ad-hoc query printing

Based on the tutorial in
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170667.aspx
We have a prototype that works with our custom data extension in Reporting
Services 2005 such that we can generate a report based on a given query text.
Right now in order to view a report, we always publish the generated report
to a report server instance. Our question is whether we can do it without
using report server.
For example, does ReportViewer control (the local processing mode) help?
Our goal is to create a temporary report on the fly given a query such that
the user can print or export the report, which means that this temporary
report will be discarded as soon as the user is done with it. We would like
to know if this is possible.
Thanks in advance!Hi,
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From your descriptions, I understood you would like to whether it is
possible to create a temporary report for print only. If I have
misunderstood your concern, please feel free to point it out.
Unfortunately, Reporting Services do not have such funtionality to do so. I
wonder why do you need a Report on fly?
I have an interesting experience before that might give you some ideas. The
data source in my project was a remote linked server that need a lot of
time executing the complex query (cost about 5 minutes each time). When
perform the Email-Delivery Subscription to 10 or more different users, the
query will be executed 10 or more 5-minutes (around for 1 hours to complete
the email delivery subscription), which is obviously unacceptedable. Hence,
I will use DTS to transfer the data from linked server to local server
(cost 5 minutes) and then do the email-delivery subscription on local
tables, which is pretty cheap.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely yours,
Michael Cheng
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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Oops, sorry that I think I missed something
Here is an interesting article that shows VS 2005's new ReportViewer
control and its built-in Report Designer enable smart-client and Web page
designers to lay out, format, embed, export, and print interactive reports
without running a SQL Server Report Server.
Build Client-Side Reports Easily
http://msforums.ph/forums/91285/ShowPost.aspx
Sincerely yours,
Michael Cheng
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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=====================================================This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.|||Thanks for your help. I found this walkthrough sample (similar to the one
you quoted below) from MSDN2 as well
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251724.aspx
This is useful tutorial for us. However, I need to generate such report on
the fly ... that is, the dataset and datatable etc will be generated at
run-time. Is this even possible?
In addition, is there any tutorial on generating RDLC programmatically?
Thanks
Jenny
"Michael Cheng [MSFT]" wrote:
> Hi,
> Oops, sorry that I think I missed something
> Here is an interesting article that shows VS 2005's new ReportViewer
> control and its built-in Report Designer enable smart-client and Web page
> designers to lay out, format, embed, export, and print interactive reports
> without running a SQL Server Report Server.
> Build Client-Side Reports Easily
> http://msforums.ph/forums/91285/ShowPost.aspx
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Michael Cheng
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
> When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
> that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
> =====================================================> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
>|||Actually, I just found out about the LocalReport class from
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.reporting.winforms.localreport.aspx
Do you know of any example of how to use it? Say I already have a dataset
or a datatable or a collection of business objects (can't seem to find more
about what exactly a business object is).
Thanks in advance!
"yinjennytam@.newsgroup.nospam" wrote:
> Thanks for your help. I found this walkthrough sample (similar to the one
> you quoted below) from MSDN2 as well
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251724.aspx
> This is useful tutorial for us. However, I need to generate such report on
> the fly ... that is, the dataset and datatable etc will be generated at
> run-time. Is this even possible?
> In addition, is there any tutorial on generating RDLC programmatically?
> Thanks
> Jenny
>
>
> "Michael Cheng [MSFT]" wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Oops, sorry that I think I missed something
> >
> > Here is an interesting article that shows VS 2005's new ReportViewer
> > control and its built-in Report Designer enable smart-client and Web page
> > designers to lay out, format, embed, export, and print interactive reports
> > without running a SQL Server Report Server.
> >
> > Build Client-Side Reports Easily
> > http://msforums.ph/forums/91285/ShowPost.aspx
> >
> >
> >
> > Sincerely yours,
> >
> > Michael Cheng
> > Microsoft Online Partner Support
> >
> > When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
> > that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
> > =====================================================> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> >
> >
> >|||Hi,
To create a RDLC file, you may refer the article below
Creating Client Report Definition (.rdlc) Files
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252067(en-US,VS.80).aspx
Converting RDL and RDLC Files
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252109(en-US,VS.80).aspx
If you encounter any difficulties in the walkthrough, please let me know
the detail step you meet the error.
Sincerely yours,
Michael Cheng
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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=====================================================This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.|||Thanks Michael for the links. I did take a look at both and did try some
walkthrough tutorials. They are great and now I understand more about
ReportViewer controls in general.
However, my problem is still not resolved. I guess I can rephrase it a bit
to let you understand it more:
(1) I need to generate the RDLC file programmatically because I don't know
the report fields at design time
(2) The same applies to the report data source, and I have a way to run a
query to get a System.Data.DataTable object which I can use as the report
data source, but again this depends on the search query, which I don't know
until run-time
I have attempted to modify the walkthrough from
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251784(en-US,VS.80).aspx
But instead of creating the rdlc file using the UI, I created the RDLC file
based on the tutorial from
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170667(en-US,SQL.90).aspx
Again, I just renamed this file using the *.rdlc extension instead of *.rdl
and save it somewhere in my local system.
