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Optional filtering by parameter
Posted by Dmitry Duginov at 10/31/2007 2:13:05 PM
Can anybody suggest the easy way to add an optional parameter to the report? Example: Without this "feature" the report contains records for the groups A, B, C, etc. I'd like to add the parameter "SingleGroup". By default it is null and the report should work exactly as before. If I set the v...more >>


loading a report in a windows application using reportviewer
Posted by billyburditt NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 10/31/2007 10:56:13 AM
I have a windows application which displays a remote report using the reportviewer. It works fine except on the form load it runs the report. I rather the report just display instead of running. This is a problem for two reasons: 1. My report has parameters. Since no parameters have been ...more >>

Creating SSRS folders?
Posted by jobs at 10/31/2007 10:13:45 AM
New ssrs istall. When I attempt to open report manager, i just get SQL Server Reporting Services Home with no option for creating a folder etc, like i have on development When I attempt to deploy to ther server I get : Deploying to http://amsqlclusterxx/reportserver/ Error rsItemAlr...more >>

Speed up software.
Posted by Scott Burke at 10/31/2007 9:59:07 AM
I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to write my reports. When I run the reports in VS it takes forever to run. I checkec the task manager and the System Idle Process is 70% while the reports are being processed. Question: Does anyone else have this problem? Does Microsoft Visual Studio 200...more >>

Change Subreport Name while running
Posted by Harry Leboeuf at 10/31/2007 9:46:37 AM
Is there a way to change the subreport name while running a report. Depending on the user that runs the main report i would like to present another subreport. The subreportname can't be changed by an expression. I could place all subreports on it and then hide the ones that arn't needed but...more >>

Can't deploy report on the reporting server
Posted by andys at 10/31/2007 9:26:00 AM
Please help - I am trying to deploy report on the server - getting following: =================================== A connection could not be made to the report server http://169.35.137.96/ReportServer/. (Microsoft Report Designer) =================================== The server committ...more >>

Chart error: Parameter is not valid
Posted by Rolf Smeds at 10/31/2007 5:52:03 AM
Hi, I'm using Reporting Services 2005, trying to design a report in Visual Studio 2005. I have a chart in the report that seems to work just fine when I test it with Preview. However, every now and then, if I change some trivial detail in the chart properties, such as the title font, ...more >>

SQL SERVER 2003 - Report Server
Posted by Logger at 10/30/2007 4:22:01 PM
Does Microsoft keep a previous version of the .rdl if you deploy a report in Visual studio 2003? If so, how do you retrieve it? ...more >>



How to add a calender with a user parameter
Posted by rampaleee NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 10/30/2007 3:11:33 AM
Hello evry one, Can any one help me how to add a calender as a list of values,to an user parameter in reports. I am passing a parameter called effective date. for that parameter i need calender as a list of value. Please any one help on this.. thanks Balaji ...more >>

Image not displayed in report
Posted by Kirk at 10/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
I am creating a very simple report in VS 2005. I dragged an image control to the report surface and set it's value property to the virtual path of my image (like "~/SubPage/Trademark.jpg"). However, the image is never displayed - either at design time, when the report viewer runs, or when the ...more >>

How to Block a System Administrator in RS
Posted by Harry Leboeuf at 10/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
My machine is in a domain. The local group Administrators had a member that is the Domain Admins. Our Tech Support has configured this like that. Now, in the Home directory i've deleted the BUILTIN\Administrators from the users and groups that can access the tree. Even on some directories i'v...more >>

Excel Report - Large File
Posted by Madhan Raj J at 10/29/2007 10:46:01 PM
SQL Server 2005 reporting service is being used to generate a large excel report with about 30,000 rows. The size of file generated is ~15MB. but if the same file is opened in Excel 2003 and saved back in XLS format itself, the size of the file reduces to approximately 50% of the original size...more >>

Reporting Services - Local Report - Memory & Session Usage
Posted by Antony at 10/29/2007 8:19:00 PM
Hello there, I'm currently experiencing some issues with Reporting Services' ReportViewer Control. When running the control without a Reporting Server in 'Local' processing mode we cannot serve very many simultaneous requests. Worse, if a single user opens several reports one after the oth...more >>

