Im building a site which brings up SSRS reports by opening new windows with the report url and report parameters. I can currenlty open a window for each report they want to run.
However, they also want the option to save the reports to a file share or Sharepoint of their choice, instead of having a bunch of browser window pop-ups for each report.
I understand I can use SSRS web services to setup a schedule (to run in a couple minutes from the time of request) which can save those files to a file share (or Sharepoint) but that seems like a hack to get a one time generating of reports onto a file share or sharepoint.
Is there any other way to instantly generate a bunch of reports, one time, immediately, without having to set them up on a scheduler that is set to run a couple minutes from the time they set it up?
"Note, they DO NOT want one report that has all the reports in it, these are seperate reports that are already built, and they want one file/window per report."
Not sure what you want when you say you want them all at once but one file window/per report? What presentation layer is showing this? You can make three seperate web calls at the same time to the webservice instead of the hosting site:
h ttp://(servername)/(ReporstServer)/PathtoReport1
h ttp://(servername)/(ReporstServer)/PathtoReport2
h ttp://(servername)/(ReporstServer)/PathtoReport3
instead of
h ttp://(servername)/(Reports)
If you just mean 'separate pages' on an Excel workbook you can do that with one report nesting other sub reports. You can build a master report that has rectangle objects that define pages as their properties and place a sub report in each of these rectangles.
Or you could make an html page that references the calls three seperate times in a 'form' object of the HTML doing a 'post' command.
< Form id="SSRSRender" action="http://(servername)/(reportServer)/(report) method="post" target="self">
"However, they also want the option to save the reports to a file share or Sharepoint of their choice, instead of having a bunch of browser window pop-ups for each report.
I understand I can use SSRS web services to setup a schedule (to run in a couple minutes from the time of request) which can save those files to a file share (or Sharepoint) but that seems like a hack to get a one time generating of reports onto a file share or sharepoint."
That's not a hack, that is the preferred method of saving a file is using the built in web service scheduler. Once a report is hosted (on a server hosting the SSRS) it can have configs set for SMTP send outs, file saves, and snapshots made.
If that is not enough you can create your own proxy classes if you want in C# or VB.NET and try to build your own front end talking to SSRS through SOAP requests to the Web Service.
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My application contains lots of forms which use buttons, gridviews etc. I'v made new form (buttons, labels, richtext for api response for testing etc.) which gets data from API, tested it and works. My idea is to make task schedule in Windows and run this sync every day at 8 AM. I'v made a class which got only code for getting data and saving it into database (save new or update). How to make this particular class make run inside project with 100+ forms using Windows scheduler?
Below will be one of the (if not only) way forward :
Make a separate console application with this class.
Generate the exe file
Use Task Scheduler to run it at a specified time
I am running an excel macro, it downloads some files from SharePoint. It's working fine but my problem is, Everytime i need to check if the file exists there or no then i download it.
Is there a possibility to add a condition when the file is added on SharePoint then the macro will run automatically. Because the reports are uploaded in different times by other users for example one day at 9 am, another day 11 am, another day at 1pm... and now i am checking everyday many times on the sharepoint site if the report was added or no before i run my macro.
I want to avoid this and link somehow the sharepoint site to my macro.
For example for the reports i receive on Outlook i created a macro when i receive an email with attachment containing a specific name it will download automatically. I want something similar on Sharepoint without checking everytime on Sharepoint if the other users uploaded their reports or not.
Any suggestion please ?
Assuming that you are using SharePoint 2013 OnPremise you can write an ItemAdded event receiver which will execute your macro (you can do this only if you are allowed to deploy code to SharePoint).
You could also write a Service / Job that will run every 5-10 minutes and check which files have been added in the last 5-10 minutes (this frequency will depend on what is the urgency for executing the macro), download the file and then execute the macro on those.
Irrespective of the environment this code could run directly from your local machine if you have no good place to host it.
I have installed and configured SSRS using SharePoint integrated deployment mode and have been able to successfully run a report from SharePoint. I created a custom deployment application that will upload all reports and datasets as well as create all data sources and make the proper connections between them when necessary.
I have one report that failed and I need to manually mess with the reports connection to a data source but I found that the drop down does not contain the options to let me manage its shared data sources (see example below).
In this image you can see the option that I am missing. Please excuse the colors, this is the best image I could find online in a pinch.
This is only happening in one environment so there must be a configuration change I am not thinking of to show these options. Here are the things I have already checked:
The account I am using is in the sites Owners group and has full control of everything, including the report file.
The item is being uploaded as a Document content type for some reason, but I edited properties and changed that to Report Builder Report content type.
The Report Server Integration site collection feature has been activated.
All of the Reporting Service content types have been added to the list.
I would revert to deployment from BIDS to debug this issue. It will perform some validation during that process and possibly return meaningful errors.
So this turned out to be caused by one of our customizations. We had an old custom javascript function that was named the same as a SharePoint javascript function that has something to do with those drop down actions. Hope this helps someone else.
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).
I need to copy or synchronize 2 libraries between 2 different servers. Here are more details:
1- I have an InfoPath form that is submitted to a document library, Lib #1.
2- The InfoPath form is published as a content type and Lib #1 is configured to deal with this content type.
3- The users will have the ability to add new items to Lib #1.
4- At the end of each day, or may be every hour or so, I need to copy the newly created items or sync Lib #1 with another library on a different server.
5- The content type will be available in both servers.
I am new to SharePoint so I appreciate if you can show me some hints on how to achieve that.
Clarification
I don't know which route to take, I am thinking of utilizing any of these (if possible):
1- Replicating Database: Use replication to copy data from one SharePoint database to the other
2- File System: I am not sure if the forms are saved in file system but if they are, I could copy the forms from one server to another.
3- Programatically: I am reading about SharePoint server events. I can program against the List Item Added event and try to copy the item from one server to anther.
4- Built in: May be there is a built in tool that I am not aware of that can help me copy items.
Why do you want to do that ? If the target is entirely different server, forms won't open from there unless you relink the documents and you have same form template deployed on that server.
To do this job, you have two options:
Realtime - Use ItemAdded event handler, to copy the item to target as soon as it is created.
Timer Job - You can create a timer job which will run as per some schedule and copy the items from one library to other.
Reject the DB and file system approach. Accessing DB directly is not supported. And these are not stored on filesystems. SharePoint API is only way. You can use either in Event handler or timer job.