I am new in this field and I am looking to download a single report, but it has more than 200 values in a drop down. Can you guide me how to download all the report with 200 values in one go.
Let me give you an overview of what the data looks like:
There are 200 practices and each practices has 5 or 6 providers. I am new in healthcare industry. So, I need to manually click on each practice and each provider and click on the view report to see the report and then download the report. So, we have run the report and click to save in PDF for all 1000+ reports.
We use the standard version of SSRs and we don't have any Enterprise version of it.
Can you guide me what to do in this case? Thanks.
I would recommend using a data-driven subscription to generate these reports. When you set up the subscription, you can provide a query that lists all the practices. When the subscription runs, it will generate a separate copy of the report using each practice as a parameter value.
You can set the subscription to email the reports or save them in a folder. This way, it doesn't matter so much how long it takes to run and there is much less manual work for you once you set it up.
You need to amend the report definition so that the filters allow for 'Select Multiple' that way you can select all in the drop downs.
So for example:
The option "Allow Multiple Values" would allow you to Select all of that parameter.
You can also use URL Access and pass in the parameter you want.
Go to http://<server_name>/ReportServer/ and find the report you want.
Then tack on to the end the parameter name and value you want. ¶m=val¶m2=val2
Then add the &rs:Format= command and put your desired extension like CSV.
e.g. http://<server_name>/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?<my_report_path>¶m=val¶m2=val2&rs:Format=CSV
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/pass-a-report-parameter-within-a-url?view=sql-server-ver15
If you have a lot of parameters, then run this through for loop. Python may be easiest.
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need your idea guys how to develop Automation WorkTask.
Actually, i want to create a automation WorkTask by pulling the data from SQL. I always used a website : XXX to submit Work Task. In another hand, i need to pull the data from SQL. SO, i will used the data from SQL and manually insert to the website to submit Work Task. my idea is, i want to make it as one. meaning that, whenever, i pull the data, it will automatically, send the data to the website and auto submit Work Task. can anyone help me to do that? or it is impossible? - Noobiest SQL
Use a Console Application. From there you can extract the data, format it in any way you want and even automate the upload of that information using the .NET library.
Then with the windows scheduler, you can tell it to run however often you need to.
For example, I have an application that runs every 5 minutes, reads a database, gets the info, then executes a number of tasks using it. It's scheduled to run every 5 minutes.
Currently I am in the process of building an updated Microsoft Access database for our affiliated hospital to keep a timeline of documentation for potential medical studies. The database itself is standalone, so there is no real back end to speak of (which hurts me, but I have no control over how they handle their data). It currently holds only one table with all the necessary fields needed. I'm looking to have reports generate automatically every week, month, quarter, and year. However, I must admit my vba coding abilities are spotty at best. My questions are this:
What code would I need to use to generate said reports?
Would I need to create separate queries just for each type of report based on when it needs to be generated, or can I code it all in one query without the different codes interfering with each other?
If any other information or clarification is needed, I'd be happy to give you what I can.
When calling a Report from VBA or from a macro, two things could be usefull to you:
providing a condition, like
docmd.OpenReport "someReport",acViewPreview,,"[examDate] > Date() - 30"
providing an OpenArg, which can be used by vba in your report to change the periodicity for example ("M" for Monthly and "w" for Weekly"), like
docmd.OpenReport "someReport",acViewPreview,,"[examDate] > Date() - 30",,"W"
Those tricks should allow you to design a report ONCE, then use it with dynamic time range and grouping.
If you don't want to use VBA, for creating automatic reports printing/export you'll need:
Create reports which don't require user entry, use date functions for querying required date intervals.
Create macroses for starting reports and closing the database, no VBA knowledge required
Create tasks in Windows Task Scheduler for starting MS Access at requred days/time. Command line should contain parameters for opening specified database and starting specified macro (/x macro_name). Parameters description you can find, for instance, here
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The comments say it all.
Access is designed to make report writing of the nature you describe very easy, and a lot can be achieved without using VBA at all or macros for that matter.
If you want to use the same report to display the same sets of data for different date ranges (or perhaps with other changes in criteria), you should prompt the user to enter a date range or the other criteria that will cause the data displayed to be changed. (ie the parameters they entered are used in the query to change the data returned).
This is infinitely preferable to having many many reports and queries that are all the same except they get data for a different set of criteria.
There are many Access Programming books that will help you re-learn these skills. I have found this channel useful https://www.youtube.com/user/ProgrammingMadeEZ/search?query=reports for other Access videos, but it's not as useful for reports.
