Combining Reports

am currently looking for a way to potentially combine several types of
reports systematically to create a single report pack for a client.
This would need to be done on the fly so the clients can choose which bits /
Reports they wish to have and then click the Download PDF button and hey
presto here it comes?
Is there a way and if so can anyone let me know the best / easiest way for a
simple brain to do it!
Cheers alotHi, Paul
I think we'd need more information about your application/UI and method
of delivery...
but making some simple assumption, if you are dealing with your own
custom web app, you can use the SOAP api to invoke reporting services
and render the reports you need.
A nice way to present this would be to use the fileshare delivery
extension, and have the ReportServer render the selected reports to
this share, then just send an email or notification to the user with a
link to access the file share where the PDFs have been saved.
You can also create one big report, that has multiple datasets and
several dataregions, corresponding to different "reports." Then using
parameters, you can drive which datasets get to be populated with data
or hidden from the user...Note that this approach may be a bit slower,
but it will provide a better way of giving the user one single PDF
which contains multiple "reports."
I hope I've given you some ideas to get started.
Regards,
Thiago Silva
MCAD.NET
Paul Roberts wrote:
> am currently looking for a way to potentially combine several types of
> reports systematically to create a single report pack for a client.
> This would need to be done on the fly so the clients can choose which bits /
> Reports they wish to have and then click the Download PDF button and hey
> presto here it comes?
> Is there a way and if so can anyone let me know the best / easiest way for a
> simple brain to do it!
> Cheers alot|||"tafs7" <tsilva7@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1156518561.205312.262860@.74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
Thiago,
Firstly, Great Name.
Right here is the setup / Architecture, the company I am currently working
for has been using SSRS2000 to provide reports to clients via a web
interface allowing them a series of criteria to make their bespoke report.
All information is saved to a database and a GUID and Version ID is supplied
back to the interface that will then be passed to a process filter that will
then be sent off to SSRS as parameters to be disseminated to the Stored
procedure that is called from the RDL. Hey presto, SSRS send back the
desired report in the desired format.
Now, my lead developer has said, Paul you are a Genius!!!, we need you to
provide a solution for our clients to say I would like "Report 1", "Report
4" and "Report 12" [Where each of these reports is an individual report RDL
Template] to be be selected so as to be combined into one single but
brilliant report. He has also asked as a request that it has continuous
Page Numbers (I can do this bit.) and a Key / Legend bespoke to the report /
s generated and only containing the description to Icons that are contained.
Now this I know is a massive job to undertake and I have a couple of Ideas
of how it can be done. However if there is a way that I can say, "Right I
have a generated report for each individual report, 'Report 1', 'Report 4'
and 'Report 12' and then say go and get me these GENERATED reports and
output them into a single PDF or Excel.
I am guessing that this would be a bigger issue than your suggestion and it
is not something I would get SSRS to do.
Thank you for you reply and look forward to hearing a response.
Paul
> Hi, Paul
> I think we'd need more information about your application/UI and method
> of delivery...
> but making some simple assumption, if you are dealing with your own
> custom web app, you can use the SOAP api to invoke reporting services
> and render the reports you need.
> A nice way to present this would be to use the fileshare delivery
> extension, and have the ReportServer render the selected reports to
> this share, then just send an email or notification to the user with a
> link to access the file share where the PDFs have been saved.
> You can also create one big report, that has multiple datasets and
> several dataregions, corresponding to different "reports." Then using
> parameters, you can drive which datasets get to be populated with data
> or hidden from the user...Note that this approach may be a bit slower,
> but it will provide a better way of giving the user one single PDF
> which contains multiple "reports."
> I hope I've given you some ideas to get started.
> Regards,
> Thiago Silva
> MCAD.NET
> Paul Roberts wrote:
>> am currently looking for a way to potentially combine several types of
>> reports systematically to create a single report pack for a client.
