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all groups > sql server reporting services > may 2005 > threads for thursday may 5

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Open New Window for Action
Posted by Jono Indrawijaya at 5/5/2005 9:42:01 PM
I wonder if I can automatically pop-up a new window if I click Action (hyperlink) in a report. Any suggestion will be welcomed. Thank You. -- Regards, Jono Indrawijaya PT eBiz Cipta Solusi - Indonesia Microsoft Certified Partner...more >>

Use Progress bar instead of "default circle" during report view
Posted by Jammer at 5/5/2005 5:37:13 PM
Hey peeps, I am trying to know if there is a way to keep a progress bar instead of the default circling image during report load up. Please share your ideas and suggestions...more >>

Will RS 2005 reduce need for data extension to render native dataset
Posted by JJA at 5/5/2005 3:12:50 PM
Will the new version of RS 2005 support natively reporting ADO.NET datasets, allowing us to "bind" a datatable of an ADO.NET dataset to the .RDL layout? As I understand it, to render a report from a dataset dynamically through web services you have to implement a data extension. My web app ...more >>

Report Viewer
Posted by Chris Arnold at 5/5/2005 2:30:11 PM
Is there a report viewer that I can use in a windows based application, not a web application. If there is, where can I find it....more >>

A connection could not be made to the Report Server
Posted by Alicia at 5/5/2005 2:28:08 PM
When I try to deploy a report, I received the message "A connection could not be made to the Report Server" Someone knows the solution?...more >>

Forcing page breaks
Posted by Stan at 5/5/2005 2:10:01 PM
Hello, Apologies if this is a silly question. I am using Reporting services with ODBC to convert print image text files into pdb files. Each record/line of the file has one character code then the data for the line of the report. I used odbc to describe the file to have 2 columns. The ...more >>

Variances in a matrix?
Posted by Becker at 5/5/2005 12:16:02 PM
Is there anyway to show a column of variances between the columns in a matrix? The report I'm thinking is like this: Q1 Var Q2 Var Q3 Var Q4 Var Sales 10 - 20 100% 15 -25% 20 33% ...more >>

No Custom Controls in 2003?
Posted by CraigZello at 5/5/2005 11:58:01 AM
If i'm understanding some previous posts by Robert Bruckner, you really can't do extensive or fancy custom controls in RS. Is the following to fancy? I have a integer field which tracks contact method (Email, Fax, Mail, or any combination of the 3). Depending on what this number is, will d...more >>



Bar Chart missing Data Label
Posted by Tarik Peterson at 5/5/2005 11:57:54 AM
When rendering a report programatically, the Bar Chart that is displayed is missing the Data Label for the last bar in the chart. If I change the chart type to Pie or Column, the label shows fine. This problem does not occur in the initial install, but does occur with SP 1 and SP 2. Is ...more >>

Viewing and editing the Reports created by others.
Posted by krishna at 5/5/2005 11:19:12 AM
Hi, Is there anyone who can put me some light on, how to view and edit the reports created by others. Because all the code will be on thier machine only. So how to open the present report in designer. Thanks in advance. Krishna. ...more >>

Installation Issue
Posted by Dan Slaby at 5/5/2005 10:24:02 AM
I have installed SQL Reporting in the default web site and added a virtual directorys (same names) pointing to the same Reporting Services folders in a virtual web (external DNS; I don't open the root to internet access). I've tried using both the default app pool and the virtual web app pool...more >>

Sort by different field
Posted by Ray5531 at 5/5/2005 10:21:35 AM
I have a dataset in my report which I like to have a sort by option on it.I'd like the user choses which field he wants to order by the result and then the report is rendered based on that.Is ther a way to do it in the report rather than doing it in the stored procedure behind the report? T...more >>

My Report Manager Broke "The underlying connection was closed"
Posted by neokortex at 5/5/2005 9:45:28 AM
Our company recently re-located the servers and somehow in the process of disconnecting -> reconnecting the Report Server the Report Manager now cannot be run. All we get is the error: "The underlying connection was closed: Unable to connect to the remote server." Interestingly, this aff...more >>

Decimal place MIA
Posted by Chris Patten at 5/5/2005 9:31:04 AM
I have a field which has a decimal place in the query results in report designer, but on a table in the report it doesn't show the decimal place. So a 10.5 shows as just 10. I already use the cint function to convert it from string to int, but that doesn't help. This was working, and I'm no...more >>

RS Subscription Failures
Posted by Brent at 5/5/2005 9:20:05 AM
RS Subscriptions are generating the following errors for some (not all) subscriptions: Failure sending mail: The Report Server has encountered a configuration error; more details in the log files The only difference I can see between our working subscriptions and the non working subscript...more >>

