How To Use The Render Method To Save A Report Directly To Disk ?
May 2, 2007
Hi there,
Is there a way to programmatically save a RS results into Excel format using the render method ?
I had read about that capability but I can't seem to find any sample code on how to do it. Is this a parameter that you have to set in the render method ?
hi I am using SSRS for Reports. Every thing working fine, but i have one problem when my rport get the 2000 record (each record showing on single page in my senario) then ReportExecutionService.Render method did not return array of byte[]. Can u help me as soon as possible.
I have a report that I'm hosting on SSRS. I have it setup for localization so if someone hits the report directly and their default language setting in their browser is ja-JP the report will display in Japanese. I am using the User!Language variable for this.
I am primarily displaying this report through an ASP.NET app however and am calling the Render method on the ReportingService service, then displaying the returned HTML in a literal control. This works great except, obviously, with this proxy type of set up the user's browser settings get lost in the shuffle. I can retrieve the browser settings easily enough in my ASP.NET application but how do I pass those settings along to SSRS? I have tried setting the CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture on the thread executing the request but it still comes back in English. I have also tried setting the Language property (as shown below) but it seems as though that would change the Language on the report for everyone, not just my session.
Hi all does anyone know where I can find more information on the Render method of the Reporting Services WS? Specifically there is a DeviceInfo parameter that you need to pass in and it is a string that is in an XML format but I cannot seem to find any documentation on the specifics of it. I have seen a few examples but no specifics.
I am trying to render a Report in HTML4.0 format using ReportExecution2005 web service's Render method. When I use this, I am getting all the results in a single page. I want to display the results page by page as ReportViewer control does. Is there any way to get the total number of pages of the Result using Render() web method?
Hello all, according to the documentation for the DeviceInfo parameter of the ReportingService.Render method the Xml string fragment of PageHeight and PageWidth for the Image Device Information Settings should and I quote.
The page height, in inches, to set for the report. You must include an integer or decimal value followed by "in" (for example, 11in). This value overrides the report's original settings.
Emphasis mine. Page width is similar. However when I change that value to what is desired for the IMAGE format it has no effect whatsoever no matter what value I place in there.
Indeed the size that is rendered is more related to the current display resolution setting rather than the PageHeight/PageWidth values passed in. In otherwords if my laptop has a higher resolution of 1920x1200 and the server that I deploy this WS to has a lower resolution of 1280x1024, the image rendered on the higher resolution display fits on to an 8.5x11.0 in page with room to spare but on the lower resolution display it is clipped because it does not fit the page.
Is there something that I am doing wrong or is this indeed a bug?
I had been looking around for some info about this.
So far I understand that the showhidetoggle parameter determines which drilldowns are visible or hidden.
I am trying to use the render method, and try to show the drilldowns on my html page.
First question:
How does the showhidetoggle work in the URL or even show an example of how the drilldowns work through showhidetoggle ? In other words, how does the showhidetoggle knows which one to display if I have only one string value ? Maybe there is another way to do this or another way to define this syntax ?
Second question:
How do i determine the number or the string parameter without having to look through html ? is there a way to do this so that I can pass this string to the parameter in the ASMX ?
I'm at a bit of a loss as it seems what I want to do should be obvious but I can't seem to locate whether it is possible. Essentially I would like to render a report using the api/C# and I would like to set the actual data the report renders via an XML string that I construct however I like within my code. Is this not possible? I hope I'm overlooking the obvious here.
In my data archiving process , I would end up deleting hunders records from the production databases but would that help me save some DISK space immediately??? Should I run some DBCC command to get some disk space ?
if SO ..!! What should I do after deleting the records..????
Hi,I'm trying to write a Save method which is conditional based on the form fields which the user has completed. I'm using the SqlCommand to write the Save method. I'd like to be able to only save the form fields which the user have completed, but I'm not sure what is the better option. Whether to check which fields have been filled in and have different methods for each form field. Is there a better way to write a conditional save method?Stephen
I've got a SQL Reporting Server 2000 SP2 report that takes 3 parameters. FromDT, ToDT, and LocationCD. The first two parameters are free form text fields that expect a date. The last one is a drop down box. For some reason, when I'm viewing the report through the standard reports folder on the report server I have to click the "View Report" button two times to get the report to render. Clicking it just once, doesn't seem to do anything. The report is a line graph.
There are default values in the FromDT and ToDT parameter fields.
Anyone have any ideas what would be causing the need for the second click?
