I am having some trouble with Report Viewer and RDLC files.
I have never before worked with any of these so I am still learning. I am looking for a guide to do the following.
I want to generate a report from a single object, ie. I have a list of objects and I want to pass say the first object to the report and then display the data contained in the properties of that object.
So basically I have a form which is completed and saved into my database, I have a custom object that stores the data captured in the form. I then want to click save and generate. This I then want to generate the report from the data captured on the page.
Any advise and guides would be appreciated.
I already have a xsd file generated from my object that I use as the dataset, I want to now supply the data.
It's very simple, but it's too long to write all the passages.
In short, you have to:
Create your RDLC file from the report designer
Bind your RDLC file with the DataSet you have
(Option) Bind your report with the ReportViewer to show it on your webpage
The third passage is optional because you can also write code to render directly your report and put it in download as pdf file (or excel).
This blog's post explain a lot of passages so just have a look at it.
There is also the famousgotreportviewer website but it's a bit outdated (still has good examples)
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I have a RDLC reports that print some data based on a certain query. What I'm trying to do now is to print the same report (with different data based on a different value for the primary key) multiple time without having different files to print.
Let's say I have 3 reports of 2 pages each, I want a single report of 6 pages.
I used to do that in Crystal Report XI simply by putting a group on my primary key but I haven't been able to replicate that in Visual Studio Report Designer.
I need a preview is possibile so I can't just print them one after another.
You could make a combined report that loads the three reports as subreports. There's loads of useful information at gotreportviewer.com/subreports. It's easy if the three different reports are in three different .rdlc files. The situation is slightly more complicated when you want to use the same .rldc file for more than one subreport in the same combined report. A subreport has parameters passed to it, and gets its DataSet through the SubreportProcessing event handler. The solution I came up with was to pass a ReportID parameter to the subreport; then, the SubreportProcessing event handler asks what the ReportID is, and passes back the DataSet appropriate for the report.
You may need to modify your reports slightly to make them work as both "main" reports and subreports. Subreports don't print the header or footer, so if you had important data there you'll need to move that to the body of the report. Also if you use the ReportID trick, then you may need to modify the report to take the ReportID parameter.
Good luck!
After some digging I actually solved my issue using PdfSharp.
It works wonderfully for me because I don't need multiple rdlc files, I just do a loop and then export all to pdf.
I am making WPF application in C#.
I want to make users to fill up some fields in program and after clicking Save it will save document (XPS or PDF) from template with filled fields.
I started learning Net and C# about 2 weeks ago and don't know what is the best way in this application to make a filled document from template and user input.
You can use Report Viewer Control for that. It will allow you to create a template in .rdlc format and then fill in parameters during run-time.
Check out official page here
most of the time we point store procedure or table and then SSRS report designer show us field and we just drag drop those field on to report designer surface. after all we call those report programmatically and pass parameter and report shown on report viewer.
now my company want that customer will customize the report who will see the report. they want to display all the fields in a form and just customer will select each field and place on report designer surface and give some input like filter condition like date range or employee id etc and report will be shown. also at run time if customer want they can add text or move existing field etc.
i do not have any idea how could i do this with SSRS. if this is possible with SSRS then please guide me in such a way as a result i can start the job or if possible give me few relevant url of that kind from where i can get the idea. thanks
SSRS is capable of reading reports generated on-the-fly, but they have to be made just right. SSRS reports are XML documents that specify the data structure and report object structures and how the two are related. Using Visual Studio, you can use certain classes to create the XML document which is then read & filled with data on the server, then exported to the client as a standard webpage.
Here is a link to a tutorial. This should be a good starting point.
Here is a small but working example of generating RDL on-the-fly with some useful links to MSDN documentation: "How to dynamically generate SSRS Report in Code"
Hope it helps!
I'm using CRv9 and want to make use of Google Charts API for generating QR code on fly (in asp .net) and display it in the Crystal Report in a PDF format.
I have spent the whole day looking for solution with no luck. The way we output the report is we use .rpt file, feed it with data and use Response.OutputStream to feed to browser. No CrystalReportViewer control hence CSS solution is not an option.
Now, I got as far as added an OLE Object from file with Link, which I would be overwriting every time the new QR code is generated. I apreciate that CR requires it to be a bitmap, so I was planning to download and convert the google's generated PNG file to BMP, that's not an issue. The problem is that Image in the report does not update after I replace the file. Meaning, it displays the original image, which was added as an OLE Object.
If I open this report in CR designer, the image gets refresh/updated and I'd have to save changes to the report to see this new image next time I generate a PDF file.
The question is really how to achieve a dynamic image in Crystal Reports 9? Remember, Picture object did not have a Graphic Location property until vXI, so I cannot use that.
Please help, I'm kinda stuck here. Manipulations with DataSets is not an option either as we're not giving report a datasource, instead we just map the fields with FormulaFieldDefinitions.
sample qr code url: https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=150x150&cht=qr&chl=Hello%20world&choe=UTF-8
Try this:
Insert a picture; use a dummy QR code or something about the same size
Right-click the image and select 'Format Graphic...'
Select the Picture tab
Add your URL, in double-quotation marks, to the Graphic Location's conditional formatting
Refresh the report
My original posting: Crystal Reports: Dynamic Images
This technique worked with versions prior to XI.
Another idea: create a user-function library (UFL):
Creating a Crystal Reports Custom Function Library
You can also create a UFL in Java. In the UFL, you could make the call to Google's service and return the resulting image.
Or purchase a QR UFL: QR Code Font kit
No idea about anything in crystal reports, but the traditional way of embedding barcodes is to use a font, not an image. So it should be pretty doable if you have the ability to use custom fonts here.
the answer to my question is "it's impossible" :(
I had similar issue with dynamic QR-code as image. The problem with CrystalReport is that it flattens image rendering. My solution was to use the rdlc reporting option, though am not an expert in it. It solved the issue because it renders the image as the original file.
Add image to the report and set the source to database in the property. Set it to conform to original size. I think SAP should look into the way image is rendered because I had to change lots of design to rdlc.
I would create many forms with different outputs but i wish to design the form only once.
First - HTML:
the form must be displayed in
Internet Explorer
the values (the user fills out the
form) must be saved in a database
the form must be displayed with
the previus saved values in Internet
Explorer
Second - PDF:
the form must be exported as pdf
with the previus saved values
Requirements:
desing the form only once
display+edit as html
display as pdf
Optional:
support for javascript on client-side
for validation
I'm not sure whats the best way.
I could use libarys/tools like wkhtmltopdf or dompdf but i'm not sure if whether this also supports filled out html-form.
Imo XSL, XSLT and XSL:FO isn't an option because, if i understand that right i must create an XSL:FO for HTML-Output and one for PDF-Output.
What does you think?
I don't know if it could be useful for all your points, but Crystal Reports files (.rpt) can be filled then exported quite well to Pdf, html or Word. It can take some time to get it working though (at work we use the version integrated in VS2008)...
Have a look at Stimulsoft.Web gels a lot with C# and you can export to anything + you can buy the sourcecode also,less expensive.