Can A Report Be Deployed In A Compiled/binary Format?
Nov 14, 2007
we're about to plan exactly how we install rs reports on our customers' systems and are wondering if there is more of a binary/compiled format that can be deployed as opposed to the xml source we see in .rdl files?
We keep the lowest form of everything (.dlls, sql scripts etc) in deployment directories and wonder if RS2005's lowest (or most efficient for deployment) form is the .rdl itself. I noticed that Reporting Services (when scripting a report in mgt studio) shows what appears to be the .rdl wrapped in VB but dont really know if that form has to be stored or not on the ReportServer DB in order for RS to work. I couldnt find a ReportServer DB table that had this form but have to believe it is there somewhere if Reporting Services can display it. But maybe a format more geared toward execution is stored along side it?
So if .rdl can be considered "source code" I guess the question is "does it need to be deployed in that form for RS to work or is a more binary like format also available"?
We have 10 charts in One RDL file, out of these 10 charts 3 Pie charts are displayed dynamically, Using 'Visibility' property expression in the 'Hidden' sub property as below.
Which returns 'true' or 'false' for 'Hidden' property. Each chart has to be displayed on separate page, hence we have set 'PageBreakAtEnd' Property to true for each chart.
Problem: But, when this RDL file is deployed on report server, these charts are all displayed on single page without any page breaks. however, when the RDL file is exported in PDF format, the report is rendered with charts on separate pages as expected.
Is there any way to ensure the charts are rendered properly, in report viewer of report server ?
I have developed a custom report item that works fine in design and preview mode while in Visual Studio. I cannot get it to show up on my deployed reports. Here's what I have done so far:
1. Deployed the report using Visual Studio
2. updated the rsreportserver.config file with the following entry:
I've also tried using the StrongNameMembershipCondition with no better results.
4. The dll and its dependencies are copied to the bin directory of the report server.
5. When I load a report with this custom report item on it, the report loads fine with no errors or warnings in the log file (even with verbose tracing). The area where the custom item should be is just white. It's almost like Reporting Services isn't registering the item correctly.
This is particularly frustrating because the report works fine in Visual Studio - apparently I configured that correctly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm stumped.
I have some OLAP reports in which I have to alter the MDX statements each month, in the VS2005 report designer. They are deployed to the web and they contain Descriptions and Subscriptions which I create once they get to the web. The way I am currently updating them each month is by editing the reports in VS2005 and re-deploying them to the Reports Server. I then have to add the descriptions again and create new Subscriptions because the orig reports are deleted when the new ones, with the same name are deployed. There has to be a way that I can just alter the existing reports in the web environment and not have to recreate the Subscriptions each month. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi, I was hoping someone can help me fix a problem I am having when I deploy my rs report. What happens is when I view my report in designer everything works fine, however when I deploy me report to the report server and begin to drilldown into the matrix the entire report shifts down each time I toggle one of my drilldown fields. This causes the top of the report to disappear. The user than has the scroll up each time to reposition the report. Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone how to fix it?
I encountered the following error after I deployed a report . The deployment process was successful, however, when I try to run the reports from the remote machine, It gives me an error message saying:
An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted)
Cannot create a connection to data source 'SessionOLAP'. (rsErrorOpeningConnection)
For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors
On the other hand, I deployed this report on the local machine where the reportserver resides and it is running perfect.
Do you have any idea how to deal with this problem?
I deployed my phone directory to the server and now dynamic images are no longer being displayed. They are specifically employee photos based on a naming convention. I used the path as ''file:/// etc.'' and when I open up my start menu and throw it into run it works fine. It also runs fine in my visual studio report, but for whatever reason when its deployed it no-longer runs. Does anyone know what could eb causing this problem?
When I run the SSRS report in development mode, it is working fine. When I run in deployed localhost, I faced an error message as below:
The permissions granted to user 'FAROUKYEWNOTEBOASPNET' are insufficient for performing this operation. (rsAccessDenied) Hope someone can enlighten me on this.
VS2005 project with imbedded SQL Server reports works fine in VS IDE going agianst a network SQL Server 2005 or the local SQL Server 2005. However, when the application is deployed (to another computer). the application starts and connects successfully to the network SQL Server 2005. Everything works until the user tries to produce a report. Then the following error is generated: Named Pipes Provider, error: 0 - No process is on the other end of the pipe (the verbose part of the error message is left out). SQL Server agent is running both on the file server and the local computer. Also, named pipes and shared memory are enabled in file server and local computer (TCP and VIA protocoles are disabled). Same is done for Client protocoles. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I am using ssrs and vs2005 to develop reports.The deployed reports are placed in the source directory(c:source) and i am using a asp.net page with a button on it to generate a report in .Pdf format and after generation this Pdf document will be placed in a destination folder(c: arget).
