this idea goes with my post on licensing reports. Is it possible to deploy an encrypted rdlc file and have custom SSRS pages that will decrypt it, run it, manage it, etc? We were thinking what is the point of custom SSRS pages for licensing if the rdlc is just a plain xml file any one can see, change, copy, etc.
thanks
Hi,
I will be using RDLC files to display reports in various pages.
My Question is this.
I need to use the same type of formatting of color,fonts,font sizes and the background colors so that the same can be used across the reports.
This is somewhat like using a CSS file for aspx pages.
Any ideas... , solution........, .......
I am using SSIS to create a weekly data extraction that will be emailed to an external agency. I can extract the data, create the file and email it without any problems but I want to compress and encrypt it before I send to give some measure of protection to sensitive data it would contain.
If I did this manually, I would simply use Winzip to compress and encrypt the file to be sent. How can I achieve a similar result programtically?
Is it possible to encrypt a file in SSIS using GPG or PGP.
I try to encrypt a file in SSIS using GPG the execute process task is executed successfully but the encrypted file is not generated.
I want to convert .rdl to .rdc need full steps.Actually i created .rdl report using sp sucessfully.Now i want to convert it to rdlc while doing it iam getting some authentication error and some thing else.I created rdl in 2008 and i want to change it to rdlc 2010.
View 5 Replies View RelatedCurrently have a single hard coded file path to the SSRS config file which parses the file and provides the reporting services web service url. My question is how would i run this same query against 100s of servers that may or may not share the same file path as the one hard coded ?
Is there a way to query the registry to find the location of the config file of any server ? which could be on D, E, F, H, etc.
I know I can string together the address followed by "reports" and named instance if needed, but some instances may not have used the default virtual directory name (Reports).
Am I going about this the hard way ? Is there a location where the web service url exists in a table ? I could not locate anything in the Reporting service database. Basically need to inventory all of my reporting services url's.
Hi,
I have a task to traverse a folder of CSV files of same format and then populate into one sql server table.
Is there a way where I can change the source CSV file name runtime using FOR EACH loop container for flat file connection manager ?
any help would be much appriciated.
Thanks,
Furrukh Baig
Greetings,
I want to increase the size of a transaction log file. Can I do this while the database is live? If not, what do I need to do?
Thanks!
Rob
Hi!
Is there a way I can make the source file in my DTS dynamic so that every time I run it using ASP I can tell it which file to use?
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I need to change a string in a .txt file using .NET, the .NET code will be executed by an SSIS package and the file needs to be changed so it can be used by another process which looks at that specific line (line 9 value: 'set ASOF=20080424'), for that specific date string.
What method in .NET can I use to perform this task? Should be very simple, correct?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Before I launch into a long description of the issue, I was wondering whether its possible to dynamically amend the file path held in a configuration string? (I'm looking at the Package Configurations Organizer)
Basically recreating the /CONF switch in the dtexec utility
So a parent package could somehow tell a child package to pull its configuration from a selection of different xml config files at run time... I couldn't see a variable in the child package to set from the former
My only idea at the moment is to replace the Execute Package Task with an Execute Process Task, and directly invoke the child using dtexec & an expression to dynamically set the /CONF switch..
thanks
James
I was looking to change the file growth setting in our AlwaysOn environment databases.We have a single availability group, one primary and one secondary replica. I learned that when changing the file growth setting on the primary databases (data file), the change flows though to the database on the secondary replica.However after doing the same with the log files, the file growth setting changed on the primary but the change did NOT propagate to the secondary.
Is the solution to apply the change directly to the secondary?here's the T-SQL code I used:
ALTER DATABASE myDB
MODIFY FILE ( NAME = N'myDB_log', FILEGROWTH = 512MB );
GO
SQL Server 2012 (11.0.5532)
I have a package that I plan to run against about 700 databases to look for anomalies. I have several package variables in place that are passed in at runtime. One of them will hold the path and filename of the error log for the current database in process. I want each database to generate it's own error log for documentation and research purposes. However, when I run the package, it continues to use the path and filename that I entered when I created the File Connection Manager. I am trying to update that value in a Script Task by using the ConnectionManager class and setting the value for the "ConnectionString" property. This method is working for the OLEDB Connection Manager (which tells the package which Access database to process), but not for my File Connection Manager. Please help!
