How can I find out where a Sharepoint Report is getting its data from?
Is it possible/easy?
I have a live report similar to one I am about to produce (it will use the same data source) but I do not know where this is coming from!
Thanks in advance!
The easiest is to just copy and rename the file, upload it and edit it in Report Builder on SharePoint. This way you will maintain the exact data source without needing to edit XML.
If you want to download it, go here Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0
However, if you favour a text editor you can open the .rdl file to edit it.
Look in the XML for something like:
<DataSources>
..data source details here.
Where the data comes from
</DataSources>
<DataSets>
.. actual returned date definitions here, like columns.
What the data is
</DataSets>
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I have been struggling with this issue for two years now. My problems are happening in Visual Studio 2013 (not a web server).
Occasionally, I have to take an RDLC file that was created by someone else and make changes to it. Using VS, I create an XSD file for the dataset, then replace the DataSource and DataSet in the RDLC so that the report now points to the tableadapter(s) in the XSD.
Often when I try to view the report in the ReportViewer form, the Report Data Source and Data Source Instance are blank. I've tried Rebind Data Sources, and I've cleaned and rebuilt the project, but I can't get the data source to show up. Sometimes the report will have a subreport, and that data source will be available if I choose that RDLC.
I'm a third party developer -- I'm not editing (and cannot edit) aspx files; just the reports. I've tried editing the code in Form.vb manually to insert the TableAdapter, but it hasn't worked, and I don't really know what I'm doing there -- I have some object-oriented programming experience, but not much.
What can I do to make the data source available to the report viewer and/or bind it to the RDLC? Any suggestions are appreciated. Please let me know if there's any particular code it would be useful to share.
Thank you.
I ended up doing the following, which solved the problem in this case. Not sure it's a solution that will work in all situations like this.
I replaced the opening Report tag in the XML of the RDLC with this:
<Report xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition" xmlns:rd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner">
I removed the <ReportSections> and <ReportSection> tags, as they are not supported by the 2008 schema. I didn't remove anything that was between the tags.
After making these changes, the data source became available to the form, and I was able to preview the report.
This may be a newbie question, and I have done quite a lot of searching for an answer but have had no luck.
I am using SSRS on SQL Server 2008 R2 (Standard edition) to generate XML reports. I have developed my report in Report builder 3 and uploaded the report to the Report server.
So far so good
Now I want to have a subscription that generates the reports in XML format and deposits it into a folder
No problem with this straight forward enough
How do I install an XML transform or specify the actual XML schema for the rendered document as I don't want to manually handle the generated report.
In the Report Builder software there appears to be a report property where I can specify as path which would have to be to a file on my local desktop but nothing on how to supply a similar file to the reporting server to use.
How do I do this?
And I thank all of you kindly stackoverflow souls in advance for your collective wisdom.
The answer to this is Read the Manual !
However finding information through the myriad of MS pages is an excercise in Google-foo
and old fashioned primary school collage.
You upload XSL through the Report Manager UI using IE and make sure that you have a server side path specified in the DataTransform field in Report Properties in ReportBuilder 3 for your RDL file
The essential confusion that I suffered from was that I thought the XSL transform would be incorporated into the RDL file for publication to the report server. It isn't
SO
For the DataTransform property:
1 A local absolute file path with a drive letter will not work
2 Use a path that makes sense on the report server
3 Either a relative path to the XSL file from the location of the RDL file
OR an absolute path from the Report Server should be used
Angus
I have a query in SQL Server that returns me 5 columns with some data.
I want to create a BizTalk application that saves me the result of my query in an Excel file.
I will create a SP for polling, using wcf adapter to do the communication between BT and SQL.
I don't know how to generate a file.xls. Is it possible?
Thanks
Any .xls file can be saved as a XML Workbook ( File-Save As from Excel), which is an XML document. You can see that this an XML doc you open it in notepad.
Now, the trick is to get hands on the schema used for generating this, which is perhaps proprietary for microsoft and may not be given out. So, the workaround is, if your excel file is failrly simple, you can save it as the Workbook and see the XML and generate an XSD based on it.
Now, map your incoming XML to this Workbook XSD and the resultant XML will open directly in Excel, when you double-click on it.
Hope this helps.
in that case you need to developed a custom pipeline
biztalk-custom-excel-pipeline-component
Can MS report data be redirected?
I have a MS report control and I want to be able to take the data that would go to the (MS report control) UI in some cases to instead of being viewed, go to a file.
I don't see where that can be done but want to ask if anyone knew a way.
I tried look at the datasource from the report but I don't see where you can get the data back.
As the comment is suggesting you can programmatically render the report directly out to one of reporting services export format using the web service. There's an example here which renders out a pdf stream.
I've inherited a project (without a handy handover) that contains reports published to a Reporting Server (2005).
MY SSRS knowledge is 4 years stale, so I need your help.
I need to edit one of the published reports, is this possible?
I also want to peek into the Data Source on the RS, because that's probably where I can change stuff.
I'll add more info as I get a better understanding of what exactly to ask.
EDIT: I found a project for some of the reports, opened up in VS2005 BI.
Still, how do I see where the Data Source gets its data?
It brings back 56 fields but I don't know which tables/stored procs/queries are used to get these.
Yes you can.
1st - to edit the published reports: Browse to the folder containing the report source you want on report server (web server). On the right side click 'Show Details'. Now click the properties icon under the 'Edit' column. Near the bottom you will see two links: Edit & Update. Click edit and the source RDL file will start to download. This is the actual report source.
You can import this right into a VS2005 report project and have full access for modifications.
2nd - As to the project you found: After opening an RDL file for editing, click the 'Data' tab. directly under that you will see a drop down list labeled 'Dataset:'. A report can have one or more datasets. These are the actual queries that generate report data. Also clicking '...' will allow you to see other properties of each dataset, such as parameters, etc.
You can run a profiler on your server, then run your report. The profiler give you most info about your query or stored procedure.