Hello -- I'm building an app that will allow users to create their own photo galleries. At this point, I'm planning on storing all photos as byte arrays in SQL server image fields. Besides the organizational benefit, is there a space benefit to doing this? That is, if I have 1MB of .jpg's, will those same images take up less than 1MB of file space within the database? One of the reasons I ask is that most hosting plans out there seem to offer more "normal" disk space than is allocated for the database, so I'm trying to make a best plan to accommodate what will probably end up being the biggest disk space consumer in my app (the photos, that is). Any other recommendations re: this scenario (hosting, best practices) are appreciated. TIA, Eric
I have to access a web service where I pass in a product number and it produces an XML result with an /image section where it has a long string (base64?) I am trying to call the web service and save the image to the OS.
I am trying to get the result into a variable and save it to disk with the itemno.jpg as the name
This is a sample file I get back..
<NewDataSet> <Table> <ITEMNO>2065</ITEMNO> <Image>/9j/4QAYRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP/sABFEdWNr ... removed since too long for post ...</Image> <ImageDate>2015-04-15T00:00:00+00:00</ImageDate> </Table> </NewDataSet>
Hi all I am using local reports.(.rdlc files) My requirement is when the user selects some options in the form and click on Submit buttion,He should get report in PDF format directly.Is it possible?if possible give me some example code.No need to preview in general format. Help me. Regards.
Private Function MoveToPage(ByVal page As Int32) As Boolean
' Check to make sure that the current page exists in
' the array list
If Nothing Is Me.RenderedReport(m_currentPrintingPage - 1) Then
Return False
End If
' Set current page stream equal to the rendered page
m_currentPageStream = New MemoryStream(Me.RenderedReport(m_currentPrintingPage - 1))
' Set its postion to start.
m_currentPageStream.Position = 0
' Initialize the metafile
If Not Nothing Is m_metafile Then
m_metafile.Dispose()
m_metafile = Nothing
End If
' Load the metafile image for this page
m_metafile = New Metafile(CType(m_currentPageStream, Stream))
Return True
End Function
Private Function MetafileCallback(ByVal recordType As EmfPlusRecordType, ByVal flags As Integer, ByVal dataSize As Integer, ByVal data As IntPtr, ByVal callbackData As PlayRecordCallback) As Boolean
Dim dataArray As Byte() = Nothing
' Dance around unmanaged code.
If data <> IntPtr.Zero Then
' Copy the unmanaged record to a managed byte buffer
My Requirement is to dirctly Print the SSRS Report without using Reportviewer. If anybody know How to Print Report without using Reportviewer, please let me know asap.
Hello All, I have a report which throwing this error:
Cannot read the next data row for the data set ALERTSBYSERVERS. (rsErrorReadingNextDataRow) Get Online Help Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type datetime
This report can be viewed on the Visual Studio, but is not rendering it on the Reporting console. Any ideas??
I have a requirement to export certain data directly in csv format from the link thats in the report interface.
Though i am able to open new window report from the link by passing the needed parameter is there any way that we can directly open the excel from the link in data table in report..
i have a report that is on a subscription to my team members that i want to be rendered in the actual email that they open up. i do not want them to have to click on the pdf or excel attachment to open it up, i just want the content of the report to be in the email itself in outlook.
Hello, I am trying to get a SSRS 2005 report to print from my Visual Studio 2005 C++ application without using the ReportViewer to preview it first. What I have done is created a dll that I call into when I want to access a certain report and print it. While searching around on the internet I found an MSDN article about printing a report without previewing and it had an example in C# code. So I used that as a guide for my C++ code but I am still having problems with rendering the report properly so it can be printed. When I try to render a report using the "Image" format, my streamid string is empty but the byte array that the render routine returns is not. Here is the code I am using, what could be the problem here?
Note: m_Streams is define elsewhere as array<String^>^ m_Streams = gcnew array<String^>(10);
Can anybody tell me if it's possible to set a report to render directly to PDF please. I've found stuff on how to do it via a url but that's not how we want to do it.
I've got a complex report with many subreports that is running on a reporting services 2005 machine with sp2 installed. The report was working well, producing a 2800 page report in under 10 minutes. I made a change to an expression in a table's column header and one change to the detail and the report stopped working. It would just hang for hours with no messages in the logs.
I tried to simplify what the report server had to do by removing the sum's to the database side's stored proc but that didn't work. I finally managed to get the report to work by removing a totals section to a subreport. I've also had the same hanging condition occur when I merged some columns in the table. I also found a workaround for this problem.
Is anyone else finding problems like this? They don't seem to be code related.
Is there a limit to how complex a report can be in reporting services or the PDF rendering part of the process?
I have a .net application in this application I want to call directly subscription page of a perticular Report through URL. And i want to hide the header section too.Is it possible If not how can i provide this feature of subscription in my application
I seem to be unable to pass parameters from a VB .Net application to Reporting Services.