DO
I have a data flow that reads from a flat file source, goes through one data transformation component to change from unicode to normal text and writes the data to a SQL Server table. This has been working fine throughout development using a specific source file as input. I have now manually changed the path and name of the input source file in the connection manager to point to a new file and the task continues to process the old text file.
I open the connection manager and check its properties and preview the data and it all looks fine - it is finding the new file. I also edit the flat file source component and preview the data and it shows the data from the new file. I run the data flow by right-clicking and selecting Execute Container and it continually reads the old file and processes it! (I do the right-click thing because this is just one small part of a larger package.)
This has got to be a bug, but just where I wonder. Anyone ever see this before? I'm going to try to run the entire package in debug mode, instead of right-clicking, next and see if that's any different. Anyone have any ideas on how to force a refresh of the necessary internal components to make it read the new file? All the external properties point to the new file, but it's not being read.
Joe
Update:
I ran the entire package and found no difference in execution - it's still reading the wrong input file. I then deleted and recreated the connection manager, again specifying the new file to read. It still continued to read the old file. I deleted the flat file source component and recreated it, specifying the latest connection manager (twice, since I must have pointed it at the wrong one the first time and it read a completely different file). I still have the same problem of it reading the wrong input file. I don't know what else to recreate that would have any effect. Does anyone have any ideas? I need to change the pointer to different files multiple times and have it read several different input files. This has got to work somehow. Any help is appreciated.
Joe
Hello,
I have setup a package configuration and it ran fine; however, I would like to be able to use the script task to change content of the dtsConfig file. For example, I can get the newServerName using the SQL Task, then how can I assign the newServerName value to the DataSource in the package configuration file? Is this possible?
Thanks,
Andrew
When I am working on an Integrations Services project and I open a Reporting Services file, it displays it in the Code view. Is there a way to display it in the Design view? Or do I have to close the project and open up a Reporting Services project?
Fred
I'm trying to write an SSIS package that exports a table that has changing column names to an excel file. The column names change due to the fact that the table is created by a pivot daily. the only thing I'm missing is the ability to dynamically map the tables' columns to the excel destination. Is this possible?
I read in another thread that
"It is not possible to create packages or new objects within packages using SSIS."
I also read in the books online that "The input and the input columns of the Excel destination have no custom
properties." To me this means that I cannot programmatically create or remove columns in the excel destination. Please tell me I'm wrong.
So, to summarize my research so far. In writing an SSIS package, I cannot programmatically create a new excel destination object and I can't manipulate an existing one. I hope I'm wrong. Can anyone help me? (and please correct any wrong assumptions I may have stated)
Facing problem while loading date in MS SQL Server 2005 from excel file (csv format).
How to load the excel file data without changing the excel file (csv format) .
see the [Start Date] and [ Exp End Date] having values like this : " 2015/07/31"
Hi,
Our company wants to allow our customers the ability to import employee data. Each customer's employee data changes depending on things like organisation structure etc. so the format of the data to be imported needs to change. We can do a lot of this with dynamic SQL, but are looking at moving it to SSIS as we think it will save us a lot of pain later on and for other features in SSIS.
We're stuck at a fairly early part of the process as we don't know how to dynamically import our spreadsheet. So far our best idea is to connect to the excel connection as the only step in the data task and then to use a script task on the control task, write code to connect to the excel source (set the excel source to not treat the first row as headers so we can do a 'select top 1 *...' ) then create a dynamic sql command to create the table.
Once this is done we would then have another data task that actually puts the data into the newly created table. This all sounds very difficult though. What are the options for doing what we want to do... have a feeling that we're missing something basic.
Any help appreciated,
TIA, Anthony.
Hi all
I have a flat file.I am trying to set the value for the property "HeaderRowsToSkip" during runtime.I have set an expression for this in my "flat file connection manager". But this is not working.The connection manager is not able to take the value during runtime.
My expression is as follows:
DataRowsToSkip : @[user:: Var]
where "Var" is my variable which gets the value from the rowcount component and trying to set it back to the "HeaderRowsToskip" property.