Published Report Not Showing Correctly in Report Manager webpage
Posted by RBS at 10/29/2007 11:56:02 AM
have a report that in the designer in Visual Studio it displays correctly on the preview tab. The report has 5 subreports and one of the subreports is a matrix. On the report I have a parameter for the user to choose rather to see the matrix subreport or not. When I view the rep...more >>

I want duplicates in my matrix!
Posted by Mike Austin at 10/29/2007 10:41:13 AM
I have a very simple report that allows users to extract data to an excel spreadsheet and work with it. It consists of a single matrix with 3 row groups, 1 column group and 1 "fact" cell. When it is run, either in preview or deploy mode, the report is hiding duplicate values in the first colum...more >>

Using parent datatable row in the report table object
Posted by Sanjin at 10/29/2007 7:32:00 AM
I have the dataset with the following tables, Products and OrderDetails. The structure (simplified): CREATE TABLE [dbo].[OrderDetails] ( [Id] [int] NOT NULL , [ProductId] [int] NOT NULL , [Quantity] [numeric](18, 2) NOT NULL , [Price] [numeric](18, 2) NOT NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GO CREATE T...more >>

Dynamic Parameters
Posted by brinda.shree NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 10/29/2007 1:58:46 AM
I need to build a report in which every field of the dataset acts as a Parameter to filter data in the report, so that the user is not binded only to a fixed set of filters. Based on the datatype of the filter; the condition should be specified and the user will only supply the value for which...more >>

Reporting Server Subscription Issue
Posted by Ram at 10/28/2007 8:59:00 PM
Dear All, We are facing some issue in reporting service subscriptions. In one of the server when We create subscription to save or send report, Its giving below error. But reports works fine directly from the report manager. ERROR: Failure sending mail: An error has occurred during r...more >>

What and Where is report manager? and how can I delete reports?
Posted by jobs at 10/28/2007 5:37:55 PM
duh I know. I'm on the reportserver as administrator. I'm looking sql mgt studio and iis, I know reports and folders are there somewhere, but can't see them. Thanks for any help or information. ...more >>

SSRS report folders?
Posted by jobs at 10/28/2007 4:11:41 PM
I am making change to a report and believe I am correctly deploying it to an ssrs report folder per the messages I get back from vs.net. Question is, how can I see what folders are available? and where? At some point I knew or was able to do this, and think it was through SQL server since I ca...more >>

accessing reports via application
Posted by Monet at 10/28/2007 2:44:23 AM
Hi, Does anyone know how I can limit SS report access only through our application? Thanks. SSRS Standard Edition ...more >>

Hyperlink on a report to download a file
Posted by Alain Quesnel at 10/27/2007 5:54:13 PM
I have an XML field (of type XML) in my report's underlying table. I want to display a hyperlink in my report. When the user clicks on this hyperlink, I want them to be able to save the xml value as an XML file on disk (i.e. "Save File As" in MSIE). Has anyone tried this? Thank you, --...more >>

Password Parameter?
Posted by jobs at 10/27/2007 7:56:18 AM
Hello. I've got an odd requirement to password a particular report.Basically the same authenticated user will have access to all reports, but this particular report should only be available to select users(all which share that username). Any way to mask an ssrs parameter input so that it on...more >>

Please help me install RS on Vista Business 64bit
Posted by Clive at 10/26/2007 6:09:51 PM
SS2005 64bit is installed and running fine on my copy of Vista Business 64 here I've gone into Programs and Features and enabled all the IIS/ASP.NET stuff posted on the internet. I've also created a IWAM_computername account and added it to the Administrators group. The setup program ...more >>

New export option
Posted by asflp at 10/26/2007 5:12:18 PM
Hello Fellow RS Has anyone ever heard of or tried adding to the report export list? I've read through the BOL for report export options and searched the web for advice. There is quite a bit of information folks have shared on ways to export stored procedure results to a fixed length text f...more >>