>> This would need to be done on the fly so the clients can choose which
>> bits /
>> Reports they wish to have and then click the Download PDF button and hey
>> presto here it comes?
>> Is there a way and if so can anyone let me know the best / easiest way
>> for a
>> simple brain to do it!
>> Cheers alot
>|||Paul,
Firstly, thanks for the name compliment...it's Portuguese (BR), if
you're wondering.
I don't think it would be easy or even possible to generate separate
reports (different RDLs), then combine them into PDF via code, etc.
The best approach to this in my opinion, still would be to have one RDL
that contains the different report bodies in their contained rectangles
or tables or lists, and based on parameters for which report number was
selected, only execute the appropriate query and render the appropriate
RDL body/data section.
Unfortunately, RS does not allow for expression in Subreport names,
otherwise, I would recommend an entry point report with a Subreport
that would be defined based on a parameter, contained in a table. Then
you could write a little SQL to parse the entered rpt numbers as
individual rows, so you'd have the Subreport render different report
numbers in each "row" of the parent table/list. Hope this makes sense,
but it won't matter 'cause it ain't supported ;-)
Anyways, that's my 2 cents.
Cheers back at you!
Thiago Silva
MCAD.NET
Paul Roberts wrote:
> "tafs7" <tsilva7@.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1156518561.205312.262860@.74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
> Thiago,
> Firstly, Great Name.
> Right here is the setup / Architecture, the company I am currently working
> for has been using SSRS2000 to provide reports to clients via a web
> interface allowing them a series of criteria to make their bespoke report.
> All information is saved to a database and a GUID and Version ID is supplied
> back to the interface that will then be passed to a process filter that will
> then be sent off to SSRS as parameters to be disseminated to the Stored
> procedure that is called from the RDL. Hey presto, SSRS send back the
> desired report in the desired format.
> Now, my lead developer has said, Paul you are a Genius!!!, we need you to
> provide a solution for our clients to say I would like "Report 1", "Report
> 4" and "Report 12" [Where each of these reports is an individual report RDL
> Template] to be be selected so as to be combined into one single but
> brilliant report. He has also asked as a request that it has continuous
> Page Numbers (I can do this bit.) and a Key / Legend bespoke to the report /
> s generated and only containing the description to Icons that are contained.
> Now this I know is a massive job to undertake and I have a couple of Ideas
> of how it can be done. However if there is a way that I can say, "Right I
> have a generated report for each individual report, 'Report 1', 'Report 4'
> and 'Report 12' and then say go and get me these GENERATED reports and
> output them into a single PDF or Excel.
> I am guessing that this would be a bigger issue than your suggestion and it
> is not something I would get SSRS to do.
> Thank you for you reply and look forward to hearing a response.
>
> Paul
>
> > Hi, Paul
> >
> > I think we'd need more information about your application/UI and method
> > of delivery...
> >
> > but making some simple assumption, if you are dealing with your own
> > custom web app, you can use the SOAP api to invoke reporting services
> > and render the reports you need.
> >
> > A nice way to present this would be to use the fileshare delivery
> > extension, and have the ReportServer render the selected reports to
> > this share, then just send an email or notification to the user with a
> > link to access the file share where the PDFs have been saved.
> >
> > You can also create one big report, that has multiple datasets and
> > several dataregions, corresponding to different "reports." Then using
> > parameters, you can drive which datasets get to be populated with data
> > or hidden from the user...Note that this approach may be a bit slower,
> > but it will provide a better way of giving the user one single PDF
> > which contains multiple "reports."
> >
> > I hope I've given you some ideas to get started.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Thiago Silva
> > MCAD.NET
> >
> > Paul Roberts wrote:
> >> am currently looking for a way to potentially combine several types of
> >> reports systematically to create a single report pack for a client.
> >>
> >> This would need to be done on the fly so the clients can choose which
> >> bits /
> >> Reports they wish to have and then click the Download PDF button and hey
> >> presto here it comes?
> >>
> >> Is there a way and if so can anyone let me know the best / easiest way
> >> for a
> >> simple brain to do it!
> >>
> >> Cheers alot
> >

