I have a program which analyses some information in runtime and save the analysis results in certain variables. I have 15 of these variables, of which, 13 are string type, 1 integer and 1 bitmap image. I want to let the user to generate a report based on the analysis data. I have been trying to search the forums for help, but couldn't find a proper solution yet.
First of all, I don't want to save these analysed results in a database (SQL etc). All i want to do is just to display the report to the user based on analysis results and let him save or print it.
This is what I did so far based on numerous hints that I get from forums. I added a report.rdlc file and created a template for the report. I also created a dataset.xsd file and added the analysis parameters to the dataset. All the dataset values are added to the report template.
Now this is where I am stuck. I don't have an idea how to proceed from here and generate a report. Right now what my program does is, upon button click, the analysed parameters will be saved in their respective variables that I specified in the main program. What I want to achieve is to use these results and generate a report as in the template. Sorry that I am not able to post images here due to the user restriction.
Any guidance on how to achieve this is much appreciated.
Thank you!
From what I recall, reports support parameters which can be injected via the presentation control.
With little else to go on, I would look here first.
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Ok I've tried this in every possible combination... I know this can be done in Access, so I know it can be done in C#...
What I'm trying to do is set up a print button, that when clicked, organizes data from various controls on my form into specific positions on a predefined template. Like say I'm generating a Job Estimate, and I want to print it... It would look silly printing the control or form, so I'd like it organized into a neat standard format on a page, that may include a logo etc. I don't want the data exported to a document, I just want the print button to auto-generate this so that it can be printed from the application.
Can anyone point me to some resource that deals with this? I have googled my mind away, and searched all over stack overflow, but I'm not even sure what the correct wording to look something like this up with is, as it keeps giving me c++ or some other random stuff to look at that has nothing to do with what I am looking for....
What you are looking for is a reporting tool, which can render a structured report to screen, or to print or to a file format like PDF.
Many reporting tools exist for .Net development, Crystal Reports, Active Reports, Reporting Services in SQL Server.
Hi I am designing a report using Crystal Report in VS 2010 C# to show students details.
I have designed the Crystal Report like below.
and my actual database table data is
but I am getting output is
What will be the problem?
Ashok as per your question information there might not be any error in your coding but might have error in Cristal report or Application setting.
Check your both that applications and try again.
It’s not quite clear what the issue you have at the moment. But based on your comments there are few areas that I think can be gone wrong.
Check you have correct data source set up (Right click on student under Database fields and go to set data source location and check you are connected to correct database and table)
Also go to file and check whether you have save data with report option is selected. If it is unselect that option
Try go to database and do verify database
Reason behind you seeing values like ###### is definitely because of not enough space been allocated
Hope this helps
You see the "######" because the field itself is not big enough to display the data. There are two ways you can solve this:
Click on the field to highlight it. Then move the mouse along the frame until the cursor changes to an arrow that points left and right ( <-->). Click and hold the left mouse button and resize the field (just like you would resize a window).
You can right-click on the field, select Format Field, and under the common tab you can check the "Can Grow" option.
I'm quite busy reading different posts over how to create reports from dynamic queries. I have the next problem and maybe someone here can help me with this:
I have a class where I can create a dataGridView from a dynamic dataTable in a project made with C# from VS 2010. I populate my DataTable with one of 9 different linq queries that I have according to the user requirements, which also are saved in a register in my database. Starting from this point, I need to make a report where I can show of the same way the data selected.
I have found the code from the website got ReportViewer and it works quite good. Only I have a last problem. I need my report to show a chart according to the parameters passed via the DataTable. I saw the examples that they have there for the charts but they work quite restrict with what I need, and the code for the chart generator that is incluided in the Dynamic Table project is quite extense and a bit complex for a beginner like me.
Do you know any other examples that maybe I can find to use to make the code in my project? Many thanks in advance :).
I found another way to do it:
Now I'm using classes as datasources and filling arrays of these classes with the contect of the datatable.
I pass these arrays as my datasources for the project.
I group my data by the number of fields I want to display and then I choose between pre made .rdlc files where I show my data to the user.
AoA, Hello
i am writing an application for financial solution. in short i ve to get out print of report that is generated. Crystal report is what i want to use....
my problem is that i just want to preview report and allow to insert any change that user want to make. Or easily we can say want to allow edit entries.
is there any method to preview?.... Note that i am newbie ..... so apology if i am unable to deliver correct question. Hope you understand and will help me.
take care.
You don't say what type of project you are working on (ASP? Winforms?)... but I suspect the answer may be similar in all cases.
While a preview control is available in Crystal Reports (at least version XI, for WinForms based solutions), I am 95% certain that the preview is non-editable. I believe that if you wanted to change fields within the report you would need to "re-run" the report processing before you could get an updated preview.
This question asks how to restrict for a whole server. I just want to do so for a single report. I found a code snippet but it doesn't provide any clues on how to implement:
foreach (RenderingExtension extension in this.reportViewer.LocalReport.ListRenderingExtensions()) {
if (extension.Name == "PDF") {
((Extension)(extension.GetType().GetField("m_serverExtension", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(extension))).Visible = false;
}
I can't see how to make the report reference this code upon loading. Does anyone know how I am supposed to make the report execute this code?
EDIT: Incidentally report access is through the SSRS Report Manager web app. We are, in the main, delighted with this product so wouldn't consider reinventing the wheel in order to implement a hack to produce what is, essentially a "would be nice" feature.
It still boggles the mind slightly that the report's available rendering options are not controllable at the report level. Ho hum.
Incidentally I found this blog entry which clarifies the above code a little. Turns out we're talking about using a reportviewer component to limit the export options. Apparently this requires a dirty, dirty hack and besides it's not how we want to run our reporting function.
So unless anyone has a better idea than this within the next fortnight I'll mark this as the answer which basically sums up to:
You can only restrict functionality like this under certain conditions and by no means easily even when you do.
This seems like a clear failure in the wider fitness of SSRS for purpose as we have users who require Excel export functionality and users who need to be limited to PDF only. Oh well.
Does it matter?
Once they've downloaded the data and taken it offsite, you've lost it anyway.
You haven't really described how you are calling the reports - have you created some kind of application? Are you actually using the report viewer control?
You can generate a report in a specific format using the report URL and including the rs:Format parameter, e.g.
http://SERVER/reportserver?%2fSomeFolder%2fSomeReport&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=PDF
The above URL generates the report as a PDF. You can also use the URL to hide the report toolbar etc. so you could create these URLs as links in your application, maybe one using just rs:Command=Render as a "View Report" link and one link that includes rs:Format=PDF as an "Export to PDF" link.
More on Reporting Services URL access.