fit to page" the report?

Thanks for the answers!
|||

i think i have the exact same problem i think.

lets say i make a reporting thats A3 size, when i export to PDF the stupid thing renders it as A4 and mashes it over to another page.

|||Hi,
I got your problem .First check which layout you are using.whether its Landscape or Portrait.
Then your Components (such as List,matrix or Table) + margins(Left,Top,Right,Bottom) should be equal to or less than Page width and height.If the components extends the desired Page width and height then the data will be shifted to next page.
In your case ,Please check your page width.
Hope it was useful to you.

Cheers,
Shri|||Hi,

on the preview, I could set the layout to landscape. But when I export it to PDF, the result's still the same.

I've already check the margins, it's all okay.

Is there anyway to set the layout to landscape as default?

Thanks!
|||

I HAVE THE ANSWER!!!

example, my report needs to be A2 size.

go report>report properties>layout

set your page width and margins to the size you need (mine is 42cm,59.4cm)

this is the only thing that forces pdf rendering to go beyond the standard A4 size.

|||Great!

Thanks!

Exporting reports to excel - chart quality

Hello there,
I got following problem, I have some charts in my report and I need to
export reports to excel, all charts are being converted into images,
which is fine, but the quality of this conversion is not good and for
example axis labels are barely readable, while for example exporting
to pdf produces a good quality chart. So my question: is there any way
to increase quality of output image during conversion charts to
excel ?On Aug 16, 5:10 am, bachu...@.op.pl wrote:
> Hello there,
> I got following problem, I have some charts in my report and I need to
> export reports to excel, all charts are being converted into images,
> which is fine, but the quality of this conversion is not good and for
> example axis labels are barely readable, while for example exporting
> to pdf produces a good quality chart. So my question: is there any way
> to increase quality of output image during conversion charts to
> excel ?
I agree w/you in terms of the chart quality in PDF versus Excel. The
only thing that I can think of is to increase the axis label size/
font. Another alternative is to create a separate report for each
export option and set the font according to what best works for the
export and then tie them both to export buttons in a custom ASP.NET
application and swap the 2 report based on the export option selected.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. Software Consultant|||Thanks for reply. However I cant do what you suggest, because in my
solution excel file requires further editing by user before printing,
which is ofc impossible in pdf, besides increasing font size not
necessarily improve quality. And what is very surprising same font,
same size but different type of chart generate different quality
image. Labels of axis in column chart look terrible while labels for
pie chart looks quite good.
There are options to change default dpi for exporting using
ImageRenderer, I was rather hoping there is a way to change
configuration of ExcelRenderer or eventually some easy way to create
overridden version and changing some default properties :(
Regards
Adam
On 17 Aug, 03:53, EMartinez <emartinez...@.gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 16, 5:10 am, bachu...@.op.pl wrote:
> > Hello there,
> > I got following problem, I have some charts in my report and I need to
> > export reports to excel, all charts are being converted into images,
> > which is fine, but the quality of this conversion is not good and for
> > example axis labels are barely readable, while for example exporting
> > to pdf produces a good quality chart. So my question: is there any way
> > to increase quality of output image during conversion charts to
> > excel ?
> I agree w/you in terms of the chart quality in PDF versus Excel. The
> only thing that I can think of is to increase the axis label size/
> font. Another alternative is to create a separate report for each
> export option and set the font according to what best works for the
> export and then tie them both to export buttons in a custom ASP.NET
> application and swap the 2 report based on the export option selected.
> Hope this helps.
> Regards,
> Enrique Martinez
> Sr. Software Consultant

Exporting reports to Excel

Hi everybody:
I created a report and I exported it to Excel.
My report has a chart that is set to "no visible", exporting it to PDF I
have no problems, but exporting it to MSExcel, I can see the chart!!!!
Is this a bug? Is there any workaround to allow me to export to both PDF and
Excel?
Best regards
ErnestoDo you have conditional visibility on the chart?
--
Brian Welcker
Group Program Manager
SQL Server Reporting Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Ernesto Bascón" <ebascon@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everybody:
> I created a report and I exported it to Excel.
> My report has a chart that is set to "no visible", exporting it to PDF I
> have no problems, but exporting it to MSExcel, I can see the chart!!!!
> Is this a bug? Is there any workaround to allow me to export to both PDF
> and
> Excel?
> Best regards
>
> Ernesto
>|||Yes, I have some like
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=IIF(fields!Name="Name", true, false)
"Brian Welcker [MSFT]" <bwelcker@.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Do you have conditional visibility on the chart?
> --
> Brian Welcker
> Group Program Manager
> SQL Server Reporting Services
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> "Ernesto Bascón" <ebascon@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eDi8KwtkEHA.3720@.TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Hi everybody:
> >
> > I created a report and I exported it to Excel.
> >
> > My report has a chart that is set to "no visible", exporting it to PDF I
> > have no problems, but exporting it to MSExcel, I can see the chart!!!!
> >
> > Is this a bug? Is there any workaround to allow me to export to both PDF
> > and
> > Excel?
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> >
> > Ernesto
> >
> >
>|||Are you running SP1? I think there was a fix around conditional visibility
in Excel.
--
Brian Welcker
Group Program Manager
SQL Server Reporting Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Ernesto Bascón" <ebascon@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, I have some like
> Hidden
> =IIF(fields!Name="Name", true, false)
>
> "Brian Welcker [MSFT]" <bwelcker@.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ufXtiD7kEHA.3536@.TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Do you have conditional visibility on the chart?
>> --
>> Brian Welcker
>> Group Program Manager
>> SQL Server Reporting Services
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>> "Ernesto Bascón" <ebascon@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:eDi8KwtkEHA.3720@.TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> > Hi everybody:
>> >
>> > I created a report and I exported it to Excel.
>> >
>> > My report has a chart that is set to "no visible", exporting it to PDF
>> > I
>> > have no problems, but exporting it to MSExcel, I can see the chart!!!!
>> >
>> > Is this a bug? Is there any workaround to allow me to export to both
>> > PDF
>> > and
>> > Excel?
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> >
>> >
>> > Ernesto
>> >
>> >
>>
>