As I mentioned above, given a query, I can create a System.Data.DataTable on
the fly and modified the sample code such that I commented out the followings
from Form1.Designer.cs:
//this.reportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Add(reportDataSource1);
//this.reportViewer1.LocalReport.ReportEmbeddedResource ="BusinessObject.Report1.rdlc";
and added the following lines to Form1_Load() just before the line
this.reportViewer1.RefreshReport();
this.reportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Add(new
ReportDataSource("Sales", datatable));
this.reportViewer1.LocalReport.ReportPath =@."C:\Development\trials\BusinessObject\BusinessObject\mysales.rdlc";
When I ran the app, I got the following error:
"A data source instance has not been supplied for the data source 'DataSet1'"
First of all, am I in the wrong track? Can I actually programmatically
create an RDL file and simply renamed it as RDLC. What else do I need to do
programmatically (not through adding it to the project as indicated by the
walkthrough)?
Second of all, what am I missing? Is it possible to supply the DataTable
(report data source) programmatically?
Thanks a lot for reading my long post.
Jenny
"Michael Cheng [MSFT]" wrote:
> Hi,
> To create a RDLC file, you may refer the article below
> Creating Client Report Definition (.rdlc) Files
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252067(en-US,VS.80).aspx
> Converting RDL and RDLC Files
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252109(en-US,VS.80).aspx
> If you encounter any difficulties in the walkthrough, please let me know
> the detail step you meet the error.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Michael Cheng
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
> When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
> that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
> =====================================================> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>|||Actually I've figured it out myself! :-)
When I added a new ReportDataSource object, I should have named it
'DataSet1' to associate that with my RDLC file.
Jenny
"yinjennytam@.newsgroup.nospam" wrote:
> Thanks Michael for the links. I did take a look at both and did try some
> walkthrough tutorials. They are great and now I understand more about
> ReportViewer controls in general.
> However, my problem is still not resolved. I guess I can rephrase it a bit
> to let you understand it more:
> (1) I need to generate the RDLC file programmatically because I don't know
> the report fields at design time
> (2) The same applies to the report data source, and I have a way to run a
> query to get a System.Data.DataTable object which I can use as the report
> data source, but again this depends on the search query, which I don't know
> until run-time
> I have attempted to modify the walkthrough from
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251784(en-US,VS.80).aspx
> But instead of creating the rdlc file using the UI, I created the RDLC file
> based on the tutorial from
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms170667(en-US,SQL.90).aspx
> Again, I just renamed this file using the *.rdlc extension instead of *.rdl
> and save it somewhere in my local system.
> As I mentioned above, given a query, I can create a System.Data.DataTable on
> the fly and modified the sample code such that I commented out the followings
> from Form1.Designer.cs:
> //this.reportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Add(reportDataSource1);
> //this.reportViewer1.LocalReport.ReportEmbeddedResource => "BusinessObject.Report1.rdlc";
> and added the following lines to Form1_Load() just before the line
> this.reportViewer1.RefreshReport();
> this.reportViewer1.LocalReport.DataSources.Add(new
> ReportDataSource("Sales", datatable));
> this.reportViewer1.LocalReport.ReportPath => @."C:\Development\trials\BusinessObject\BusinessObject\mysales.rdlc";
>
> When I ran the app, I got the following error:
> "A data source instance has not been supplied for the data source 'DataSet1'"
>
> First of all, am I in the wrong track? Can I actually programmatically
> create an RDL file and simply renamed it as RDLC. What else do I need to do
> programmatically (not through adding it to the project as indicated by the
> walkthrough)?
> Second of all, what am I missing? Is it possible to supply the DataTable
> (report data source) programmatically?
>
> Thanks a lot for reading my long post.
> Jenny
>
>
>
> "Michael Cheng [MSFT]" wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > To create a RDLC file, you may refer the article below
> >
> > Creating Client Report Definition (.rdlc) Files
> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252067(en-US,VS.80).aspx
> >
> > Converting RDL and RDLC Files
> > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252109(en-US,VS.80).aspx
> >
> > If you encounter any difficulties in the walkthrough, please let me know
> > the detail step you meet the error.
> >
> >
> > Sincerely yours,
> >
> > Michael Cheng
> > Microsoft Online Partner Support
> >
> > When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
> > that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
> > =====================================================> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> >
> >|||Hi Jenny,
Thanks for your prompt update and it's great to hear you have resovled it
now!! And thanks so much for sharing this information with us.
Sincerely yours,
Michael Cheng
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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