Changing the width of table column based on data returned
Posted by Greg Larsen at 5/5/2005 8:54:03 AM
I would like to size the width of a table column to be big enough for the data being returned. I don't seem to be able to use and expression for the width parameter. How might I dynamically resize the with of table columns?...more >>

SP2 Client Printing Problem Solved
Posted by General_Patton at 5/5/2005 8:44:28 AM
Maybe this was mentioned before but I thought I'd throw this out there... There are a lot of posts about the new client printing in Sp2. I was having many problems getting it to work properly. Tried redeploying, made sure margins and layout was right etc... I had problems with extra blank ...more >>

SP2 Print - fit to page possible?
Posted by kbradfor at 5/5/2005 8:39:27 AM
My users have a report that is wider than legal size - they have been exporting to excel and telling excel to fit it to one page wide on legal paper. Is there a way to do this using the SP2 print control? I havent been able to find it... Thanks....more >>

SP doesn't show field list
Posted by Catadmin at 5/5/2005 7:41:19 AM
I have 2 stored procedures which I am using in two different datasets. One has no input parameter, and when I add it to my reports, it shows the field list (it uses a select statement at the end and has no output param specificially defined). When I add the 2nd SP (either alone or in conju...more >>

Sub Select
Posted by Timothy forde at 5/5/2005 7:39:42 AM
I have to create a report based off of a query. This query needs to contain a sub select statement as follows. select feilda from tableA where fieldb not in (select feilda from tableb where fieldb <> @Value) the problem is reporting services keeps throwing the following error. Parameter...more >>

what the Version of reporting services to be installed on testing
Posted by Joe at 5/5/2005 7:34:02 AM
Dear all, should i install sql server developer edition in the testing server or other version? Then what version of reporting services need to install into the testing server? Thanks ...more >>

SP2 not installing
Posted by scuba79 at 5/5/2005 7:32:03 AM
I'm trying to install Reporting Services Service Pack 2 on a Win 2003 Server and I keep getting the following message "The SQL setup failed to connect to the database service for server configuration.", while it's in the gathering information stage. The installation stalls and then finall...more >>

Conditionally hide group footer in Sql server reporting services
Posted by Joseph Huddleston at 5/5/2005 6:35:42 AM
I have a report that contains two date field parameters, StartDate and EndDate. The report returns one record per date per group within the date range. When the StartDate and EndDate are equal, I would like to supress or hide the group footer. Since I return only one row per date per group,...more >>

linked reports and datasource
Posted by Myles at 5/5/2005 6:27:18 AM
with sp2 is it possible to change the datasource for linked reports, or is that still in development? thanks,...more >>

Install report server in msde
Posted by Joe at 5/5/2005 6:21:02 AM
Dear all, Is this possible to install report server in msde If not, i am a new in reporting services, is it possible to develop and test just install the report designer?...more >>

Quarterly Schedule Fails
Posted by John Broomfield at 5/5/2005 6:18:05 AM
My data driven report has been scheduled to send last quarters data on the fifth day of a new quarter. I set the schedule to send: Monthly for: Jan, April, July, Oct and on Calendar Day: 5 at 2am. For some reason I received the report today, which happens to be May 5. What am I doing wr...more >>

ASP Memory Crash
Posted by William Foster at 5/5/2005 4:21:03 AM
Hi all, I am running reporting services on a dedicated server with 2GB of memory, when ever a report is run that contains over 90,000 records the server crashes and restarts. We have looked at the reports, and are to reduce the criteria range to make smaller reports, but it then affects rol...more >>

Using Reporting in web apps
Posted by rpokh at 5/5/2005 3:40:02 AM
Can we use it to create adhoc reports in web apps?...more >>

Error Creating Performance Counters
Posted by Andy B at 5/5/2005 3:30:02 AM
I have installed SQL Reporting Services and sucessfully deployed a couple of reports but I get lots of errors in the Application Event Log like: "The report server cannot create the xxxxxx performance counter" One error for each of the possible performance counters. Anybody any idea what I ne...more >>

Custom Report Header and footer
Posted by Malkesh Sheth via SQLMonster.com at 5/5/2005 12:00:00 AM
Hi, We have very specific requirement for Header and footer in which company logo is there.But it can be changable like when i change it for one plcae all the existing report's header and footer should be changed. How could i achieve this.Also Style for header and footer should be same for a...more >>

SP2 Printing question..
Posted by AshVsAOD at 5/5/2005 12:00:00 AM
Whenever I print direct from Report Manager the document defaults to Letter size paper. Default in Australia is A4. Can I set this anywhere? Thanks. ...more >>

Data feeding a report is cached between different calls for a session?
Posted by David Lightman Robles at 5/5/2005 12:00:00 AM
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.818 + Reporting Services SP2 We have created a report (for invoices) that is usually called to render pdf files (for quality) but can also be rendered into tif files (lower quality). The front end program for users is written in Access 2003 with a SQL Serve...more >>


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