Chart in Subreport in Table - wrong data is charted
Posted by Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP] at 10/26/2007 2:39:17 PM
I have a report that contains a single chart. That report works fine by itself, and as a subreport in many other contexts, but... When I use that report as a sub-report inside a table, passing all of the parameters to the sub-report based on values from the current row of the table... T...more >>

Cannot create subscriptions from Management Studio
Posted by Dmitry Duginov at 10/26/2007 1:53:02 PM
I cannot create any subscriptions from Management Studio. Reports have shared Data Source with stored credentials SQL Agent is up and running In surface area configuration "Scheduling and delivery" for SSRS are enabled SSRS Execution account has been set up E-mail settings are fine I'm logge...more >>

invalid character when I browse Reports
Posted by dba at 10/26/2007 11:58:15 AM
When I go to inetmgr => Web Sites => Reports The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A...more >>

Retrieving scanned images
Posted by Mickey N at 10/26/2007 8:34:02 AM
Hi all I have a scenario where I need to retrieve scanned images for a report. The plan is to have one page showing items submitted from a table and the remaining pages producing the linked scanned images. the scanned images will probably be PDF or data held in XML format. I am thinking th...more >>

Adding subreport values
Posted by Jeppe Jespersen at 10/26/2007 12:00:00 AM
I have a _very_ simple table with just one row and three columns. The first column of the row contains a subreport that retrieves a single value. The second column of the row contains a subreport that retrieves a single value. ....and heres where I lose it... :-) The third column sho...more >>

reporting services add-in for WSS
Posted by shikarishambu at 10/25/2007 5:44:12 PM
I am having issues installing the reporting services addin for sharepoint. While the installer claims the install was successful, I do not see the features in Sharepoint Central Administration. A look at the install log shows that the install failed. I am logged in as administrator, this ac...more >>

How to Programatically get a Report in PDF format from SSRS
Posted by IfThenElse at 10/25/2007 3:34:05 PM
Hi, I have a report with parameters and need to get it via C# in PDF Format. Need an example that works. Thank you, ...more >>

Testing after new installation
Posted by Mark Goldin at 10/25/2007 2:05:05 PM
I have freshly installed new OS and SQL 2005 with Reporting Services. When I try to navigate to ReportManager I am getting "Cannot connect to remote server" message. What can the problem be? Thanks ...more >>

Subreport nuttiness
Posted by beener at 10/25/2007 1:50:21 PM
I'm working on SSRS 2000 to start off with. I have a subreport that takes one parameter. It worked beautifully until I had to change my result set to include records that did not always have the necessary value for the parameter so my parameter went from.. parameter = fieldname To para...more >>

user account used to deploy a report to reporting Server
Posted by irish_archer68 at 10/25/2007 11:26:14 AM
Hello everyone. I am still trying to get SQL Reporting Services to work with MSPS 2007. When I create a report and try to deploy it, I am prompted for a user name and password to connect to the reporting Server. I am working in the microsoft EPM2007 demo environment and am trying to use the f...more >>

Multiple Columns Not Wrapping
Posted by Don Miller at 10/25/2007 11:08:52 AM
I want to create a report with two columns with a single group heading with one table. I will use this as a subreport in a larger report consisting of single column tables. When I layout the report it shows two columns but when I preview the report it is just one long half-size column and neve...more >>

How can I protect my parameters?
Posted by nicknack at 10/25/2007 9:54:27 AM
Hello. I have a report with parameter called "parm1", that gets a value of "true" or "false" depanding on another parameter. When the report is runnig the parm1 value is "false". How can I protect this parameter from a change by the user? I mean - the user can run the report and then add to t...more >>

Change the Parameter in an query
Posted by Scott Burke at 10/25/2007 9:50:00 AM
I have a report "Clearance Summary Report: Each page summarized the total sales for one agency. Everything works great except for one total "Adjustments:" An agency can have one order but have 50 adjustments to that order. That is why the Adjustments can not be included in the "dsReport" que...more >>

