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Problem of "Export to Excel" for "Chart" within "Matrix"
Posted by Tony at 11/15/2005 7:56:01 PM
Hi Please help to fix the following problem. I design a report using a matrix to show the Sales data. Within the matrix, I want to use a Bar Chart to show some the data. Preview and Export to pdf format is ok and does not have any problem. However, I get the error message "Specified Cast ...more >>


Erroneous error in Reporting Services Configuration Manager (2005)
Posted by Daniel G. at 11/15/2005 5:17:03 PM
I'm attempting to setup reporting services 2005 on a system that has never had reporting services installed and has a previous SQL 2000 (sp4) instance. This server is running Windows 2000 SP4. In the Reporting Services Configuration Manager I have successfully have completed (check marks) ...more >>

2005 RS Manager "Unable to connect to the remote server"
Posted by Rob G at 11/15/2005 2:19:03 PM
Windows 2003 (latest serv pack) SQL 2005 Standard Full Release (Not beta) I'm logged in as Administrator accessing on local machine the report manager. I am having problems getting past this error. I've tried everything possible to reconfigure in the Report Service Configuration. Everything l...more >>

I18N and L10N Support in SSRS
Posted by siva.jasthi NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 11/15/2005 1:59:48 PM
hello - can some one point me to any white papers or articles on multi-language support in SSRS? what are the best practices and tools we need to consider while designing and deploying the reports that serve users in different locales? thanks - jasthi ...more >>

Poor performance when accessing reports through URL
Posted by blabore at 11/15/2005 1:59:02 PM
When viewing reports through the ReportServer application, I typically can get response times that are between 5 and 10 seconds for my reports (in pdf format). However, when I attempt to just view the report directly using a URL (with the appropriate arguments supplied), the reponse time is us...more >>

VS crashes when changing new MDX-report
Posted by Ralph Watermann at 11/15/2005 1:49:58 PM
Hi, we created a little report against the Analysis Services Tutorial cube an the preview works fine. We save the project. Then change something, for example the title in the layout, an click preview again -> "Microsoft Visual Studio has encountered a problem and needs to close". Re-open...more >>

IsMultiValue / Join - Problem
Posted by Ralph Watermann at 11/15/2005 11:28:44 AM
Hi, we try to pass a parameter to a "universal" assembly function but do not know in advance if the parameter is multivalue or not. So we tried the following: (the function returns an MDX-query-String to retrieve the dataset): =Assembly.Function( IIF(Parameters!Para1.IsMultiValue, Join...more >>

Localization Controls
Posted by Dan Krish at 11/15/2005 9:28:10 AM
Does Report Designer support Localization or Internationlization controls? E.g. when you a run a report which has currency column the report designer should format the column with the currency format present in the system's control panel (Regional Settings)...more >>



Cascading Parameters error
Posted by midlander at 11/15/2005 9:11:11 AM
I am new to SQL Reporting services - (3 weeks in fact) I have a report that uses cascading parameters down 2 levels I select from a dropdown which populates the second dropdown. I then select from the second drop down list. There are three more parameters to be entered in by the user - (...more >>

Capabilities Question
Posted by matchbx at 11/15/2005 8:22:02 AM
I am very new to SQL Reporting Services and trying to determine it's capabilities. I developed a data-entry application. This application has extensive business logic that summarizies and formats the data from the database (including many calculations that I would rather not repeat in an...more >>

Named and UnNamed parameters
Posted by Vinny Vinn at 11/15/2005 8:17:05 AM
While creating a report i am running into a problem with parameters. When building the query i would like to use the same parameter more then once. for instance : select * from table where field = @parameter1 and field = @Parameter1 and field = @parameter1 I can runs this Que...more >>

Web Services with parameters Urgent help
Posted by Rachel at 11/15/2005 6:31:04 AM
Hi all, I was able to succesfully get the webservice working on methods which does not require any parameters. But when i call some other web service with parameters i followed the same method given in Reporting services help only with the change of sending parameters with the same name as...more >>

How to render images in .Render() ?
Posted by Philip York at 11/15/2005 5:34:06 AM
Hi, I was wondering how do I render the images that are referenced within the resulting HTML of a report? I notice from the Render method it returns, in an out parameter, an array of stream ids that correspond to the individual resources within the report, ie image files. How do I render...more >>

RS2000: Multiple formats in one textbox?
Posted by Octavius NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 11/15/2005 5:31:39 AM
Is it possible to apply multiple formats (such as bold some of the text, but not all of it) within one textbox? I guess this would essentially be like bolding a few words in an HTML document, but not the entire line/div. Thanks. ...more >>

Cheapest way to purchase SQL Reporting Services
Posted by mark_menzies at 11/15/2005 3:59:04 AM
Within my department we have 1 copy of of vb studio.net standard and 2 copies of vb studio.net enterprise and run sql server 2000. One of the guys is writing a system which I have to report on using SQL Reporting Services. As I don't have any .net product, do I have to purchase a ..net produc...more >>

How execute an iterative select to produce a report
Posted by Pasquale at 11/15/2005 2:50:10 AM
For a report, I need to extract rows from two joined tables for a particular value assigned to a field code in clause "where". This report is particular. One of the two tables contains a field which value indicates the number of times to execute the select from the two tables. I use a stored ...more >>

How to drilldown in SOAP-rendered reports
Posted by Ralph Watermann at 11/15/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi, we tried the SQLRS-ReportViewer from the We changed the necessary things to get it to work with the new 2005 web services. But now we wonder how we can handle drilldowns. In the 2000 versions of the web services there was an url-parameter showhidetoggle which seemed to be the candida...more >>

Disappearing Datasets (MDX) in Report Designer
Posted by Ralph Watermann at 11/15/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi, we encountered a lot of problems with MDX-Datases in the CTP-verisons, but now it's even worse! We designed a little report against one of our cubes with only one Dataset and immediate preview and saved it immediately. The report worked fine. Then we clicked on the Dataset tab, and t...more >>


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