When I write an expression for the visability of a cell, I am finding that the border disappears when Hide = True. I don't really want the cell to disappear, just the text contained within it. And I want the border to always show up. Any ideas how I can make this happen? Thanks, Lisa...more >>

could u say if there would be a problem with reporting services and microsoft exchange running on the same computer ...more >>

Does anyone know how to create a gradient for the background of a row. I know I can create a gradient bitmap and use that, but that seems like an inefficient way to go and may hurt performance. Any ideas? ...more >>

Ello folks... Question for you all - I'd like to make a call from a webpage (asp or aspx) that will call up a report with a given set of parameters, format it as a pdf or tiff file, and save it to a location. Any ideas? I know I can use the /ReportServer/ instance to directly call the rep...more >>

Do you know, with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, if I could use an item in the header section refers directly to a field. Thanks Sebastien...more >>

Is there an easier way to manage the table UI element on the report. For example in my report I have a table for the header info and the data, the data uses maybe 10 columns and we could be perhapps adding more columns (fields) to it in the future. The header uses 4 columns. It's a pain b...more >>

Is there anyway i can pass data between two datasets ex: dataset 1 has select empid, fname,lname ,salary from employee dataset2 has select userid ,total/(dataset1.salary) from anothertable here i want to use a value from dataset 1 in dataset 2. Thanks in advnce...more >>

Is there a good convention for naming the reports?Our clients like to see friend names for the reports like Fiscal yeay summary,....... and we'd like to use names like rptFiscalYearSum,........Is there some one who can give me some suggestions on this. Thanks ...more >>

Does there exist another possibility to develop RS Reports than using VS ..NET? I could enter XLS into notepad, yes :) but maybe anything more comfortable?? I have to know this for a study... Thanks...more >>

Even with Service Pack 2 (with or without RSClientPrint.dll) am I to understand that we still can't print from the Winforms platform/environment directly to a printer, it MUST go through a web page and then from a web page go directly to a Printer (of course with RSClientPrint ActiveX control,...more >>

Does anyone ever have an issue where reports stop responding and you have to restart IIS and the Report Services to get the reports to respond again? I notice that this happens when a report runs too long. Does anyone know of a fix? I am still on SP1 waiting for our QA department to allow us to ...more >>

Hey all, Cmon folks! There's got to be somebody else who is trying this! I have a report that is setup to be cached for 24 hours. I have also setup a data-driven subscription to dump all possible variations of the report to a file share in hopes that the first user to hit the report will n...more >>

Hi: We are using SRS to report from a DB2 database running on AS400's. It is working very well. Pushing ahead, we want to capture information on when certain reports (actually letters) are generated. The reports prompt for login credentials at run time. These DB2 database credentials ...more >>

In the Reporting Services Manager, when the user selects the folder where the reports reside there is a file that contains the connection string information along with a user name and password (Data Source). Is there a way to keep the file from being selected by the user ? Thanks....more >>

I have one report that uses "navigate" to another report through the data region field. This works fine in the development environment (i.e. visual studio), but when I deploy the reports and try it online on the live environment, the 2nd report does not even open - i.e. goes to 2nd report s...more >>

We have created a custom assembly that creates a FormAuthenticationTicket object. When calling the custom assembly from an expression for "Jump to URL", the preview returns "Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed" error message. The FormsAuthenticationTicket is in System.Web.Security, w...more >>

Hi, I hope anyone can help me with a problem I've been struggeling with for some days now? I have a matrix that should look like this. It has a couple of static columns at the beginning and variable ones (week numbers) at the end -----------------------------------------------------------...more >>

I've put a hyperlink on a report to send a message to the support center concerning service calls that are overdue for closure. How can I assign one of the report fields as the subject of the mail message? For instance, if the user clicks the 'Send Mail' link, the subject of the mail is "Cal...more >>

I have two different reports that share the same set of parameters. I created the first report, report 1, with the parameters. I create a link/image in Report 1 body that would invoke Report 2 (using navigation action property). Now whatever criteria (parameter values) the user had supplied t...more >>

Hi, I am very new to Reporting Service. I have a report wherein the data is being pulled from a stored procedure. I am able to design the report to point the report to the stored proc, but I am not able to see the fields that are referenced in the stored proc. What do I have to do to see th...more >>

Hi, I have developed a SSIS package which finally lands the data into DataReader Destination. How do I genarate a report from this datareader? What shud be my Dataconnection string? How to Access that Data? Plz reply asap. Swapna ...more >>

Hi, I'm totally new to reporting services (but worked with mdx/asy2k). Tried today to build RS reports to an AS database. First, is it true you have to make a whole mdx query (as in mdx sample application) to create the query string/dataset ? No help or wizard ? Second, is there a way to get ...more >>

I have really two questions to ask, I am writing my own front end and using WebServices to extract the information I need from the Reporting Server. I have all the Catalog information and it works well. But how do I get the Subscriptions information out? I would like to pull out the infor...more >>

I am trying to read the WebServices to gather information about the catalog. When I run the application from my development box and reading from the Reporting Services server for the Catalog all run fine. But when I transfer the application (asp.net) to the server it fails with: System.We...more >>

I'm working on reports, which base on queries retrieved with store procedure. Report consists of list of customers with different types of products sold to them. I'd like to present in a matrix only customers with for example product with code 1. When I had tried to use "filters" option ...more >>

I have to design a report that will have a dynamic number of columns, in a dynamic order. For example: items and a selection from their attributes ITEM Attr 1 Attr 2 Attr3 Attr 4 I1 5 Realy large text ......................more >>

Hi, I am working on reporting service and I don't know much about crystal = reports. I have got a formula in crystal report like this inside a group(this = group is grouped by ID) Sum(Employees.Salary,Employees.ID) Can anyone tell me what is equivalent formula in reporting service and ...more >>