I ve even tried setting the value to the "HeaderRowsToSkip" property in the expression builder.
Its not working....
Can anyone help me out in solving this????
Thanks in advance
Regards
Suganya
I have a flat with few columns
FirstName, lastName, Address
f1,l1,a1
f2,l2,a2
I build my SSIS package based on the above file.But now i receive files with different columns order let say
lastName,FirstNamr,Address
l1,f1,a1
L2,f2,a2
or
Address,FirstName,LastName
a1,f1,l1
a2,f2,l2
every time i receive multiple files in different order and i have to remap all my mappings. These are just a few columns and i have like 20 columns and the order can potentially change any time. so every time i have build new packages remap them etc.
through normal c# code it pretty easy. I tried to add script here but the script also needs a source and mapping so there is also a mapping issue. Is there a better way to do this.
I would like to use SQL client-side reporting in ASP.NET. However, our customer would like to edit the report sometimes, is there any existing graphical editor to edit .rdlc file?
Thanks.
I am using Local Report, .RDLC, I want to Set PageName A4, How Can I set PageName in Report .RDLC??
I can set Page Size but I wan to Set Page Name.
Thanking You.
I am having a rdlc report in which i have to fit the image. I dragged and dropped the Image from the toolbox. I am able to get the Image but if the image is small i want to get small or else if the image is big i want to get big image . At the moment i am getting same for both of them. I am using VB.net to get the Image and sql2005. Any solution for this....
I have searched the archive of this forum, and based on some previous answers have read the followin FAQ
http://www.gotreportviewer.com/
However, even so, I still have a questoin about when to use RDLC vs RDL from the point of view of licensing and load sharing betwee DB and report server.
1. As we all know that SSRS will take a license of SQL Server if the web service is deployed on any other machine other than SQL Server (which is normally the case because no serious DBA will allow IIS apps to be installed on the DB Server). Also, if the SSRS is deployed on NLB cluster then each node of the cluster would need a "SQL Enterprise" license. (which can be very expensive).
2. Co deploying the SSRS with SQL Server is a bad idea because it puts excessive load on the DB+Report Server.
3. Since there is no "load balancing" in SQL all the rendering has to be done by the SSRS service which is running on the DB Server.
Now compare this to RDLC
1. RDLC gives me the same engine as RDL
2. However it has no licensing tags to it.
3. I can deploy ASP.NET report viewer on my web farm and scale it out as much as I like.
4. Extract data from the DB using stored procedures.
So it seems that RDLC solution is cheaper, gives better scale out capabilities and also moves the rendering of reports on the web farm rather than the Report Server.
Why should me or anyone else choose RDL at all?
There seems to be one disadvantage that the data has to fetched programmatically and manually binded (like an ASP.NET app) as RDLC does not provide any feature to connect to data sources. But this is not much when you see the cost and scalability benefits.
regards,
Abhishek.
Hello everyone, thanks in advance for reading. I'm new to reports and have tried searching for my answer with no luck. Any direction would be great.
Here is the issue, I have 3 colums in the dataset which display String data ("High", "Medium", or "Low")
I've added a column to the table on the report where I would like to convert the value of "High", "Medium" and "Low" to 3,2,1 respectively then SUM these numbers.
Is this possible? I've tried several variations of the code below--maybe it's not possible to do what I want? Thanks again for your time and help.
Fields!PP.Value is set to:
=Switch(Fields!Avail_Rank.Value = "High", 3, Fields!Avail_Rank.Value = "Medium", 2, Fields!Avail_Rank.Value = "Low", 1)
=Switch(Fields!Volume.Value = "High", 3, Fields!Volume.Value = "Medium", 2, Fields!Volume.Value = "Low", 1)
=Switch(Fields!Integ_Rank.Value = "High", 3, Fields!Integ_Rank.Value = "Medium", 2, Fields!Integ_Rank.Value = "Low", 1)
=Sum(Fields!Avail_Rank.Value + Fields!Volume.Value + Fields!Integ_Rank)
hi forum
how to add Serial No in "Report.rdlc". I want to add SNo. in as a extra field in Report.
SNo. ItemName Price
1 abc 10
2 xyz 20
Hey there guys!