exporting reports times out or freezes pc

i am trying to export a somewhat large report to excel
it is 25,000 rows of data
when running it from the report server website i get "Server Application Unavailable"
but all other smaller reports work fine
i tried changing timeout values everywhere, in config files, connection strings etc...
when i run it from visual studio it eats up over 300mb and never saves and freezes my computer
what gives?Good Evening!
I know when exporting to Excel it "burps" at anything > 65.535 rows - but I do not know the column limitation!
I know I am not any help here - but
"Server Application Unavailable" - what do you mean - you go tohttp://localhost/reports and then execute directly from MS RS .
or
Is there a document map in the MS RS report?
or
"Server Application Unavailable" seems a little strange to me - so
You select the MS RS report to execute - it executes - you select export <excel> the dialor box comes up to save, you say ok and define where you want to save and then it just hangs?
??
Send some info back - I am curious
best regards,





|||it is about 25,000 rows
there is no document map
your last statement is precise, it executes, is displayed in the web browser, then when i export it it waits a little bit and then says the error message i stated before
smaller reports work with no problem|||

I like these weird problems!

Have you installed the service packs for MS RS?

There are two(2) SP1, and SP2..

Another question, when exporting - are you exporting from the server to another PC in the network or just exporting from the server to an excel file on the server?

|||i don't know how weird the problem is, i think reporting services just can't handle this
also when i try to export the report in visual studio it just eats up tons of memory and freezes the machine
i have all the latest service packs
i am exporting the file to save on my hard drive, i am running RS from my laptop and sql server from a real server|||Hi,
Iam facing the same problem when I try to export to PDF format the same thing happens it freezes the system.
the senario here is Reporting server is installed on a server machine & Iam accessing the reports from windows XP client. MSRS 2000 with service pack 2 is intalled on the server.
Another imp issue is Iam unable to print. my report has 4,250 pages with approximately 50 - 55 records in a page Iam trying to print its not printing I even tried to print only page 1-1 (single page) . it shows the "Printing Now..." dialog but after 5 mins it fails.
I've tried the same thing, same environment at different place where I was having 2500 pages printing was working fine. can anybody tell me what is the solution for this.
Regards

Adonis

exporting reports into EXCEL format

Hi,

My organization is currently migrating from reporting services 2000 to reporting services 2005. We are having an issue with exporting reports into EXCEL format. Basically we have a table with five grouping hierarchy. The parent groupings toggle the visibility of the corresponding sub groupings. It works as expected when deployed to the report server, however when exported into Excel it expands to level 4 even though level 3 was not actually exploded.
Note that the same report exports correctly to Excel in the previous version of Reporting Services but in the 2005 version it skips one level of grouping.

Is this a bug in reporting services 2005? I saw some other people posting similar issues.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,
Radu

Hello,

In RS2000, excel renderer didn't include toggled items if we couldn't generate the outline and they current state was collapsed.

We changed this behavior in RS2005 based on customer input - the toggled items will be included in excel output regardless of thery collapse/expand state. Every time is possible we will generate the outline accordinglly.

I suspect you don't have an excel outline for level 4. Is this correct?

Thank you,

Nico

|||

Hi Nico,

Thanks a lot for your timely response!

We actually get an Excel outline for level 4. However, we miss level 3 information completely after the export to Excel. Our current process creates the report exploded up to level 3. Some users need to export it to Excel at exactly the same level of detail (and they do not need the data at the more detailed levels).

Also, the export to Excel takes much longer (and creates a much bigger file) in the new version (2005), probably because of exporting to the most detailed level. It also explodes to level 4 instead of level 3.

Could this be caused by the fact that the RDL file was originally created in RS2000 and subsequently migrated to RS2005? I still have the migration logs and got no errors or warnings there. I can provide the RDL file if necessary.

Is there a way to control what levels are exported to Excel and how they get exploded there? In this particular case we don't even need to export data for the most detailed levels (from level 4 and up).

Thanks in advance,

Radu

|||

Hi Radu,

In RS2005 all the levels will be included in the excel output and it is a behavior change from RS2000. You cannot control individual levels.

Can you send us the rdl, please? I would like to investigate the missing information (for level 3) part.

Thanks,

Nico

|||

Hi Nico,

Thanks for the clarification! Very good to know!

