reporting

What are pros/cons to DevExpress Reports?

I'm looking for a new reporting tool and DevExpress XtraReports look pretty good. I didn't find any discussion on them so here we go. Have you found any problems with the report format, and saving reports to a database? Any common performance problems? How well does the end user report designer work? How does it fare against SSRS? (...

Fitting the Report in one page when printing from report viewer

Hi all, I already went through this thread regarding the issue which has good explanation. But my problem is that i'm not able to change the width of the report body. It is currently set to 11in wide 5.125in tall. But when i try to change the width to 9.5 it is not getting changed and it is assigning the width itself back to 11in. So th...

Ruport vs. Prawn considering long-term use

I want to add reporting capabilities to my Rails application and I'm struggling quite some time now on which reporting software to use to create my PDF documents. Until now I'm pretty sure that either Ruport or Prawn are the best way to go. After experimenting with both of them I find that they both are very powerful and quite universa...

Non text values not showing up in ms report control

Non text values not showing up in ms report control I created a new MS report for my MS report control in asp.net but not all of the data is showing. Data comes from a store procedure and when I run the stored procedure I see the data. All of the data items not showing up are not text items. I wouldn't think it would matter. For inst...

Images printing in Asp.net Crystal Report

Hello Guys, I'm using crystal report in my MVC application. I wanted to display an image on my CR viewer. The image is generated using a Handler. Example if I want to display an image it would be (http://localhost/imagehandler?imageid=1&width=4). Something like that. When I use that in my Crystal Report the image just doesn't show. ...

Limiting selectable filter values in reporting services

Hi, I have a SSRS challenge. Hope someone out there can help me out. I have an analysis services data set where is use a date filter as a parameters. When I deploy my report all the dates from my date dimension are displayed as selectable values in the filter drop down. It would be nice if the users could only select the filter values w...

Telerik Reporting - Columns do not line up.

Trying to get columns to line up in Telerik report (Q2 - 2009.) The report was auto-generated by the wizard and the width was increased. I cannot figure out how to get the columns to line up properly. They are rendering all out of whack. I've attached a screenshot to demonstrate. ...

Display document library setting as a report

Hi all, I have a sharepoint site which contains site and subsite and document libraries in it. Couple of document library has setting to maintain the versioning of the doc along with the comments. Now I have requirment where a client wants to see this settings site wise as, under which site how meny doc libraries are there which hav...

Any tools availabe to display Microsoft Access reports on the web?

We're looking for an easy way to display Access reports on the web. These reports have been written and viewed internally for years. They are not simple tables, but more complex charts and graphs. But, now people outside the organization need to see them. All of the data is in access. And, except for reporting everything else is wo...

SQL query to transform this data dimension..

Is there any simple SQL query to convert this below data Date - Item - cost 10/31/2009 - a - 1 10/31/2009 - b - 2 10/31/2009 - c - 3 10/31/2009 - d - 4 11/30/2009 - a - 5 11/30/2009 - b - 6 11/30/2009 - c - 7 11/30/2009 - d - 8 Into below report format without any application logic/store procedure/reportin...

Free cross browser reporting tool for ASP.Net

Is there any free/open source X-browser tool ? X-browser is primary thing. ...

Best reporting tool for .NET

I have convinced a company to change Crystal Reports. But then? What to use? Telerik? I want: designer bind an object model, not a denormalized view execute from batch, generate report in batch export to word or many other formats reporting site Uh, my backend is Progress Software, so ODBC driver. Or NHibernate objects... ...

Reporting Services Format Y-axis value individually

Hello, I have a SQL Server Reporting Services (2008) chart . I want to format Y-axis value individually. For example, if Y-axis value is 1.50, it should show 1.s; if Y-axis value is 1.00, it should show 1 . I want to format Y-axis value differently from value to value in a same chart. I need to refer Y-axis value, but I don't know if it ...

XtraReports Null Reference Exception

Anyone who used the XtraReports, i have created a databinding on one of my LINQ to SQL objects and dragged some properties over the report, but when i set the datasource to an object i get NullReferenceException in ShowPreview() method. If i don't set the DataSource i see the preview correctly (basically only the picturebox i set as back...

WPF reporting control that integrates well with MVVM pattern ?

Is there any WPF control (commercial or not) that integrates well with the MVVM pattern ? Ideally the report would be another View for the ViewModel. ...

Show items in a reportviewer, but hide when printing.

Hi! I'm using a reportviewer to show and print an id Card. The id Card is pre-printed with the texts "Name, Surname, Gender"...etc and I only need to print in the gaps of the card near this labels. I want to show this Images and Textboxes preprinted in the reportviewer, but I do not want to print this items, but only the info in the gap...

report builder data connection

Hi, is report builder connected to database directly from client pc or it is thru the reporting service server(data source)? Thanks ...

Separate tables/databases for reporting and CRUD operations

Periodically users running reports are blocking users doing CRUD operations and causing time-outs. I'd like to create duplicate locations of the current tables for the report users. I was thinking of creating a job that backs-up my app's database, and restores it to a reporting database on the same server so that users running reports w...

Strategy for Reporting on JMS Activity

The answer to this question may be obvious to someone with more experience in data-warehousing and BI, but I am looking for some guidance. I'm building a system that uses multiple JMS queues to process millions of messages per day. I need visibility into the activity of these queues, so that I can create reports like..."Yesterday at 11...

What is the best way to print a report to PDF in ASP.Net?

I have a complicated report that I need to draw with GDI+ (I don't know of a better way) with multiple pages and have it save to PDF so the user can download. What is the best way to do this? ...