I'm trying to find documentation on RDLC.
Specifically I'm looking for the different Actions in a TextBox element.
You can find the RDL specifications for the various SQL Server versions here:
SQL Server RDL Specification
On page 41, you get a list of possible actions:
Action The Action element defines a
hyperlink, bookmark link or
drillthrough action associated with a
ReportItem.
According to Got Reportviewer?, RDLC and RDL share the same format:
Q8: What is the difference between RDL
and RDLC formats?
A: RDL files are created by the SQL
Server 2008 version of Report
Designer. RDLC files are created by
the Visual Studio 2008 version of
Report Designer.
RDL and RDLC formats have the same XML
schema. However, in RDLC files, some
values (such as query text) are
allowed to be empty, which means that
they are not immediately ready to be
published to a Report Server. The
missing values can be entered by
opening the RDLC file using the SQL
Server 2008 version of Report
Designer. (You have to rename .rdlc to
.rdl first.)
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Our reporting services migrated from SSRS 2005 to SSRS 2016. In one specific report, a particular field of looks different on the pdf export. The font that's specified in the report rdl file for that specific field was internally designed a long time ago. We thought the problem had to do with it not being installed in the new server and we proceeded to installing it. After the installation, the result looked different (meaning that the recently installed font was being used) but still very different from the pdf export on the original server. Keep in mind that the rdl files for the report are exactly the same.
My questions is: is it possible to configure some kind of font mapping at server level, so it will replace one font for other, when exporting to pdf?
Any other ideas that explain why the same rdl file looks different in the two SSRS servers when exported to PDF?
Thanks in advance!
I am trying to create a SSRS report with sql server 2005 BI. I have to use the existing data source to be consistent with the other reports, but in the SharedDataSources folder when I click add existing item, I cant find the Data source.
Can someone tell me where the Data Sources for SSRS reports store physically on a machine?
Thanks
It should be stored in the SSRS project. It will appear as .rds file.
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
We are planning on creating reports to be run on the same computer that the database application is running on.
Can you tell me which of these is the best approach? (SQL Server Reporting Services or creating a rdlc ReportViewer report)
Also I tried to locate detailed rdlc ReportViewer report tutorials both in books and online and found none. It's probably because I'm looking in the wrong places.
We are also using VB.Net as the language.
All help will be appreciated.
In a nutshell, .rdlc is the client version. You cannot host these on the report server. These reports do not know how to fetch the data, you MUST get the data yourself and pass it to the report. For this reason, you cannot even preview the report while designing. ReportViewer.ProccessingMode = Local
The .rdl or server reports know how to fetch the data. You configure the datasource and upload them to the report server. Because of this, you can preview the reports while designing them. You can use the web/desktop ReportViewer control to run the reports from inside your app...like a proxy between your application and the report server.ReportViewer.ProccessingMode = Remote
I prefer rdl for any sql datasource, but rdlc is also good for cases where your datasource is very complex or can only be built through the application code. I think there might be ways to configure an object datasource for rdl but I haven't looked into that yet.
I am using visual studio 2008 and reporting service 2008.
I created a .rdl reports. Now I want to convert .rdl to .rdlc. How can I do it?
Good question. According to spec whey should be more or less the same, but in reality they differ wildly depending on version. For instance if I open an RDLC file I created in Visual Studio 2010 in Report Builder 3.0 it works. But if I make a change in my RDL(C) file and try to open it in VS2010 I first get asked if I want to convert it to RDLC 2008 format (yes) and then I get the error message "The report definition has an invalid target namespace 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2010/01/reportdefinition' which cannot be upgraded."
There is nothing to convert. All you have to do is to rename the file to .rdlc. This converts it from a server report to a client report. The underlying schema is the same, whether it's an .rdl or .rdlc file.
Take a look at FAQ #8 here: http://www.gotreportviewer.com/
I found working with MS support that converting an RDL to RDLC merely by changing the extensions results in a ReportViewer Control HTTPHandler error which is shown with a style of "dsiplay:none". It accuses the developer of not including the HTTPHandler in the web.config, when it is actually in the web.config. Using an rdlc created by VS in that project, then the reportviewer opens just fine and properly displays. MS support and I are still researching what other changes need to be made, but as of now, I can let people know not to drink the MSDN Kool-Aid.
I also tried changing the schemas namespace in the XML file and I got the same report definition cited above.