Can anyone help me out in solving this or atleast direct me as how to go on with it?
I'm still trying to get a recent install/setup of Reporting Services 2005 working. I have Report Server installed on ServerA which already had IIS running on it, the Report Catalog can be found on a 2nd server, ServerB, with SQL 2005 Std Edition installed.
I am able to browse to the Reports Manager site and see the test report I deployed there through Visual Studio 2005, installed on my machine. But when I try to view the report, I get:
An error has occurred during report processing. Cannot create a connection to data source '[our db name]'. Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITYANONYMOUS LOGON'
Now, when I created the data source for that report, I used a Trusted Connection, which of course worked for me when authoring on my machine since I belong to a Windows group that has been granted access to the SQL Server and db in question.
Since Reports Mgr requires Windows authentication, I assumed that when attempting to view the report from within Reports Manager, it would again use my credentials. So I'm confused where the local system account, NT AUTHORITYANONYMOUS LOGON is coming from.
I have a report deployed on reporting serice. I am using reporting web service. How can we call the report, assign parameters and execute it on a webpage
we have SSRS and I've worked on my local PC and developed a report which connects to a database e.g. on server 3 with the credentials set as a particular SQL user. All works fine locally but as soon as I deploy the report to the report server (server 2), I receive the following error: Cannot create a connection to data source"
The database server records the following SQL error:"Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITYANONYMOUS LOGON'. Reason: Could not find a login matching the name provided."what I need to do to successfully run this from server 2? The fact it works locally fine means that the login is working ok I guess so I'm not sure what happens when it is transferred to the database server.The user is a SQL user rather than domain one and the user exists on SQL databases on both servers.
Greetings, I have a report that was previously deployed to a reporting services host (running Reporting Services 2005 SP2) and I'm running the version of Visual Studio that came with reporting services on the same reporting serviceshost. The deployed report was never opened on this particular server, so it doesn't appear in the recent files list. Is there a trick to open a deployed report in all of Visual Studio's report editing glory? Visual Studio has a File Open option to open an analysis services database, a project, or a file. A "deployed report" seems to be none of these options since it's an RDL file stored somewhere that IIS can find it. I know that I can use Report Manager and export the RDL for the report and then edit that RDL file in Visual Studio, but doing that appears to disable all of Visual Studio's report editing features (ie it works no better than notepad). What's the trick to get Visual Studio to open the deployed report and allow all of it's editing tools to work properly and then save the updated report back to the reporting services server?
When I deploy a report, and then browse to it with FireFox, I only see 2 inces of the report. I can scroll through the entire report, but only see the 2 inch window's worth at any time.
Its like the html element the report gets put into has a hard coded height, and doesnt auto size to show the eintire report.
I created and deployed a report to my Report Server and everything is functioning fine. However, my laptop was inadvertantly wiped when I was having it serviced and I had not backed up this report to VSS. Is there a way to import that deployed report back in to Visual Studio or do I have to basically rebuild my report from scratch?
I am using Reporting Services in the following way. The application implements a three tier Architecture viz Web Server, Application Server and Database Server. Reporting Services 2005 is installed on the Database Server.
The application uses ReportViewer Control which is part of an ASPX page deployed on the Web Server. For ReportViewer Control to fetch data from Reporting Services using RS API, we have to set ReportServerUrl and Report Path. In this scenario, the web server cannot communicate to the database server directly. The web server is in the DMZ and it can only communicate with the Application Server which is in a separate Network.
How can I use Report Viewer Control to fetch data from Reporting Services which is on the Database Server.
I am unable to display report header when I deploy the reports on report server (Internet). However, they look perfect when previewed in the BI studio. Any clue where could be the problem?
Adding a value to a non-queried default report parameter value does not update on the target server after deployment.
To recreate
1. Create a report in Visual Studio and add a report parameter with the following properties:
Multi-value is checked Available values = "From Query" Dataset = [create a dataset that returns a table w/ a Id and Description column] Value field = [the Id field from the table] Label field=[the Description column from the table] Default values = "Non-queried" (add several values the match the IDs from the table so that some of the values in the report dropdown will show up as checked when rendering the report)
2. Build and deploy the report to the reporting server. View the report and verify the specified items are checked in the report parameter.