Harvey
I need a simple tool to visualize the status of a series of processes (ETL processes, but that shouldn't matter). This process monitor need to be customizable with color coding for different status codes. The plan is to place the monitor on a big screen in the office making any faults instantly visible to everyone.
Today I can check the status of these processes by running an sql statement against the underlying tables in our oracle database. The output of these queries are the abovementioned status codes for each process. I'm imagining using these sql statements, run periodically (say, every minute or so), as an input to this monitor.
I've considered writing a simple web interface for doing this, but I'm thinking something like this should exist out there already. Anyone have any suggestions?
If just displaying on one workstation another option is SQL Developer Custom Reports. You would still have to fire up SQL Developer and start the report, but the custom reports have a setting so they can be refreshed at a specified interval (5-120 seconds). Depending on the 'richness' of the output you want you can either:
Create a simple Table report (style = Table)
Paste in one of the queries you already use as a starting point.
Create a PL/SQL Block that outputs HTML via DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE statements (Style = plsql-dbms_output)
Get creative as you like with formatting, colors, etc using HTML tags in the output. I have used this to create bar graphs to show progress of v$Long_Operations. A full description and screen shots are available here Creating a User Defined HTML Report
in SQL Developer.
If you just want to get some output moving you can forego SQL Developer, schedule a process to use your PL/SQL block to write HTML output to a file, and use a browser to display your generated output on your big screen. Alternately make the file available via a web server so others in your office can bring it up. Periodically regnerate the file and make sure to add a refresh meta tag to the page so browsers will periodically reload.
Oracle Application Express is probably the best tool for this.
I would say roll your own dashboard. Depends on your skillset, but I'd do a basic web app in Java (spring or some mvc framework, I'm not a web developer but I know enough to create a basic functional dashboard). Since you already know the SQL needed, it shouldn't be difficult to put together and you can modify as needed in future. Just keep it simple I would say (don't need a middleware or single sign-on or fancy views/charts).
SSRS newbie question here...
I have a table where one column is varbinary(max) data. I would like to make a report that makes this data available for download as a hyperlink so the user can just click on the item and get a file download dialog for the binary data. In this particular case, the binary data happens to be the content of old pdf files, but that shouldn't matter.
I tried searching around but I can't find any pointers on how to do this. It seems to me that it should be possible. There are ways to display images in a report using varbinary data, so it makes sense that one should be able to make arbitrary binary data downloadable on a report, right?
No, it is not possible as far as I can tell. Don't see anyway to do this.
The work-around that I used was to create a simple asp.net page to serve the binary content through some URL. I then hyperlinked to that page from the SSRS report giving the right variables in the URL. Works fine for me, YMMV if you have to worry about URL hacking or security issues.
I would like to be able to loop through all of the defined parameters on my reports and build a display string of the parameter name and value. I'd then display the results on the report so the user knows which parameters were used for that specific execution. The only problem is that I cannot loop through the Parameters collection. There doesn't seem to be an indexer on the Parameters collection, nor does it seem to implement IEnumerable. Has anyone been able to accomplish this? I'm using SSRS 2005 and it must be implemented within the Report Code (i.e., no external assembly). Thanks!
Unfortunately, it looks like there's no simple way to do this.
See http://www.jameskovacs.com/blog/DiggingDeepIntoReportingServices.aspx for more info. If you look at the comments of that post, there are some ways to get around this, but they're not very elegant. The simplest solution will require you to have a list of the report parameters somewhere in your Report Code, which obviously violates the DRY principle, but if you want the simplest solution, you might just have to live with that.
You might want to rethink your constraint of no external assembly, as it looks to me that it would be much easier to do this with an external assembly. Or if your report isn't going to change much, you can create the list of parameter names and values manually.
If I'm understanding your question, just do what I do:
Drop a textbox on the report, then while you are setting up the report, insert the following:
="Parameter1: " + Parameters!Parameter.Label + ", Parameter2: " + Parameters!Parameter2.Label...
Granted, it's not the prettiest thing, but it does work pretty well in our app.
And I'm using Labels instead of Values since we have datetime values, and the user only cares about either the short date or the month and year (depending on circumstance), and I've already done that formatting work in setting up the parameters.
I can think of at least two ways to do this. The first might work, the second will definitely work.
Use the web service. I'm pretty sure I saw API for getting a collection of parameters. Even if there's no direct access you can always create a standard collection and copy the ReportParameter objects from one to the other in a foreach loop - and then access Count, with individual parameter properties available by dereferencing the ReportParameter instances.
Reports are RDL. RDL is XML. Create an XmlDocument and load the RDL file, then use the DOM to do, well, anything you like up to and including setting default values or even rewriting connection strings.
If your app won't have file-system access to the RDL files you can get them via the web service.