Nevertheless, it would have been nice to have the ability to select the depth (up to which level of grouping) for the export to Excel.

I would gladly send the RDL file but please advise me how to proceed: can I simply embed the code in my message (the RDL file is about 150 kB) or is there a way to attach the file?

Regards,

Radu

sql

Exporting Reports creates a blank window

I have created a few reports and linked them to a URL on a web page. (sample link is : http://servername/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?%2fMy_Reports%2fBacklog+Report&rs:Command=Render )

When the user clicks on the link above it renders correctly but when the user tries to export the report to any format on the list, it launches another window with the following URL : http://servername/ReportServer/Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd?ExecutionID=czq4c355dmsxdy55dif1nm55&ControlID=ad74d68e-2a9c-430f-8655-dd0e6c46f831&Culture=1033&UICulture=9&ReportStack=1&OpType=Export&FileName=Backlog+Report&ContentDisposition=OnlyHtmlInline&Format=EXCEL

which then prompts the user to Open or Save the report.

How do I stop this window from opening ? or how can I make it close automatically ?

Please advise.

I know if I can change the ContentDisposition somehow to AlwaysInline then this extra window will not show during the export but it keeps defaulting to OnlyHTMLInline for ContentDisposition.

Thanks in advance.

AL

Change ContentDispostion = AlwaysInline.|||

I had the same issue, which results from an IE hotfix that is applied to all the workstations at my work site. To get around this issue, I created a WEB project in Visual Studio 2005 and added in the ReportViewer web control. There is where you can overwrite the default setting for ExportContentDisposition. I changed to "AlwaysInline" to get around the problem.

Exporting Reports creates a blank window

I have created a few reports and linked them to a URL on a web page. (sample link is : http://servername/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?%2fMy_Reports%2fBacklog+Report&rs:Command=Render )

When the user clicks on the link above it renders correctly but when the user tries to export the report to any format on the list, it launches another window with the following URL : http://servername/ReportServer/Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd?ExecutionID=czq4c355dmsxdy55dif1nm55&ControlID=ad74d68e-2a9c-430f-8655-dd0e6c46f831&Culture=1033&UICulture=9&ReportStack=1&OpType=Export&FileName=Backlog+Report&ContentDisposition=OnlyHtmlInline&Format=EXCEL

which then prompts the user to Open or Save the report.

How do I stop this window from opening ? or how can I make it close automatically ?

Please advise.

I know if I can change the ContentDisposition somehow to AlwaysInline then this extra window will not show during the export but it keeps defaulting to OnlyHTMLInline for ContentDisposition.

Thanks in advance.

AL

Change ContentDispostion = AlwaysInline.|||

I had the same issue, which results from an IE hotfix that is applied to all the workstations at my work site. To get around this issue, I created a WEB project in Visual Studio 2005 and added in the ReportViewer web control. There is where you can overwrite the default setting for ExportContentDisposition. I changed to "AlwaysInline" to get around the problem.

Exporting Reports creates a blank window

I have created a few reports and linked them to a URL on a web page. (sample link is : http://servername/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?%2fMy_Reports%2fBacklog+Report&rs:Command=Render )

When the user clicks on the link above it renders correctly but when the user tries to export the report to any format on the list, it launches another window with the following URL : http://servername/ReportServer/Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd?ExecutionID=czq4c355dmsxdy55dif1nm55&ControlID=ad74d68e-2a9c-430f-8655-dd0e6c46f831&Culture=1033&UICulture=9&ReportStack=1&OpType=Export&FileName=Backlog+Report&ContentDisposition=OnlyHtmlInline&Format=EXCEL

which then prompts the user to Open or Save the report.

How do I stop this window from opening ? or how can I make it close automatically ?

Please advise.

I know if I can change the ContentDisposition somehow to AlwaysInline then this extra window will not show during the export but it keeps defaulting to OnlyHTMLInline for ContentDisposition.

Thanks in advance.

AL

Change ContentDispostion = AlwaysInline.|||

I had the same issue, which results from an IE hotfix that is applied to all the workstations at my work site. To get around this issue, I created a WEB project in Visual Studio 2005 and added in the ReportViewer web control. There is where you can overwrite the default setting for ExportContentDisposition. I changed to "AlwaysInline" to get around the problem.

