Extending RDL & rendering -- sql server reporting services

Andrew
10/25/2005 3:48:10 PM

How can I add new elements to an RDL report definition and then render those
elements? For example, I'd like to add a new type of report (i.e. not a
table, matrix, list, or chart), and write the code to generate the rendering
of that particular type of element.

A further complication: the implementation of this new element would also
need to do the database queries, since it does not fit into the Reporting
Services model (i.e. getting a flattened dataset back)

Bruce L-C [MVP]
10/25/2005 8:31:58 PM

You can extend with a new renderer but you have to render the whole thing
yourself, which is not what you want. There is no way that I know of to
extend by adding new elements. You can definitely create a data processing
extension, that is not a problem.

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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services

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