I am trying to convert, (as the title suggests), an already created .rdl file to a .rdlc file. I have googled it and yes came across the most informative "step-by-step", however even after renaming to .rdlc and opening the file in SQL Server 2005 BI the file is still not being deserialized using the reportdefinition from 2005.
Can somebody please help with this and provide me with something a little clearer than "...you must convert the file.".
Thanks in advance for all your help,
Ron
We have developed client SQL Server Reporting Services reports (rdlc) that are completely dynamic.
Everything on the report itself is build from code.
There are a few problems in the formatting of these reports that we have not been able to correct.
1) Because of the way the data has to be displayed. we have had to use a List control with Textboxes and Lines within to give the appearance of a table.(Column headers are textboxes with background set to gray). Line controls exist between each column of data. We did this because we need to have nested lists in some cases to display the data.
The height of the listbox is adjusted to fit the contents within. The vertical lines between the columns appear broken with gaps between each item.
Is there any way to set the line height to automatically fit the height of the ListBox.
2) Another issue we have is with Texboxes. If there is no value in the Textbox, the borders do not show. CanShrink is set to false. Hidden is false. Is there any other setting or something else that could be causing this?
Using ASP.NET 2, C#, Web application, we have an rdlc report which will be primarily used to export to an Excel spreadsheet. When we run thw report, then export it, we wind up with a spreadsheet with no gridlines, eg a spreadsheet with invisible cell borders.
Is the a setting or property somewhere which can be changed so that the spreadsheet which opens after the export looks like a standard spreadsheet, that is, with visible cell borders?
Many thanks
Mike Thomas
Hello
I am pretty new to reporting services. Now i have something like this. on the .cs file, i have a fullName lets say
String fullName = "John Smith",
Now I want to pass this string to the report's textBox and show this value on this textbox.
How can i do this?
1.How should i write in .cs file?
2. How should i set the expression for the textbox?
Thank you very much. It is very urgent! Please help!
Hi,
We had come a long way in implementing reports using RDLC and now we are stuck with the requirement to display RTF text using RDLC.
Is there a way to display a RTF Text in RDLC in a purely managed code?
The links mentioned below provides a work around solution to this but a part of its implementation is in un-managed code.
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=551939&SiteID=1
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=738557&SiteID=1
Iam also curious to know if Microsoft has released a patch or service pack that supports RTF in RDLC?
Iam using .NET 3.0 with SP1 and my backend is MS-SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.
Thanks & Regards
Arvind T N
I have a very simple test report created in Visual Studio 2005 as an rdlc file in my dll. The rdlc file is in the dll because it is built off of the business objects. I need to be able to stream this file (i.e. not use a report viewer) to the browser.
I found code that I included below, but get an error:
The report definition for report 'Monkey.Report1' has not been specified
Yes my test namespace in my dll is named "Monkey" )
Anyway, any idea on how to solve this?
Code Snippet
using Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms;
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
LocalReport localReport = new LocalReport();
localReport.ReportEmbeddedResource = "Monkey.Report1.rdlc";
ReportDataSource reportDataSource = new ReportDataSource("FamilyCollection", Monkey.Family.RetrieveAll());
localReport.DataSources.Add(reportDataSource);
string reportType = "PDF";
string mimeType;
string encoding;
string fileNameExtension;
string deviceInfo =
"<DeviceInfo>" +
" <OutputFormat>PDF</OutputFormat>" +
" <PageWidth>8.5in</PageWidth>" +
" <PageHeight>11in</PageHeight>" +
" <MarginTop>0.5in</MarginTop>" +
" <MarginLeft>1in</MarginLeft>" +
" <MarginRight>1in</MarginRight>" +
" <MarginBottom>0.5in</MarginBottom>" +
"</DeviceInfo>";
Warning[] warnings;
string[] streams;
byte[] renderedBytes;
//Render the report
renderedBytes = localReport.Render(reportType, deviceInfo, out mimeType, out encoding, out fileNameExtension, out streams, out warnings);
//Clear the response stream and write the bytes to the outputstream
Response.Clear();
Response.ContentType = mimeType;
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=foo." + fileNameExtension);
Response.BinaryWrite(renderedBytes);
Response.End();
}