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?
Hi there, I am trying to get a report to export to a pdf or xls file at a specific location using a command line action. I got the example for Publishing sample reports to work at the following site: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms160854.aspx. I am trying to modify this example to get it to put a file out to a directory.
The code I am using in my .rss file is:
CODE Public Sub Main()
'setting the credentials to the machine that this application is running on rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
Dim ResultStream() As Byte Dim filename As String = "Test.pdf"
'rendering the report as a pdf ResultStream = ReportExecutionService.Render("http://MyServer/reportserver?/AdventureWorks+Sample+Reports/Company+Sales", "PDF", Nothing, "<DeviceInfo><StreamRoot>/RSWebServiceXS/</StreamRoot></DeviceInfo>", Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)
'creating a file to hold the stream Dim stream As FileStream = File.Create("C:whatever" + filename)
'writing the stream to the file stream.Write(ResultStream, 0, ResultStream.Length) stream.Close()
End Sub The command line is:
CODE C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90SamplesReporting ServicesScript Sampl es>rs -i ExportRenderTest.rss -s http://dbasql01/reportserver I am getting the error: C:Documents and Settingsdan.evansLocal SettingsTempc6xhwdrx.1.vb(24) : error BC30456: 'Render' is not a member of 'Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.ReportingService2005'.
Has anyone had any experience doing this sort of thing?
My holy grail is to create an ssis package that accepts some arguments (source rs report path, destination path, report parms, destination file format, etc...) that I can use over and over again to manage some automated report distribution.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!!! Thanks, Dan
' File: Test.rss Dim format as string = "Excel" Dim fileName as String = "C:Export2.xls" Dim reportPath as String = "/TimeByEmployee"
Public Sub Main()
' Prepare Render arguments Dim historyID as string = Nothing Dim deviceInfo as string = Nothing Dim showHide as string = Nothing Dim results() as Byte Dim encoding as string Dim mimeType as string = "ms-excel" Dim warnings() AS Warning = Nothing Dim reportHistoryParameters() As ParameterValue = Nothing Dim streamIDs() as string = Nothing rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
Dim parameters(3) As ParameterValue parameters(0) = New ParameterValue() parameters(0).Name = "Employee" parameters(0).Value = " " parameters(1) = New ParameterValue() parameters(1).Name = "Departments" parameters(1).Value = " " parameters(2) = New ParameterValue() parameters(2).Name = "Week Number" parameters(2).Value = WeekNumber results = rs.Render(reportPath, format, _ Nothing, Nothing, parameters, _ Nothing, Nothing, encoding, mimeType, _ reportHistoryParameters, warnings, streamIDs)
' Open a file stream and write out the report Dim stream As FileStream = File.OpenWrite(fileName) stream.Write(results, 0, results.Length) stream.Close()
' File: Test.rss Dim format as string = "Excel" Dim fileName as String = "C:Export2.xls" Dim reportPath as String = "/TimeByEmployee"
Public Sub Main()
' Prepare Render arguments Dim historyID as string = Nothing Dim deviceInfo as string = Nothing Dim showHide as string = Nothing Dim results() as Byte Dim encoding as string Dim mimeType as string = "ms-excel" Dim warnings() AS Warning = Nothing Dim reportHistoryParameters() As ParameterValue = Nothing Dim streamIDs() as string = Nothing rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
Dim parameters(3) As ParameterValue parameters(0) = New ParameterValue() parameters(0).Name = "Employee" parameters(0).Value = " " parameters(1) = New ParameterValue() parameters(1).Name = "Departments" parameters(1).Value = " " parameters(2) = New ParameterValue() parameters(2).Name = "Week Number" parameters(2).Value = WeekNumber results = rs.Render(reportPath, format, _ Nothing, Nothing, parameters, _ Nothing, Nothing, encoding, mimeType, _ reportHistoryParameters, warnings, streamIDs)
' Open a file stream and write out the report Dim stream As FileStream = File.OpenWrite(fileName) stream.Write(results, 0, results.Length) stream.Close()
I've created some reports in Reporting Services 2003 and would like to call them up from a .Net 2003 windows based application. I'm passing one parameter to the report and would like to be able to automatically call the Save As... command and provide a path and name to save the file. I wnat to render the report as a PDf file and save it in that format as well. I can generate the name of the file on the fly using the input parameter value.
What I need is a sample of how to instantiate a reporting services object in .Net 2003 and the commands to execute the Save As function after the report has been rendered.
I want to bring up a report via a URL and pass parameters to initialize the report parameters in the report. But I do not want the report to execute, to give the user the opportunity to change the passed report parameters. How do I turn off the &rs:Command=Render option since it is also the default?
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 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??
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 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 = ""
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...
Using Query Analyzer, I can right click on an object and select "scriptobject to new window as create" and I get the text of the object'sdefinition (schema). Can I get same result from command line, i.e., fromosql, I can get text output for the definition of the object (something likedefncopy under Sybase)? If so, what is the command or store procedure name?Thanks in advance.
Hi I wonder if it is possible to create a dataset in code and then feed it to a Reporting Svcs (RS) report and have it rendered on the data from this dataset. My collegues does this with Crystal and it would break my heart if I cant do this with (RS)... I have tried to find a solution but so far, no luck. Anyone have any ideas?
I have set up a test subscription that sends an email that includes both the report and the url link to the report. However, the report does not render when user clicks on url link in subscription email. The parameter toolbar sorta appears at top of page but buttons are not showing correcty. I saw similiar issue posted in another forum but no one had resolved yet. We all noticed that the subscription email uses /reportserver folder instead of /Reports folder.
The report does appear fine in the email so I believe the problem is the URL.
I am wondering if anyone knows how to change the sheet names in Excel when exporting a report from Reporting Services 2005. In other words, I have a report with approximately 5 page breaks built in. When I render the report to Excel, it creates the 5 sheets as I expect, but it names them "Sheet1", "Sheet2", "Sheet3" etc... Is there a way to specify the name of the sheets? I am currently using a different table in my report for each sheet, but I am open to structuring this differently if needed.
I have an application wherein I need to generate a single report(possibly in PDF format) which contains more than one report. Iam using SSRS 2005. In my application Iam using report server url to render reports. The below is URL for rendering single report.
hi I would appreciate if someone demonstrate how to automate ftp in a command line from within a batch file. I do want to move certain files from one server to another via ftp command line in an automatic fashion via running the batch periodically.
I use a similar command below to insert into a temp table the result of a large command line call to an exectable with many parameters passed in the command of which the result passed back contains many items. I then parse the response string to get my results...
set @command = 'dir' insert into tsverisign(response) exec master..xp_cmdshell @command
My question is our can I insert two values at the same time to this same table one of which is my "exec master..xp_cmdshell @command"
similar to insert into tables (field_a, feild_b) values ('1','2')
Something like (and I know this does not work):
insert into tsverisign(response,trans_id) values (exec master..xp_cmdshell @command, '123')
Any help would be greatly appreciated .... PS I'm new to MS SQL 2000 and proper syntax etc. etc. so I need full example so I can try. :rolleyes:
I was given a task of coming up with the script to recreate an existing database using a command line. I would use this script in case when the server is down and I can't get to Query Analyzer or EM to recreate it. I am not sure where to start. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
