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Reporting Services Tip #1

I've been working on SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services for the past couple of weeks.  I plan on blogging about my experience by providing tips.

Reporting Services Tip #1:

If you've created a report that you would like to deploy to a server without using Report Designer, you can upload the rdl file in Report Manager.

We've got a disconnected network where we can not connect to production except through the web application, Citrix, or by walking down to the production server room.  This means that we can not deploy the reports through Report Designer from our own desktop.  So, all that we need to do is copy our rdl and rds files to production then upload them to Reporting Services using Report Manager.  To see the upload file option, go to http://hostname/reports.

It's too bad that you can't upload multiple files using wild cards.  I thought about adding the reports by adding them to the appropriate tables in the ReportServer database, but I am just not interested in that headache right now since I've got a manageable number of reports at the moment.

You can also delete your reports in Report Manager.  Just navigate to the report, then click Show Details.  The RS toolbar changes when the details are shown.  You should now see a Delete and Move option.

Legacy Comments


Thomas Williams
2004-05-18
re: Reporting Services Tip #1
Hey Tara - I went to a presentation in Melbourne, Australia about Reporting Services last night, maybe for your problem look into a tool called "rs.exe" which runs ".rss" script files (written in VB.NET) and allows you to create folders, set permissions, and upload RDL files. The guy demonstrated it last night: see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/rsamples/htm/rss_sampleapps_v1_1apd.asp

I hope this helps!

Brian Sherwin
2004-05-20
re: Reporting Services Tip #1
Since you have access to the Report Manager, do you have access to the Reporting Services Web Service. If so, you can use the web service to upload the RDL directly from code, either via script, or a custom VB app.

John
2004-07-28
re: Reporting Services Tip #1
I am using reporting services WS but I don't know how to get the toolbar to show when the content is returned from SOAP API.

John
2004-07-28
re: Reporting Services Tip #1
I am using reporting services WS but I don't know how to get the toolbar to show when the content is returned from SOAP API.
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Saravanan
2004-08-03
re: Reporting Services Tip #1
I would recommend you to use reportviewer webcontrol that comes with reporting service.... it works like a charm

Saravanan
2004-08-03
re: Reporting Services Tip #1
You can get this webcontrol in this folder...
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\Samples\Applications\ReportViewer

John
2004-10-26
re: Reporting Services Tip #1

the report viewer is just an IFrame and works if you call your reports directly (not using web services).
FYI, I ended up writing my own web control that would use SOAP for calling reporting services.
There is only one issue that I am having is with "drill down" functionality, that is a bug and hopefully will be fixed by the next release.

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Vishal Vidhale
2006-02-22
re: Reporting Services Tip #1
Hi,

This is vishal vidhale.I would like to know how can i show my reports on web pages by using Report Server then and then my client see all reports.

If it is possible then please give me solution as soon as possible because now i am hang out.

Thanks & Regards,
Vishal Vidhale
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Tara
2006-02-22
re: Reporting Services Tip #1
It sounds like you need to get a good book about Reporting Services. Have you developed the reports yet?

Uday Shankar
2006-03-06
re: Reporting Services Tip #1
Hi
This is Uday working in Infosys.I would like to know how to achieve drill down reports.

Raja
2006-05-19
re: Reporting Services Tip #1
Hi Guys,

I have got a unique requirement in reporting service. I have 3 parameters(name,privilege,privilegeinfo) in my report which is to be received through a web service. I just want to know whether it is possible to inculcate this if the users are going to view the reports using the URL (eg. http://hostname/reports)??? Since there is inbuilt security for RS it would be great if the above scenario can be accomplished.Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Regards,
Raja

Dinesh
2006-06-23
re: Reporting Services Tip #1
I am a Quality Engineer. I have been working on testing the reports created using Reporting Services. For the performace figures like 'how much time is required for execution of particualr report?' that i am taking from ExecutionLog table of ReportServer Database. But the problem is the time taken for execution of report is not same although we execute the same report with the same parameter and with the sane database. It has lots of variations in timings. I have tries restarting services before taking exact time? but its of no use. Can anybody guide me to take the exact timings (consistency) for the same report execution?