3. Go back to Visual Studio and add a value to the Non-queried Default values.
4. Build and deploy the report again. View the report. The newly added item is not selected.
Notes
I verified that the newly added ID exists in the rdl file (as xml) on both the development box and the server where the report was deployed. However, when I view the report parameter using Management Studio (connect to the reporting server), the newly added value for the report parameter does not exist. I verified that changes are being deployed by adding new parameters and changing other properties of the parameter. I thought maybe the rdl itself was being cached somehow - I tried restarting IIS, SQL Server, and SQL Reporting services. None worked. Note that running the report on the development box by running the project through Visual Studio DOES reflect the change to the parameter.
Work-arounds
1. Create a dataset for the report that returns a table of the Ids that you want pre-selected. The query could be something like this:
SELECT '4' AS SelectedId UNION SELECT '5' AS SelectedId UNION SELECT '6' AS SelectedId
2. Delete the report in Management Studio, then redeploy.
I have issue w/ both workarounds because for 1) it is not intuitive and you have to remember to do this for every similar case, and 2) this extra step has to occur each time the report is deployed w/ changes to the report parameter.
Works fine in Visual Studio. Once deployed to SharePoint though, the drill through returns an error that says report can't be found. So I added the .rdl to the conditional statement in the report Design.
Hi All, I am not sure whether this is the right place to post this question. But I am unable to figure out what is the best solution to retrieve and display an image in a html file(stored in varbinary(max) column). I have a list of images in the file and I am supposed to display them. Can anybody please let me know what is the best way to do this? Thanks a lot!!
I have a parameter that chooses its available items from a query (with a label and a value column). I set the default for the parameter to the a particular value.
It works in Preview from design mode, but when I deploy it and run the report, it does not set the default.
I have an issue that hopefully someone can help me with. We have SQL server running in a 64 bit environment. We are running SQL Server 2005 SP2. The problem I am experiencing is that my SSIS script components produce the following error when the SSIS package is executed from the server.
Code: 0x00000003 Source: Set Perspective Connection Description: Precompiled script failed to load. The computer that is running the Script Task does not have a compiler capable of recompiling the script. To recompile the script, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article, KB931846 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=81885).
I have reviewed this article and everything points to SP2 as being the fix. Being that I am running SP2 there is something else going on. I was curious to see if anyone else has run into this issue with SP2.
I have a table with 10 rows with a varbinary column
I wish to concatenate all the binary column into a single binary column and then write that to another table within the database. This application splits a binary file (Word or PDF document) into multiple segments (this is Column2 as below)
1. Create table and 2 triggers with script below (*)
2. Run the following script:
use testjrl; begin transaction; update testtable set workphone = '333' where id = 1; rollback;
Get following error message:
(1 row(s) affected) Msg 2801, Level 16, State 1, Procedure trgTestTableInsertUpdate, Line 7 The definition of object 'trgTestTableInsertUpdate' has changed since it was compiled. The statement has been terminated.
3. Change trgTestTableInsertUpdate trigger to
alter table TestTable disable trigger trgTestTableDelete select 1 alter table TestTable enable trigger trgTestTableDelete
4. Run the script from step 2 again - works fine.
Questions:
a. Why does first error occur?
b. Why does error go away when you specify trigger name to disable?
Thanks Jim
*Script to create table and triggers:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TestTable]( [id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [WorkPhone] [nchar](10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_TestTable] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [id] ASC )WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY] ) ON [PRIMARY] GO
CREATE TRIGGER [dbo].[trgTestTableInsertUpdate] ON [dbo].[TestTable] FOR INSERT, UPDATE AS alter table TestTable disable trigger all select 1 alter table TestTable enable trigger all GO
CREATE TRIGGER [dbo].[trgTestTableDelete] ON [dbo].[TestTable] FOR DELETE AS select 1 GO
I have some stored procedure and there is a cursor inside it. I added some new columns to the table and those columns I included in the cursor declaration and fetch statement. In the cursor declaration I forgot to add comma (,) in between the new columns. So SQL Server it considers as a alias name for that column so syntactically it is correct. But logically in the cursor declaration having less number of columns than the columns in the fetch statement. So it should throw an error. But the procedure is getting compiled without raising any error. But if I execute the procedure that time it is throwing the error.
For example, below I have given the sample procedure. In this procedure, in the cursor declaration I removed the comma (,) between DOB and DOJ. If I compile this procedure it is getting compiled. But when execute that time only it is throwing the error. So I am interested in if any option is available to know the error in the compilation time itself.
ALTER PROCEDURE Test AS BEGIN BEGIN TRY
DECLARE @empId INT, @fname VARCHAR(50), @dob DATE, @doj DATE
I'm using a bit-wise comparison to effectively store multiple values in one column. However once the number of values increases it starts to become too big for a int data type.you also cannot perform a bitwise & on two binary datatypes. Is there a better way to store the binary data rather than int or binary?