Exporting reports

Is there any way to turn off (or hide) the export function when
viewing a report though report manager. There are certain reports
that we would only like people to view through report manager, we do
not want them to be able to export into PDF, Excel, etc..
Thanks,Steve,
You should be able to do this by creating a custom stylesheet for these
reports. By default, these are located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\ReportServer\styles. Create a copy of
htmlviewer.css, (i.e. noexport.css), and change the .ToolbarExport display
from "inline" to "none. Then, you can use the rc:stylesheetcommand=noexport
parameter to tell your webbrowser to display the viewer with that particular
stylesheet. for instance, you would use render the report like this:
http://myserver/reportserver/?/MyReport&rc:stylesheet=noexport&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=HTML4.0
"Steve" <steven.cooper@.infocision.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any way to turn off (or hide) the export function when
> viewing a report though report manager. There are certain reports
> that we would only like people to view through report manager, we do
> not want them to be able to export into PDF, Excel, etc..
> Thanks,|||"Joe Krill" <jmk@.endowmentcapital.com> wrote in message news:<OQeONWNpEHA.3424@.TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> Steve,
> You should be able to do this by creating a custom stylesheet for these
> reports. By default, these are located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
> Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\ReportServer\styles. Create a copy of
> htmlviewer.css, (i.e. noexport.css), and change the .ToolbarExport display
> from "inline" to "none. Then, you can use the rc:stylesheetcommand=noexport
> parameter to tell your webbrowser to display the viewer with that particular
> stylesheet. for instance, you would use render the report like this:
> http://myserver/reportserver/?/MyReport&rc:stylesheet=noexport&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=HTML4.0
>
> "Steve" <steven.cooper@.infocision.com> wrote in message
> news:aa4429ef.0409230514.7ec55869@.posting.google.com...
> > Is there any way to turn off (or hide) the export function when
> > viewing a report though report manager. There are certain reports
> > that we would only like people to view through report manager, we do
> > not want them to be able to export into PDF, Excel, etc..
> >
> > Thanks,
Thanks. I don't think I was veru clear. What I meant, is there any
way in Report Manager to hide the export dropdown box, or gray it out.
They will have access to report manager, but I want to remove the
options from report manager. Preferrable hide them off the UI.

Exporting Reports

Hi,

I'm exporting my report to a Text file.

Main report works fine. While exporting sub reports, all the records are exporting. The problem is sub report data starts from the second position. i.e it leaves the first position as blank. I had arragned my fields correctly. Then why am I getting this blank space.

And Is there any way to export only the sub report?

ThanksResolved.

Anyway, thank u guys.|||Could u explain me how did u solve it? ;)

Rohini|||Hi,

Actually it's not a problem of Sub reports. It's a know issue. Downloaded and installed a Hot Fix from the CrystalDecisions website.

It's working now.

But the problem is, while trying to export thru asp code it again leaves a blank space.

If any of you experienced the same, please help me

Thankssql

Exporting Reports

I need some urgent advice. I used Crystal Reports 4.6 (distributed with Visual Studio 6) and designed a report containing saved data. By default the report prints to a window (Crystal Report Preview Window) from where the users can select to print the report to their printers. I need to remove the export and mail options from the Preview Window.
I understand that the later, more recent versions, of Crystal Reports allows for the export and mail buttons to be hidden, what about the version I have? Due to the fact that Crystal Reports 4.6 apparently does not facilitate for this function I considered moving the report to MS Data Report, but it contains export abilities as well. I am more than prepared to use either of the 2 as long as I know that the information contained within the report cannot be tampered with by way of file exports.
Can anybody please help me with this problem?I don't know anything about version 4.6, but maybe there's a way that you can trap the Export button being pushed and warn the user, then exit the function before the report is exported?|||I tried trapping it from within VB, but to no avail.

Exporting Report Data to Case Management System

I work for a large government organisation and I have built several reports
that enable clients to drill down to case level which they love. The problem
is that now they all want to be able to "push a button" and send the cases to
a case management system. I know how to write the code to send the cases to
the case management system tables but I don't know how to enable the client
to be able to trigger it from the report interface. Any assistance would be
much appreciated!Well this depends on how you want to do it... right now I assume they view
the reports from a browser right? If so, you may want to look into
customizing a front end to view the reports - or you can simply create a
smart client where you have a button on a form and the reports are listed
that can be exported to the case management system.
The last option is to create a delivery extension, which I think would be
the best thing to do, you select the report, and the new output to render to
if you will. :)
=-Chris
"St Matthew" <StMatthew@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1BCF18A3-5568-41F7-B69B-A948828A0625@.microsoft.com...
>I work for a large government organisation and I have built several reports
> that enable clients to drill down to case level which they love. The
> problem
> is that now they all want to be able to "push a button" and send the cases
> to
> a case management system. I know how to write the code to send the cases
> to
> the case management system tables but I don't know how to enable the
> client
> to be able to trigger it from the report interface. Any assistance would
> be
> much appreciated!

Exporting Problem in crystal reports

Hi all

I am dispalying the data in crystal reports using selection formula from table.I am using Asp.net 1.1 version.Data is coming properly according to the selection criteria. But while exporting to any format like (pdf,excel,word) irrespective of the selection formulae all the data from the table is exporting.
Can any one help me.

