reporting

Is there a generic open-source reporting system out there?

I recently started a position at a new company, and one of the first projects they want is an internal reporting system that points at database A, B, C and reports various metrics/statistics/predictions. Basically, the same thing I've done or worked on and every company I've ever been hired by. Since this gets a bit boring after a while...

SQL Server query

Hi, I have a SQL Server DB containing a registrations table that I need to plot on a graph over time. The issue is that I need to break this down by where the user registered from (e.g. website, wap site, or a mobile application). the resulting output data should look like this... [date] [num_reg_website] [num_reg_wap_site] [num_reg_m...

How to Print reports in Silverlight 4

I am wondering if there is anything built in to Silverlight, or possibly c# to allow for printing reports? I'd be happy with any number of methods: exporting files to a pdf format and printing from there, exporting as a text document of some sort and printing from there, or just simply showing the print dialog from the web application i...

What considerations should be made when creating a reporting framework for a business?

It's a pretty classic problem. The company I work for has numerous business reports that are used to track sales, data feeds, and various other metrics. Of course this also means that there is a conglomerate of disparate frameworks, ASP.net pages, and areas where these reports can be found. There have been some attempts at consolidating ...

Reporting. MS Word templates population required

Application we developed fills MS Word templates with data from Database. Customers require to have ability edit Word templates via MS Word (change style, font, layout e.t.c) with no additional software to be installed and no training. AFAIK, Sql Reporting Services and Crystal Reports can't populate MS Word templates produced in MS Word...

What the heck is goin' on with the column Width or Why I do hate rdlc designer in VS...

I can't understand... I put a column into a Tablix in .rdlc designer of VS2010 and defined column's width and even said that it cannot grow. And in the reportViewer when you run app. it gets grown again. Damn it. I replaced every single tag in the file to False - nothing happened, it still takes the width of a prior column. Interesting...

Hide Column based up Paramater Selected SSRS

I would like to set the visiblity of columns based upon the value selected in a paramater. The problem is I do not want a specific paramater to do this (i.e Hide column X True/False) My report has several diffrent "departments" who are only intrested in certain columns. What would be the syntax for example to hide the "Sales" column ...

Should we be giving the client's management team direct access to our git hub repository so that they can see what we are up to in real time?

Hi, We are presently working for a client who is new to working with distributed teams. We have teams spread across India and the UK. Although we have decent project tracking tools (Mingle), would it be a good idea to the give the PM at the client access to our git hub repo. Would this be make it easier for them (see what the devs are ...

Reporting system for organization. Architecture advise required

We have several legacy & 3'd-party systems in organization that use several RDBMS vendors (& more specific data storages). Cross-system data reporting (as well as extra-reports that are not implemented in 3'd-party systems) is required with charts and population of templates (winword, excel). Reporting system is visioned as intranet web-...

Easiest way to get metrics from TFS 2005 ? How to enable Reporting on TFS 2010?

We are developing on TFS 2005. I would like to get some data from there as far as number of checkouts and that sort of thing. I first thought I could get the databases and put them on my offline 2010 TFS test machine. But I don't see the REPORTING service under the Application Tier. I installed a full SQL instance and it is still not th...

Reliable and fast way to convert a zillion ODT files in PDF?

I need to pre-produce a million or two PDF files from a simple template (a few pages and tables) with embedded fonts. Usually, I would stay low level in a case like this, and compose everything with a library like ReportLab, but I joined late in the project. Currently, I have a template.odt and use markers in the content.xml files to fi...

The Biggest Data Management problems

Where does current technology fall short of industry demands in the context of data and information management? In other words, where should the software engineering industry as a whole be focusing its efforts in these areas? ...

How to create textbox in Microsoft Reporting Service?

I have create a report in Microsoft Reporting Service that is presented in a browser. I would like to create button that opens a textbox where the user can fill in text. This text should be saved in column in the underlying database. ...

Show nothing when 0 JasperReports format

I want to show nothing when a numeric value is zero (strict no zeros at left) What JasperReports format should I use so spreadsheet output like XLS gets empty cell when the value is zero 0;-0;;@ format? ...

Can I force Perl Devel::Cover to generate a coverage report if I killed the build testcover process before it was finished?

If I am able to start up Devel::Cover successfully and it starts to collect data in the cover_db directory, can I then kill the process and then after the fact get Devel::Cover or some other utility to process those binary Devel::Cover run files and structure files into the HTML coverage report? To ask the question another way ... Can...

Render an asynchronous report, wider than the screen, without extra scrollbars

I have an asynchronous local SSRS 2005 report that is of variable height and width, but routinely is bigger than the screen. I want to render it full size so that some of the report renders off screen and the only scrollbars the user sees are the ones on the browser window. What is the best way to accomplish this? The only method th...

Missing Business Intelligence Project type in Visual Studio 2010

When I use visual studio 2008 and do a new project I can select the type of project as Business Intelligence project. From here I can select a report server project. I noticed that with visual studio 2010, this does not exist any longer. Tried doing some googling about it and got this: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-CA/vsr...

printing invoices

Hi I have invoice data stored in SQL now I want to print those invoices, It would probably take me less than an hour to print them manually but that is not the point I want to do it programmatically using c# What is the quickest simplest way? Excel? Links to some examples? TIA Stuart ...

How to draw lines manually in reporting services scatter chart

How to draw lines manually in reporting services scatter chart? Please help me to draw line in scatter chart.If you could help me that would be the greatest help for me ...

How to use Jasper reports without templates

Hi I would like to use Jasper reports and build the report without templates. How can i get started? I have all the necessary libraries but I don't know how to start and I couldn't find anything. Thanks ...