reporting

How to write a complex reporting system in a maintainable way AND have debugging capabilities on the production site?

Here is the scenario: I am currently working on a legacy reporting system for a company which collects data from sensors. The database (SQL-Server 2005) is fairly big (ca. 500 GB) with hundreds of MB’s being added every day. The system runs a series of nightly jobs in order to aggregate and transform the newly added data into a staging ...

Which reporting tool would you recommend?

Possible Duplicate: Best ASP.NET reporting engine with custom reports creation ability Hi, I have some reporting functionality in my app and I want to improve it a bit. Its only SQL in a XML file which is read by some parser. There can be some params for that SQL and when its parsed and the params are injected, it is executed ...

Reporting library for Linux / C++ / Gtk?

We have a C++ Gtk application that currently has a "homebrew" reporting component. We're looking to step up to a more fully-featured reporting library, preferably with a WYSIWYG designer, print-preview / GUI viewer, and PDF export capabilities. Any recommendations? ...

BIRT Viewer with Rails App

Has anyone tried using BIRT for reporting on a Rails app.. I am working on a pretty big app on ROR. I was trying to get BIRT to work happily with the app. Since the BIRT Report Designer cannot be used with Rails, I decided to use BIRT Viewer alone and give the links to the reports on the page and have BIRT Viewer running on Tomcat on the...

How to use or get working: Reporting services report viewer component in VS.NET

I am trying to write a simple web app (C# or VB.NET) to display a set of reports/subreports, but I can't seem to get access to the ReportViewer control. I am using VS.NET express (2005 and 2010) and I know I need the reportviewer pluglin. but I have installed it but I can't seem to get it to appear in the toolbox. I have tried to add a r...

Report Builder alternate row group background

I know how to alternate the background color of individual rows in a Report Builder 2.0 table, but what I want is to have all rows within a row group to have the same background color, and I want that color to alternate with row groups. --------------------------------------------------------- group 1 | row 1 in group 1 - white backgrou...

Generating HTML Programmatically in C#, Targeting Printed Reports

I've taken over a C# (2.0) code base that has the ability to print information. The code to do this is insanely tedious. Elements are drawn onto each page, with magic constants representing positioning. I imagine the programmer sitting with a ruler, designing each page by measuring and typing in the positions. And yes, one could cert...

Can you use a web service as a datasource for a mailmerge

Some clients of ours want to use data (SQL Server backend) in a web application we've developed to generate some documents (agreements, contracts, etc). They'd also prefer to have the document templates to be in a form they are familiar with and can easily generate new ones. My initial thought was to create a SQL Server Reporting Servi...

looking for RTF template system with simple DSL

Is there any framework that fills up rtf document with data? The idea is to make business people/testers change the document in MsWord and than generate reports from that. The problem is with tables, Id need to create some special DSL for handling tables and showing hidding text/page parts. Id rather not do that and use some existing s...

Reporting / BI Framework for social websites

I'm looking for ideas / open source frameworks to use for creating individual Analytics for user profiles and all the other profile types. Users will have different custom metrics, businesses willl have seperate metrics, the admin section will have seperate, Advertises will have seperate, etc. So basically the goal is to have 1 framework...

inconsistent TablixHeader.Size in Report Builder 2

I get this nonsensical error seemingly randomly in Report Builder 2.0. Does anyone know why it comes up or how I can get rid of it? The TablixRowHierarchy in tablix 'Tablix1' contains an inconsistent TablixHeader.Size in one or more of the TablixMembers that contain headers for TablixRow 2. TablixRow 2 has an expected total header s...

Need Help on this complex report

Hello guys, I have to create a report on Microsoft Reports in Visual Studio 2008. I have an Author Table, a books Table and a shops table that has these books. Now, I need to get all authors from authors table based on its author_ID, I need to display all the books of that author and then all shops of that are selling the books of that...

Report Definition Grouping and Drilldown.

My question is regarding rldc file creation to be used in reportviewer control. The environment is vs 2008 and winforms. I have a the following situation. A company object which has a list of Employees. Each employee object has a list of CompletedTasks as well as the employee name,number and job type. A completed Task is a simple obj...

Linkable reporting library for Qt, with editor or easy markup

Is there a reporting library which can be linked with a Qt application to generate and print invoices (from within my own application, no seperate tool). The invoices are needed to print instantly, so I have the following requirements: pipe data to be printed into the reporting library choose from a predefined reporting template (creat...

Percentage function for a group based on another group.

I have two grouping levels in a report. Group A can have a Percentage() of the entire report and so can Group B, but I would like to know the Percentage() of Group A of Group B. Even if I code it, it seems like once the inner and outer groups have created their footers, I can't go back to to the inner group and set it's value. Example: ...

Reporting Services Expression-based Connection Strings can't have any data driven parameters

I need my reports to have dynamic connections strings. We have multiple database servers and catalogs and only want to maintain a single Report file. The only solution I could find that would let me do this programmatically was "Expression-based Connection Strings". Basically I programmatically pass in parameter values to the report f...

How do you change the layout of JUnit Reports in Hudson?

So, I'm setting up Hudson right now and couldn't be more pleased. However, I need to display a table in the test results page as opposed to the graph it provides. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this? ...

Reporting Services Sum of Inner Group in Outer Group

I have a report in Reporting Services 2008 using ASP.net 3.5 and SQL Server 2008. The report has 2 groupings and a detail row. This is the current format: Outer Group Inner Group Detail Row The Detail Row represents an item on a receipt and a receipt can have multiple items. Each receipt was paid with a certain payment...

ms access negative page numbers

I have an access report that generates 36505 pages (un filtered, and about half of each page is taken up by group headers and page headers) , though the footer at the bottom of the report page says "36505 of -29031". This looks like an overflow problem maybe, though I'm confused how it got the current page number of the last page OK, but...

Filtering Hudson build results by description

I need to filter the build results of a job based on the description of the build in Hudson. I found a plugin that allows for filtering based on the job description, however I'm not sure how I would begin to do the same for builds. ...