Regrds
Syamreply

Exporting pdf from RS to a Win Form

I'm using Reporting Services 2005 and .Net framework 2.0 and want to display
reports from RS in my Windows form. My questions are:
1) I've got the pdf from the Render-method in the RS Web Service, and tried
to display the pdf in a WebBrowser in my Windows Form using the
WebBrowser.DocumentStream property. But I don't know how set the content type
to application/pdf. I only get the binary displayed in the browser.
Suggestions?
2) If I access, from the same browser as in 1), a pdf through an URL, it
works fine. So, is if possible to retreive a report as a pdf through an URL
reference directly?
3) I could try to display the pdf some kind of other pdf container in my
winform. Does anyone know some nice tools to do this?
Regards,
Tomsi2) According to Books online for SQL Server CTP April 2005, it should be
possible to specify rs:Format=PDF as a parameter in the URL. But this doesn't
help me. It just seems to ignore the parameter... What could be wrong? Or
just simply doesn't the 2005 version support URL access directly?
"Tomsi" wrote:
> I'm using Reporting Services 2005 and .Net framework 2.0 and want to display
> reports from RS in my Windows form. My questions are:
> 1) I've got the pdf from the Render-method in the RS Web Service, and tried
> to display the pdf in a WebBrowser in my Windows Form using the
> WebBrowser.DocumentStream property. But I don't know how set the content type
> to application/pdf. I only get the binary displayed in the browser.
> Suggestions?
> 2) If I access, from the same browser as in 1), a pdf through an URL, it
> works fine. So, is if possible to retreive a report as a pdf through an URL
> reference directly?
> 3) I could try to display the pdf some kind of other pdf container in my
> winform. Does anyone know some nice tools to do this?
> Regards,
> Tomsi|||I ran into this problem as well. I need to display pdf documents
within windows forms and I am trying to utilize the webbrowser control
but can't seem to set the contenttype to 'application/pdf'. Did you
ever find a solution?
Tomsi wrote:
> I'm using Reporting Services 2005 and .Net framework 2.0 and want to display
> reports from RS in my Windows form. My questions are:
> 1) I've got the pdf from the Render-method in the RS Web Service, and tried
> to display the pdf in a WebBrowser in my Windows Form using the
> WebBrowser.DocumentStream property. But I don't know how set the content type
> to application/pdf. I only get the binary displayed in the browser.
> Suggestions?
> 2) If I access, from the same browser as in 1), a pdf through an URL, it
> works fine. So, is if possible to retreive a report as a pdf through an URL
> reference directly?
> 3) I could try to display the pdf some kind of other pdf container in my
> winform. Does anyone know some nice tools to do this?
> Regards,
> Tomsi|||1) As a temporary solution I save the pdf-stream to a file, and access the
file with the WebBrowser.Url-property:
--
string fileName = Path.GetTempFileName() + ".pdf";
FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create);
fs.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
fs.Close();
_browserReport.Url = new Uri(fileName);
--
But I would like to know how to do this without saving to disk.
2) As far as I can read the SQL Server 2005 documentation, it should work to
get a pdf through URL access from Reporting Services by setting the attribute
"Format=PDF" in the URL. But I can't get it to work in the CTP april
2005-version.
3) Haven't tried this further out. I think Adobe sells some kind of SDK
which might help.
So my answer is that I'm still looking for a good solution.
Tomsi
"rich.beaver@.gmail.com" wrote:
> I ran into this problem as well. I need to display pdf documents
> within windows forms and I am trying to utilize the webbrowser control
> but can't seem to set the contenttype to 'application/pdf'. Did you
> ever find a solution?
> Tomsi wrote:
> > I'm using Reporting Services 2005 and .Net framework 2.0 and want to display
> > reports from RS in my Windows form. My questions are:
> >
> > 1) I've got the pdf from the Render-method in the RS Web Service, and tried
> > to display the pdf in a WebBrowser in my Windows Form using the
> > WebBrowser.DocumentStream property. But I don't know how set the content type
> > to application/pdf. I only get the binary displayed in the browser.
> > Suggestions?
> >
> > 2) If I access, from the same browser as in 1), a pdf through an URL, it
> > works fine. So, is if possible to retreive a report as a pdf through an URL
> > reference directly?
> >
> > 3) I could try to display the pdf some kind of other pdf container in my
> > winform. Does anyone know some nice tools to do this?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tomsi
>sql

Exporting of Large Reports (Report Manager)