Combining Reports

I am currently looking for a way to potentially combine several types of
reports systematically to create a single report pack for a client.
This would need to be done on the fly so the clients can choose which bits /
Reports they wish to have and then click the Download PDF button and hey
presto here it comes?
Is there a way and if so can anyone let me know the best / easiest way for a
simple brain to do it!
Cheers alotIf I understood correctly, you want a list of reports in one page and when
the client clicks on any report or download option it should download.
You can use "Action" to create a page with all of your reports and use
action to render or create a small program using asp.net and use render
method and create pdf depending on the report clicks.
Amarnath
"Paul Roberts" wrote:
> I am currently looking for a way to potentially combine several types of
> reports systematically to create a single report pack for a client.
> This would need to be done on the fly so the clients can choose which bits /
> Reports they wish to have and then click the Download PDF button and hey
> presto here it comes?
> Is there a way and if so can anyone let me know the best / easiest way for a
> simple brain to do it!
> Cheers alot
>
>

Combination of English and Chinese characters in Microsoft SQLServer 2000

Hello,
We have Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 3a installed. In
one of our databases, we have a table REQ with one of the fields
COMMENT being defined as TEXT. Now, when we try to view the COMMENT
field, it shows us only English characters whereas the Chinese
characters are displayed as ?.
Is it possible to store both English and Chinese characters in the same
column of a table? If yes, then how?
Thanks in advance.
New user.
It still does not work. Is there any other alternative?
On Nov 19, 1:48 am, "Dejan Sarka"
<dejan_please_reply_to_newsgroups.sa...@.avtenta.si > wrote:
> --
> Dejan Sarkahttp://www.solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/
|||newsqlserveruser (trupti.pujara@.gmail.com) writes:
> We have Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Service Pack 3a installed. In
> one of our databases, we have a table REQ with one of the fields
> COMMENT being defined as TEXT. Now, when we try to view the COMMENT
> field, it shows us only English characters whereas the Chinese
> characters are displayed as ?.
> Is it possible to store both English and Chinese characters in the same
> column of a table? If yes, then how?
Yes, it's possible, but with the information you have given, it's difficult
to give exact advice.
First of all, which character set do you use for Chinese? Unicode? Big-5?
If you use Unicode, you should use ntext, if you use Big-5 or any other
non-Unicode character set, you should use text.
Next question is find out where things go wrong. Do something like:
SELECT substring(col, 1, 20), convert(binary(20), substring(col, 1, 20))
If there are question marks in the selected substring which should have
been Chinese characters, what do you see in their place in the binary
string? If you see 3F, the Chinese characters have been stored as ?, and
there is a problem on input. If you see the codes for the Chinese
characters, it's a display problem.
If it is an input problem, it would help to know who the characters enters
the database.
Disclaimer: I have no experience of working with Chinese on my own.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx
|||I ran the query as u suggested and the output for the binary string
shows as 3F for the Chinese characters. If that means there is a
problem in input, how do I go ahead from here?
On Nov 21, 9:17 pm, Erland Sommarskog <esq...@.sommarskog.se> wrote:
> newsqlserveruser (trupti.puj...@.gmail.com) writes:
> to give exact advice.
> First of all, which character set do you use for Chinese? Unicode? Big-5?
> If you use Unicode, you should use ntext, if you use Big-5 or any other
> non-Unicode character set, you should use text.
> Next question is find out where things go wrong. Do something like:
> SELECT substring(col, 1, 20), convert(binary(20), substring(col, 1, 20))
> If there are question marks in the selected substring which should have
> been Chinese characters, what do you see in their place in the binary
> string? If you see 3F, the Chinese characters have been stored as ?, and
> there is a problem on input. If you see the codes for the Chinese
> characters, it's a display problem.
> If it is an input problem, it would help to know who the characters enters
> the database.
> Disclaimer: I have no experience of working with Chinese on my own.
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esq...@.sommarskog.se
> Books Online for SQL Server 2005 athttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books...
> Books Online for SQL Server 2000 athttp://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx
|||newsqlserveruser (trupti.pujara@.gmail.com) writes:
> I ran the query as u suggested and the output for the binary string
> shows as 3F for the Chinese characters. If that means there is a
> problem in input, how do I go ahead from here?
To start with, please answer a few questions:
1) How does the data enter the database? From a Windows client? From a
web client? Which API do you use?
2) Which character set does the client use for the data?
3) What is the collation of the text column? (You can view this with
sp_help.)
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx
|||Thank you very much for all your help. The problem has been solved.
After changing the field from text to ntext in the database, the client
still had some problems. Even though East Asian languages were
supported, the Language for non-Unicode programs was English. When it
was changed to Chinese and the PC was rebooted, everything is all fine
now.
On Nov 26, 1:15 am, Erland Sommarskog <esq...@.sommarskog.se> wrote:
> newsqlserveruser (trupti.puj...@.gmail.com) writes:
> 1) How does the data enter the database? From a Windows client? From a
> web client? Which API do you use?
> 2) Which character set does the client use for the data?
> 3) What is the collation of the text column? (You can view this with
> sp_help.)
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esq...@.sommarskog.se
> Books Online for SQL Server 2005 athttp://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books...
> Books Online for SQL Server 2000 athttp://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx

Collation+Greek

Dear all,
I am using an application which loads data from an SQL Database 2000 (no
service pack installed).
Some fields of the application use drop-down lists in order to enter a
value. The problem is that when I try to create the drop-down list and fill
it with values (in my case, words written in Greek and words written with
latin characters). The latin written words are sorted alphabetically but the
words written in Greek are not sorted.
Is this a problem of collation? I have installed SQL server with the
default settings (typical installation)
Thank you
It sounds like a collation problem. I've had the same problem but that
was few years ago on 6.5, and it was caused because of the use of wrong
page code. I didn't see this behavior in later versions, so I might be
wrong here, but my bet would be that the cause of the problem is using
wrong collation.
Adi

Collation+Greek

Dear all,
I am using an application which loads data from an SQL Database 2000 (no
service pack installed).
Some fields of the application use drop-down lists in order to enter a
value. The problem is that when I try to create the drop-down list and fill
it with values (in my case, words written in Greek and words written with
latin characters). The latin written words are sorted alphabetically but the
words written in Greek are not sorted.
Is this a problem of collation? I have installed SQL server with the
default settings (typical installation)
Thank youIt sounds like a collation problem. I've had the same problem but that
was few years ago on 6.5, and it was caused because of the use of wrong
page code. I didn't see this behavior in later versions, so I might be
wrong here, but my bet would be that the cause of the problem is using
wrong collation.
Adi