I would like to be able to change the formatting of groups of reports separately from the content of the report itself. Then if we decide to change the way we present our reports this can be changed in one central style type sheet or something similar. Is this easy to do? Is reporting services capable of this or am I using the wrong tool? Thanks
I've read that page before and it states "Modifying style sheets has no effect on the appearance of published reports that you run on a report server. In Reporting Services, reports do not reference style sheets." I wanted a way to be able to change the actual reports, not the report server interface.
Michael
2009-11-23 09:48:13
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That depend on what you mean by the formatting of reports. You can access and change the report manager and report toolbar style sheets. But the actual report formatting is not controlled by css. You could also embed the reports in a custom website but they would still render pretty much the same as they did in the Business Intelligence Development Studio.
jimconstable
2009-11-20 10:46:40
That would mean individually changing each report if a formatting requirement changed, which is unacceptable for the requirements I have.
Michael
2009-11-23 09:50:08
+1
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After some more research, the closest thing I have found is an elegant work around explained here using expressions that reference results a database. Not an ideal solution, and I think I will be using a different tool, perhaps a custom web application using a pre made .net chart object, like MSChart.
Michael
2009-11-23 10:05:23