How can I increase the performance when attempting to export large reports to
an MS Excel or PDF file?
The report currently has an average of 29,995 records and is approximately
19,398,584 bytes in size. (650+ pages)
However, when rendering the report, the report takes only 30+ seconds.
http://reportserv/Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath=%
2fMember_Verification%2fReports%2fIPC_Members_Verification
Thank you in advance for your support.If it takes 30 seconds to html then it will take as much as 10 times longer
to Excel or PDF. For Excel there is a work around.
Depending on how you design your reports you can do the following to export
to Excel. Or, what I do sometimes is make a copy of the report and clean it
up for data export and then hide it in list view. If you export from Report
Manager (RS 2000) it puts CSV data in unicode which Excel puts all in one
column. If you export in ASCII then Excel does just as you want. To prevent
a problem with cells (Excel will object to sorting the data) you need to
remove any textboxes you have (for instance with a title, showing the
parameters run etc) and instead add additional header rows, merge the cells
and put your text in there instead. I add a link at the top of the report
that says Export Data. With RS 2005 you can be able to configure it to use
ASCII instead of Unicode when exporting to CSV.
So, in RS 2000 I add a link at the top of the page and then use Jump to URL.
Here is an example of a Jump to URL link I use. This causes Excel to come up
with the data in a separate window:
="javascript:void(window.open('" & Globals!ReportServerUrl &
"?/SomeFolder/SomeReport&ParamName=" & Parameters!ParamName.Value &
"&rs:Format=CSV&rc:Encoding=ASCII','_blank'))"
If you don't want to have it appear in a new window then do this in jump to
URL:
=Globals!ReportServerUrl & "?/SomeFolder/SomeReport&ParamName=" &
Parameters!ParamName.Value & "&rs:Format=CSV&rc:Encoding=ASCII"
Very nice and very fast. CSV ASCII will be just as fast as HTML.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Terry" <Terry@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5429586F-A50A-43F9-B913-E7E7B98A7F15@.microsoft.com...
> How can I increase the performance when attempting to export large reports
> to
> an MS Excel or PDF file?
> The report currently has an average of 29,995 records and is approximately
> 19,398,584 bytes in size. (650+ pages)
> However, when rendering the report, the report takes only 30+ seconds.
> http://reportserv/Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath=%
> 2fMember_Verification%2fReports%2fIPC_Members_Verification
> Thank you in advance for your support.|||The solution worked! Thank you very much.
However, is there a way of scheduling the report using the same solution?
"Bruce L-C [MVP]" wrote:
> If it takes 30 seconds to html then it will take as much as 10 times longer
> to Excel or PDF. For Excel there is a work around.
> Depending on how you design your reports you can do the following to export
> to Excel. Or, what I do sometimes is make a copy of the report and clean it
> up for data export and then hide it in list view. If you export from Report
> Manager (RS 2000) it puts CSV data in unicode which Excel puts all in one
> column. If you export in ASCII then Excel does just as you want. To prevent
> a problem with cells (Excel will object to sorting the data) you need to
> remove any textboxes you have (for instance with a title, showing the
> parameters run etc) and instead add additional header rows, merge the cells
> and put your text in there instead. I add a link at the top of the report
> that says Export Data. With RS 2005 you can be able to configure it to use
> ASCII instead of Unicode when exporting to CSV.
> So, in RS 2000 I add a link at the top of the page and then use Jump to URL.
> Here is an example of a Jump to URL link I use. This causes Excel to come up
> with the data in a separate window:
>
> ="javascript:void(window.open('" & Globals!ReportServerUrl &
> "?/SomeFolder/SomeReport&ParamName=" & Parameters!ParamName.Value &
> "&rs:Format=CSV&rc:Encoding=ASCII','_blank'))"
> If you don't want to have it appear in a new window then do this in jump to
> URL:
> =Globals!ReportServerUrl & "?/SomeFolder/SomeReport&ParamName=" &
> Parameters!ParamName.Value & "&rs:Format=CSV&rc:Encoding=ASCII"
>
> Very nice and very fast. CSV ASCII will be just as fast as HTML.
>
> --
> Bruce Loehle-Conger
> MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
>
> "Terry" <Terry@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5429586F-A50A-43F9-B913-E7E7B98A7F15@.microsoft.com...
> > How can I increase the performance when attempting to export large reports
> > to
> > an MS Excel or PDF file?
> >
> > The report currently has an average of 29,995 records and is approximately
> > 19,398,584 bytes in size. (650+ pages)
> >
> > However, when rendering the report, the report takes only 30+ seconds.
> >
> > http://reportserv/Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath=%
> > 2fMember_Verification%2fReports%2fIPC_Members_Verification
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your support.
>
>|||It looks to me like you can't from the report manager. I don't know if you
can use web services (my guess is that you can). In RS 2005 you can
configure RS to automatically use CSV ASCII (which is what I have done).
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Terry" <Terry@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:68EB7C88-F34A-4254-B963-A0F5F3FDE734@.microsoft.com...
> The solution worked! Thank you very much.
> However, is there a way of scheduling the report using the same solution?
>
> "Bruce L-C [MVP]" wrote:
>> If it takes 30 seconds to html then it will take as much as 10 times
>> longer
>> to Excel or PDF. For Excel there is a work around.
>> Depending on how you design your reports you can do the following to
>> export
>> to Excel. Or, what I do sometimes is make a copy of the report and clean
>> it
>> up for data export and then hide it in list view. If you export from
>> Report
>> Manager (RS 2000) it puts CSV data in unicode which Excel puts all in one
>> column. If you export in ASCII then Excel does just as you want. To
>> prevent
>> a problem with cells (Excel will object to sorting the data) you need to
>> remove any textboxes you have (for instance with a title, showing the
>> parameters run etc) and instead add additional header rows, merge the
>> cells
>> and put your text in there instead. I add a link at the top of the report
>> that says Export Data. With RS 2005 you can be able to configure it to
>> use
>> ASCII instead of Unicode when exporting to CSV.
>> So, in RS 2000 I add a link at the top of the page and then use Jump to
>> URL.
>> Here is an example of a Jump to URL link I use. This causes Excel to come
>> up
>> with the data in a separate window:
>>
>> ="javascript:void(window.open('" & Globals!ReportServerUrl &
>> "?/SomeFolder/SomeReport&ParamName=" & Parameters!ParamName.Value &
>> "&rs:Format=CSV&rc:Encoding=ASCII','_blank'))"
>> If you don't want to have it appear in a new window then do this in jump
>> to
>> URL:
>> =Globals!ReportServerUrl & "?/SomeFolder/SomeReport&ParamName=" &
>> Parameters!ParamName.Value & "&rs:Format=CSV&rc:Encoding=ASCII"
>>
>> Very nice and very fast. CSV ASCII will be just as fast as HTML.
>>
>> --
>> Bruce Loehle-Conger
>> MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
>>
>> "Terry" <Terry@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5429586F-A50A-43F9-B913-E7E7B98A7F15@.microsoft.com...
>> > How can I increase the performance when attempting to export large
>> > reports
>> > to
>> > an MS Excel or PDF file?
>> >
>> > The report currently has an average of 29,995 records and is
>> > approximately
>> > 19,398,584 bytes in size. (650+ pages)
>> >
>> > However, when rendering the report, the report takes only 30+ seconds.
>> >
>> > http://reportserv/Reports/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath=%
>> > 2fMember_Verification%2fReports%2fIPC_Members_Verification
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance for your support.
>>