Size limitations of Code Editor in MRS
Posted by iamscott at 10/25/2007 8:28:01 AM
Hi All, we have a little over 1000 lines of functions and code an we maxed out the code editor, and can't add any more lines. Any workarounds or suggestions? Thanks, Scott...more >>

SSRS Multi-Value parameters with Stored Procedures
Posted by at 10/25/2007 8:27:07 AM
I've figured out how to send multi-value parameters to my stored procedure using a split function when my parameter is an integer. However I need to do the same thing with a character parameter. It works for the first value, but that's it. Here's the function that I found: USE [EdCat] GO /...more >>

Internationalization Support in SSRS 2005
Posted by nisha at 10/25/2007 6:20:52 AM
Hi, I am analyzing the internationalization support in SSRS 2005. I have the following queries. Query #1 Does Report Builder have internationalization support? a)If the browser language setting is french, will the report builder display french automatically? b) Or is the localization feat...more >>

Requiring / Trapping the View Report button
Posted by jobs at 10/25/2007 4:48:47 AM
I would like to require that the users select the "view report" button before the report renders. How can I do that? Also, can I trap the event for when that button is selected? how/ where? Thank you. ...more >>

Putting Data In Report Footer
Posted by b-cubed NO[at]SPAM hotmail.co.uk at 10/25/2007 3:06:00 AM
Hi, We have a field in our dataset which we want to appear in the footer of each page in our report. To do this, we have added a textbox to the body of the report and reference this data in the footer using the following: =ReportItems!site_code.Value This works fine, except when the re...more >>

distributed queries
Posted by frankie lo at 10/25/2007 12:00:00 AM
Hi all, Do you know that can we use 'distributed queries' in reporting services to create rdl report or use linked server as datasource. please advise if any direction, many thanks. e.g. SELECT s.sales_amount FROM access_server...region AS r, oracle_server..sales_owner.sale AS s, sql_serv...more >>

Sum Certain Rows
Posted by teddy at 10/25/2007 12:00:00 AM
Hi I need some help with this case. I have the sample report like this: No# Desc Amount 1 Quantity1 (Pcs) 10 2 Quantity2 (Pcs) 15 3 Price1 ($) 800 4 Price2 ($) 200 Total ($) 1025 I want to get th...more >>

report server problem
Posted by Andrew Backer at 10/25/2007 12:00:00 AM
I have installed SQL 2005 reporting services and I configured it using Reporting Services Configuration. Now I tried to access to report manager using http://servername/Reports with login I used to start reporting services. It doesn't work and keep prompting me for login and password. But no use...more >>

collapsing address lines (remove blank lines)
Posted by mlafarlett NO[at]SPAM yahoo.com at 10/24/2007 10:34:13 PM
Well I've seen several related posts but nothing seems to exactly fit what I need. I real new to RS so bare with me. What I have is a stored procedure that returns several elements of an address per row. For instance, Name1, Name2, Name3, Street1, Street2, CityStateZip. What I need is to colla...more >>

SSRS 2005 sp2 integration with WSS 3.0
Posted by shikarishambu at 10/24/2007 6:28:40 PM
I have followed the steps outlined in http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/attachment/4194088.ashx to try integrate my WSS 3.0 and SSRS 2005 sp2 instance. While the reporting services configuration says I am in Sharepoint integrated mode and it takes me to the sharepoint central admininstration...more >>

Determining if SQL Server Reporting Services is Installed
Posted by rmcompute at 10/24/2007 4:38:01 PM
My company has SQL Server 2000 and is currently upgrading to SQL Server 2005. Is there an easy way to determine if the Reporting Services module is installed. I have access to Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer. Is it possible to use either of these tools to see if it is installed?...more >>

Multi-Value Parameter Width in Reporting Services 2005
Posted by Ron at 10/24/2007 1:53:02 PM
Does anyone know of a way to control the width of the parameter drop down in Reporting Services 2005? When a parameter is not multi-value the width is adjusted to the largest member, but when the parameter is multivalue it appears to be a fixed length regardless of member size. The result ...more >>


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