Before I added the parameters to the query, I got all the rows back. So I know the application is basically working. Now that I have added the parameters, I get nothing.
I thought the SetExecutionParameters function would help, but my syntax is wrong and it fails.
I would appreciate any hint as to what step I am missing.
Report setup:
Parameters
Name Value @Report =Parameters!Report.Value @Corp =Parameters!Corp.Value @Dept =Parameters!Dept.Value
Query conditions
WHERE Report = 'BudgetVarianceSummary' AND PeriodEnd = CONVERT(DateTime,CONVERT(char,GETDATE()- DATEPART(day,GETDATE()),112)) AND Report = @Report AND Corp = @Corp AND Dept = @Dept
VB Code snippet:
Dim reportPath As String = "/FinancialReports/BudgetVarianceSummary" Dim format As String = "PDF"
' Prepare report parameter. Dim parameters(3) As ParameterValue parameters(0) = New ParameterValue() parameters(0).Name = "Report" parameters(0).Value = "BudgetVarianceSummary" parameters(1) = New ParameterValue() parameters(1).Name = "Corp" parameters(1).Value = "10" parameters(2) = New ParameterValue() parameters(2).Name = "Dept" parameters(2).Value = "7255"
Dim execInfo As New ExecutionInfo Dim execHeader As New ExecutionHeader() Dim SessionId As String Dim extension As String = ""
I am trying to redo an app that I built to gen reoprts from the command line in a specified format using RS 2000 to use RS 2005. However, I am having a problem using rs.exe to render a report. It looks like the rs.Render method no longer exists. It also looks like you can no longer get to these methods from the rs.exe environment.
Is it still possible to render reports using rs.exe? If so, can somebody please provide an example?
We have written a C# program in which we want to execute a SQL Report and return the report as a PDF
When we execute our code we get a message that System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The item '/production/Sudhir' cannot be found. ---> What Is syntax for ReportExecutionService.render(string report) How do we define the string report?
ReportService.ReportingService rs = new ReportService.ReportingService();
result = rs.Render("/production/Sudhir", "PDF", null, null, null, null, null, out encoding, out mimetype, out parametersUsed, out warnings, out streamids);
I have 2 reports that report on baiscally the same thing, just group differently.
Report 1 groups summary phone call stats by Department, Day, and Hour - which are all drop down options. This means that the department summary stats are shown when the reports are rendered and can be expanded to see daily stats ... the daily stats can then be expanded to see the hourly stats.
Kinda Like: ------------------------- -Department 1 -10/1/2007 12:00 AM 1:00 AM +10/2/2007
+Department 2 -------------------------
Report 2 shows the same summary stats by department and extension - which is also a drop down option. This means that the department summary stats are shown when the reports are rendered and can be expanded to see summary stats for each extension.
The queries for these reports run from the Management Studio in about 10 seconds each with the Report 1 query returning about 800 rows for the month of October 2007 and the Report 2 query returning about 30 rows for the same date range.
When the reports are rendered, Report 1 (with 800 rows) is rendered in about 20 seconds, while Report 2 (with only 30 rows) takes about 5 minutes to render.
The reports themselves are very similar, with the only difference being the grouping. It is weird that the report that returns the samller Dataset is actually taking longer to render.
One thing I did try was running the queries from the Data tab of the .rdl files (in visual studio) and the query for Report 2 took about 4 minutes to return data, while (as I mentioned above) it ran in about 10 seconds in Management Studio.
I want to display a varbinary field in the reports. the field contains value "<B> example </B>. When viewed in report viewer, it displays the value as such.
I know I can display the time that the report was generated, but can I display how LONG it took for the report to complete?
From when the first query was executed to the time all the data was returned and/or the time it took for the report to be rendered back to the end user?
I am trying to export a report into a format whiich I will then allow the user to make some final editions to prior to printing. Apparently LocalReport>Render does not support word format, however is supports others, what is the best format for me to export a report out into in order to then allow the user to edit it prior to printing, Ideally I would have just liked to lauch ms word and allow the user to edit the report if disired prior ro printing, but if I first export to .mhtml it seems to mess the column widths of the report up when opened in word..
We have a solution where we from a Windows application (using the report viewer control SP1) display some reports. Some of the reports uses a custom report item to display some graphics. This works fine on a lot of different installations, but now (for some reason) we have a problem at one customer.
We get strange GDI and transport errors when rendering these reports:
"Unable to read data from the transport connection: The connection was closed."
or
"Remote GDI stream version: 10.0.1. Expected version 10.0.1. Offset and length were out of bounds for the array or count is greater than the number of elements from the index to the end of the source collection."
These report work fine when you run them in the browser, but they never work in the report viewer control...