Exporting multiple Reports to one file... URGENT

Hello frendz.
I want to export multiple reports to one file i.e. in one text file , pdf file, excel file
can anyone guide me .. how i can do that.. ?
thanks
DhavalYou can export one report in one file. Export reports in different files and combine them as a whole. I dont think there is an option to export multiple reports to single file

exporting multiple reports into one Excel Book

Hello,
Is there a way to export multiple reports(lets say 2 different reports) into
one Excel book at the same time'
please help
--
Saptagiri Tangudu
PNT Marketing ServicesOne way to do it would be to add these reports to a parent report as
subreports and export the parent report.
--
Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)
SQL Server Reporting Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Saptagiri" <saptagiri@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5A547A03-455A-4B65-894B-EEBF3A41FBDC@.microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> Is there a way to export multiple reports(lets say 2 different reports)
into
> one Excel book at the same time'
> please help
> --
> Saptagiri Tangudu
> PNT Marketing Services|||The sub report seems to have limitations, and also does not render as a
seperate sheet in an Excel book.
We produce serveral Excel reports to be distributed to various branches of a
major bank. I created the reports in the Visual studio editor, and am using a
C# program which supplies the branch name as a parameter and procudes the
excel book reports. now I want to be able to produce several reports into one
excel book at the same time.
Is there a way i can produce these excel books with multiple reports other
than using the sub report technique'
thanks a bunch...
Saptagiri Tangudu
PNT Marketing Services
"Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)" wrote:
> One way to do it would be to add these reports to a parent report as
> subreports and export the parent report.
> --
> Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)
> SQL Server Reporting Services
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> "Saptagiri" <saptagiri@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:5A547A03-455A-4B65-894B-EEBF3A41FBDC@.microsoft.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there a way to export multiple reports(lets say 2 different reports)
> into
> > one Excel book at the same time'
> >
> > please help
> >
> > --
> > Saptagiri Tangudu
> > PNT Marketing Services
>
>|||After the reports are generated, you could use Excel object model to merge
the files into one file.
--
Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)
SQL Server Reporting Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Saptagiri" <saptagiri@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:CD494DE2-7107-4892-94A9-97A126EA175D@.microsoft.com...
> The sub report seems to have limitations, and also does not render as a
> seperate sheet in an Excel book.
> We produce serveral Excel reports to be distributed to various branches of
a
> major bank. I created the reports in the Visual studio editor, and am
using a
> C# program which supplies the branch name as a parameter and procudes the
> excel book reports. now I want to be able to produce several reports into
one
> excel book at the same time.
> Is there a way i can produce these excel books with multiple reports other
> than using the sub report technique'
> thanks a bunch...
> Saptagiri Tangudu
> PNT Marketing Services
> "Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)" wrote:
> > One way to do it would be to add these reports to a parent report as
> > subreports and export the parent report.
> >
> > --
> > Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)
> > SQL Server Reporting Services
> >
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> > "Saptagiri" <saptagiri@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:5A547A03-455A-4B65-894B-EEBF3A41FBDC@.microsoft.com...
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is there a way to export multiple reports(lets say 2 different
reports)
> > into
> > > one Excel book at the same time'
> > >
> > > please help
> > >
> > > --
> > > Saptagiri Tangudu
> > > PNT Marketing Services
> >
> >
> >|||Thanks...
Saptagiri Tangudu
PNT Marketing Services
"Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)" wrote:
> After the reports are generated, you could use Excel object model to merge
> the files into one file.
> --
> Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)
> SQL Server Reporting Services
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> "Saptagiri" <saptagiri@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:CD494DE2-7107-4892-94A9-97A126EA175D@.microsoft.com...
> > The sub report seems to have limitations, and also does not render as a
> > seperate sheet in an Excel book.
> >
> > We produce serveral Excel reports to be distributed to various branches of
> a
> > major bank. I created the reports in the Visual studio editor, and am
> using a
> > C# program which supplies the branch name as a parameter and procudes the
> > excel book reports. now I want to be able to produce several reports into
> one
> > excel book at the same time.
> >
> > Is there a way i can produce these excel books with multiple reports other
> > than using the sub report technique'
> >
> > thanks a bunch...
> > Saptagiri Tangudu
> > PNT Marketing Services
> >
> > "Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)" wrote:
> >
> > > One way to do it would be to add these reports to a parent report as
> > > subreports and export the parent report.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)
> > > SQL Server Reporting Services
> > >
> > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> > > "Saptagiri" <saptagiri@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:5A547A03-455A-4B65-894B-EEBF3A41FBDC@.microsoft.com...
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to export multiple reports(lets say 2 different
> reports)
> > > into
> > > > one Excel book at the same time'
> > > >
> > > > please help
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Saptagiri Tangudu
> > > > PNT Marketing Services
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>|||Hi ,
Can you please let me know How to use Excel object maodel and where to use it?
Please guide me.
TIA
"Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)" wrote:
> After the reports are generated, you could use Excel object model to merge
> the files into one file.
> --
> Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)
> SQL Server Reporting Services
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> "Saptagiri" <saptagiri@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:CD494DE2-7107-4892-94A9-97A126EA175D@.microsoft.com...
> > The sub report seems to have limitations, and also does not render as a
> > seperate sheet in an Excel book.
> >
> > We produce serveral Excel reports to be distributed to various branches of
> a
> > major bank. I created the reports in the Visual studio editor, and am
> using a
> > C# program which supplies the branch name as a parameter and procudes the
> > excel book reports. now I want to be able to produce several reports into
> one
> > excel book at the same time.
> >
> > Is there a way i can produce these excel books with multiple reports other
> > than using the sub report technique'
> >
> > thanks a bunch...
> > Saptagiri Tangudu
> > PNT Marketing Services
> >
> > "Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)" wrote:
> >
> > > One way to do it would be to add these reports to a parent report as
> > > subreports and export the parent report.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ravi Mumulla (Microsoft)
> > > SQL Server Reporting Services
> > >
> > > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> > > "Saptagiri" <saptagiri@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:5A547A03-455A-4B65-894B-EEBF3A41FBDC@.microsoft.com...
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to export multiple reports(lets say 2 different
> reports)
> > > into
> > > > one Excel book at the same time'
> > > >
> > > > please help
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Saptagiri Tangudu
> > > > PNT Marketing Services
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>

