reportingservices-2005

Getting error from SSRS through http interface (SSRS2005)

I am writing something to get a report back and email it using SSRS' url interface. The code is simple: var string reportURI = "http://ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?/ReportNsmrs&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=PDF"; var webRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(reportURI); ...

How well does SSRS End User Designer work?

I'm trying to figure out if this tool will be good enough for my non-technical users to build reports themselves. I know they will need to have a lot of business/domain knowledge about the data model I present them. But how about the UI itself? Has anyone used the SSRS Report Builder in this way? What is your experience with it? Bui...

Stored proc Timeout in Reporting Services : explanations and workaround

Symptoms A stored procedure that excecutes in a timely fashion ( from 10 to 30 seconds ) in SSMS takes up to 15min or hangs on Reporting Services or Visual Studio 2005. Tried in my case I made sure to use the same parameters and the same security context on both. cutting and pasting the stored procedure body doesn't work, due to som...

Entire Table is pushed to the next page when rendering a SSRS 2005 Report (as .pdf) in SSRS 2008

I have a SSRS 2005 report that I'm rendering in SSRS 2008 as a .pdf. The report contains (among other things) a table that's very simple: header row, details, no footer, no aggregation, no grouping, keep together = false, pageBreakAtStart = false, pageBreakAtEnd = false, repeatHeaderOnNewPage = true. I resized the table to be much narrow...

Accessing dynamic column in SQL reporting services - Matrix.

I have generated a Matrix report using SQL reporting services from a table in Database. Table Date - Item - cost 10/31/2009 - a - 1 10/31/2009 - b - 2 11/30/2009 - a - 5 11/30/2009 - b - 6 12/31/2009 - a - 9 12/31/2009 - b - 10 SQL Reporting Matrix Report Item - 10/31/2009 - 11/30/2009 -...

Add Web Reference prompts for credentials with "Discovery Credential" dialog but won't accept valid credentials

I'm attempting to add a web reference to my ASP.Net 3.0 project. This is a reference to the SQL Server Reporting Services web service. I have verified the service is up and running, but when I try to add the web reference in my project, I am prompted for my credentials, which I enter, and then prompted again and again and again. I have t...

Editing SSRS 2005 Reports in VS 2008

I have an old Report Server Project created in Visual Studio 2005. The reports are deployed to an SSRS 2005 Server. When I open this project in Visual Studio 2008 it converts the project file and then when I try and deploy any of the reports (from Visual Studio 2008) I encounter this error: The report definition is not valid. Details:...

Hand-picking records from a dataset in Microsoft Reporting Services 2005

I am using a Matrix to aggregate data on a per-category basis and would like to override the default subtotal calculation per sub-category, as well as the Grand Total. To this means, I can dynamically determine the set S of cells to override using combinations of "iif" and "inscope" in the formula. Here comes my difficulty. I would li...

Print SSRS Report Automatically

I am fairly new to using SSRS and I would like to create a report that automatically prints to a specified printer when the report is generated. I found this question on SO and it mentions writing code in the Business Intelligence Development Studio that can "fire off" a print job. How might I do that? EDIT: Forgot the URL of the thr...

Paging problem with SSRS reports

Hi, I am using a list with Matrix control which is grouped by the ItemCode. Data for each item looks like Vendor Item InStock Yestu Shirt 100 30 40 50 60 L 1 2 XL 1 1 In such case when i am applying page break on ItemCode, I am getting one Item in each page as it is grouped by ItemCode. I...

Broken images on ssrs report rendering.

I am having difficulty getting images to display when I render a report. The text all renders fine, but the images appears as broken. How do I fix this? My code: ReportExecutionServiceSoapClient rs = new ReportExecutionServiceSoapClient(); rs.ClientCredentials.Windows.AllowedImpersonationLevel = System.Security.Pr...

Reporting Services makes everything smaller when exporting to pdf

I have a basic report in Reporting Services 2005, with a few header text boxes and a table with a header row and some detail rows. I have the page layout setup as an 8.5 x 11 with 0.3in margins set all the way around. The table and all the textboxes have a 7.625in width. In the viewer the report looks fine. In the viewer in the Print ...

deploy Reporting Service 2008 to Reporting Service 2005

i work in Project already built on SQL SERVER 2005 and Reporting Service 2005, and i'am planing to upgrade my development environment to (SQL SERVER & RS) 2008,, but we have a lot of customer have to SQL Server 2005 and RS 2005. and when we test deploying Reports that have been upgraded to 2008 it's failed. is there anyway to solve this ...

Why is Reporting Services report vastly slower than its query?

I have a query that takes roughly 2 minutes to run. It's not terribly complex in terms of parameters or anything, and the report itself doesn't do any truly extensive processing. Basically just spits the data straight out in a nice format. (Actually one of the reports doesn't format the data at all, just returns a flat table meant to ...

SSRS 2005 Subreport Parameter Challenges

Good Morning, I have written my main report that contains a field called MSDRG. I have also written a subreport, called MDDETAILS, that also contains the same field. In my main report, I've created a report parameter named MSDRG, available values non-queried. In my subreport, I've created a report parameter named MSDRG also. Setting...

SQL Server Reporting Services Data Extention

Hello! So... here's my story: I'm trying to create a SQL server data extension (to be precise, I'm trying to get some sample code to run) (SSRS2005). I've done the following: Placed the extension assembly into the ReportServer/bin folder. Placed the assembly into the Private Assemblies folder. Modified rsreportserver.config in, and ...

Cannot render images locally with Sql Server 2005 Report Services SOAP service calls

I am trying to render images from SSRS 2005 via the SOAP call. When the reports service is installed on the same server as my website, the images generated do not render in the page. However, when I connect to the reporting service URL from the same web code on a separate machine the images render just fine. Is there a dependency that...

Microsoft.ReportingServices.Interfaces.dll missing for SSRS 2005

Hello, I am missing this DLL reference in c:\program files\SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn. I'm assuming that this is because I didn't install the 2005 client. I installed all of the services for 2005, the database instance, reporting services instance, SSAS and SSIS. I installed the 2008 client though, not the 2005 client, and 2008 databas...

SSRS 2005 giving me "Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined" when trying to customize it

Hello, I'm getting the error "Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined" when customizing it. I've made several changes to the configuration files and UI, but I keep getting this error. It isn't logging it too in the event log nor the log files, which makes it very annoying to debug. So how do I figure out where the ...

Find items is SSRS by Id

How do you find items in SSRS by ID? I tried to use the id returned by another find result, a new guid to string and small random string all of which return the same error: The ID field has a value that is not valid. ---> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.InvalidElementException: The ID field has a value that is not ...