Exporting in SSRS 2005

Hi,

I'm developing a web app in .NET 2.0 using SSRS 2000 and 2005. Some of the reports need to be exported directly to PDF when clicked, but the problem is in the fact that the user must select the parameters from the report manager window.

Is there any way to allow the direct export to PDF when generate is clicked, or to limit the options the user has to export to in the report manager.

P.S. If it is possible, I DO NOT want to accomplish this using code.

Thanks,

Hello,

Here's how to get rid of the other export options:

Navigate to {System Root}:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.{RS_Instance_ID}\Reporting Services\ReportServer

Open rsreportserver.config in your favorite text editor

Search for <Render>

You should see the available rendering extensions here

<Extension Name="XML" ... />

<Extension Name="EXCEL" ... />

...

In order to just have PDF available, comment out all but the line for PDF

<!-- <Extension Name="XML" ... /> -->

<!-- <Extension Name="EXCEL" ... /> -->

...

Save the file and close it

Please note, that if you do this, these options won't be available to anyone in Report Manager.

Hope this helps.

Jarret

|||Jarrett. I also had need to do this and it worked. However, I now need to restore one of the ones I had removed. I uncommented out the one I want back, saved the file, and started up Report Manager. The options under export didn't change. The uncommented one didn't reappear. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jim.|||Restart your SQL Server service and ReportServer service completely. Otherwise, check if you did not accidentally make a spelling mistake or something in the Config file. Eduard

Exporting in SSRS 2005

Hi,

I'm developing a web app in .NET 2.0 using SSRS 2000 and 2005. Some of the reports need to be exported directly to PDF when clicked, but the problem is in the fact that the user must select the parameters from the report manager window.

Is there any way to allow the direct export to PDF when generate is clicked, or to limit the options the user has to export to in the report manager.

P.S. If it is possible, I DO NOT want to accomplish this using code.

Thanks,

Hello,

Here's how to get rid of the other export options:

Navigate to {System Root}:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.{RS_Instance_ID}\Reporting Services\ReportServer

Open rsreportserver.config in your favorite text editor

Search for <Render>

You should see the available rendering extensions here

<Extension Name="XML" ... />

<Extension Name="EXCEL" ... />

...

In order to just have PDF available, comment out all but the line for PDF

<!-- <Extension Name="XML" ... /> -->

<!-- <Extension Name="EXCEL" ... /> -->

...

Save the file and close it

Please note, that if you do this, these options won't be available to anyone in Report Manager.

Hope this helps.

Jarret

|||Jarrett. I also had need to do this and it worked. However, I now need to restore one of the ones I had removed. I uncommented out the one I want back, saved the file, and started up Report Manager. The options under export didn't change. The uncommented one didn't reappear. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jim.|||Restart your SQL Server service and ReportServer service completely. Otherwise, check if you did not accidentally make a spelling mistake or something in the Config file. Eduard

Exporting in different Formats

Is there a way to hide the address bar, while exporting the reports to PDF or
Excel. Currently when i click export it opens up a new window with the
address bar containing the whole URL including the parameters i am passing.It is possible when you write your custom code, using web services. You gan
then render the page to any format, without having to show the page..
"prankster" wrote:
> Is there a way to hide the address bar, while exporting the reports to PDF or
> Excel. Currently when i click export it opens up a new window with the
> address bar containing the whole URL including the parameters i am passing.
>