Generate Report Direct to PDF

Hello All,
I have been asked to find a solution for generating an SSRS report
directly to PDF without the client ever viewing it. There are a couple of
particualrs about our requirements:
1. The report is being called from a third party piece of software
2. We have no, or at most, very limited control of this third party app
(some URL control possible)
3. The location the PDF is to be generated to is static
Any information, links, articles, sample code would be muy, muy appreciated
Gracias
Michael CReporting Services provides a set of Web Services that you can use to get
find targeting report, render it as binery stream in one of the output
format (PDF, XLS, HTML...).
You can simply wite an application to call corresponding web methods of the
reporting services. This application can be any type: desktop, web app or
even Windows services..., based on your need.
I have no idea how the said third part app calls the report. But it is
fairly simple to build a ASP.NET app, which works this way (you need to set
web reference to the report server and know how to consume web services in
your app):
1. User is presented a web page, which allow he to select a report and enter
required report parameters, his email address is also collected, where the
report would be sent to in the format of his choice (PDF, XLS...);
2. When the user submit the web form to server, one of the web methods of
the reporting services is called to render the requested report into binary
stream (PDF or XLS...) and returnd to ASP.NET app;
3. The binary stream of the report is saved to a temporary location on the
ASP.NET app server;
4. The ASP.NET app compose an email, attach the saved report, send the email
to user's email address.
After step 2, of course, you can also stream back the report binary data to
user's browser, in this can, user's browser would prompt user with a
download dialog box. User can choose either open it or save it.
"Michael C" <MichaelC@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C75284F9-60BA-415C-8D2D-CB41F245A232@.microsoft.com...
> Hello All,
> I have been asked to find a solution for generating an SSRS report
> directly to PDF without the client ever viewing it. There are a couple of
> particualrs about our requirements:
> 1. The report is being called from a third party piece of software
> 2. We have no, or at most, very limited control of this third party app
> (some URL control possible)
> 3. The location the PDF is to be generated to is static
> Any information, links, articles, sample code would be muy, muy
> appreciated
> Gracias
> Michael C|||Thanks Norman,
I'm not too familiar with ASP.NET but necessity is the mother of
invention! Ill give this a shot.
Michael C
"Norman Yuan" wrote:
> Reporting Services provides a set of Web Services that you can use to get
> find targeting report, render it as binery stream in one of the output
> format (PDF, XLS, HTML...).
> You can simply wite an application to call corresponding web methods of the
> reporting services. This application can be any type: desktop, web app or
> even Windows services..., based on your need.
> I have no idea how the said third part app calls the report. But it is
> fairly simple to build a ASP.NET app, which works this way (you need to set
> web reference to the report server and know how to consume web services in
> your app):
> 1. User is presented a web page, which allow he to select a report and enter
> required report parameters, his email address is also collected, where the
> report would be sent to in the format of his choice (PDF, XLS...);
> 2. When the user submit the web form to server, one of the web methods of
> the reporting services is called to render the requested report into binary
> stream (PDF or XLS...) and returnd to ASP.NET app;
> 3. The binary stream of the report is saved to a temporary location on the
> ASP.NET app server;
> 4. The ASP.NET app compose an email, attach the saved report, send the email
> to user's email address.
> After step 2, of course, you can also stream back the report binary data to
> user's browser, in this can, user's browser would prompt user with a
> download dialog box. User can choose either open it or save it.
>
> "Michael C" <MichaelC@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C75284F9-60BA-415C-8D2D-CB41F245A232@.microsoft.com...
> > Hello All,
> > I have been asked to find a solution for generating an SSRS report
> > directly to PDF without the client ever viewing it. There are a couple of
> > particualrs about our requirements:
> >
> > 1. The report is being called from a third party piece of software
> > 2. We have no, or at most, very limited control of this third party app
> > (some URL control possible)
> > 3. The location the PDF is to be generated to is static
> >
> > Any information, links, articles, sample code would be muy, muy
> > appreciated
> >
> > Gracias
> > Michael C
>|||You mentioned URL access. You can easily tell reporting services to execute
a report to PDF format by using URL access from you third party application.
When you call the desired report add to the calling URL this name=value pair
" &rs:Format=PDF" (no quotes of course).
--
Thanks, Jim
"Michael C" wrote:
> Thanks Norman,
> I'm not too familiar with ASP.NET but necessity is the mother of
> invention! Ill give this a shot.
> Michael C
>
> "Norman Yuan" wrote:
> > Reporting Services provides a set of Web Services that you can use to get
> > find targeting report, render it as binery stream in one of the output
> > format (PDF, XLS, HTML...).
> >
> > You can simply wite an application to call corresponding web methods of the
> > reporting services. This application can be any type: desktop, web app or
> > even Windows services..., based on your need.
> >
> > I have no idea how the said third part app calls the report. But it is
> > fairly simple to build a ASP.NET app, which works this way (you need to set
> > web reference to the report server and know how to consume web services in
> > your app):
> >
> > 1. User is presented a web page, which allow he to select a report and enter
> > required report parameters, his email address is also collected, where the
> > report would be sent to in the format of his choice (PDF, XLS...);
> >
> > 2. When the user submit the web form to server, one of the web methods of
> > the reporting services is called to render the requested report into binary
> > stream (PDF or XLS...) and returnd to ASP.NET app;
> >
> > 3. The binary stream of the report is saved to a temporary location on the
> > ASP.NET app server;
> >
> > 4. The ASP.NET app compose an email, attach the saved report, send the email
> > to user's email address.
> >
> > After step 2, of course, you can also stream back the report binary data to
> > user's browser, in this can, user's browser would prompt user with a
> > download dialog box. User can choose either open it or save it.
> >
> >
> > "Michael C" <MichaelC@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:C75284F9-60BA-415C-8D2D-CB41F245A232@.microsoft.com...
> > > Hello All,
> > > I have been asked to find a solution for generating an SSRS report
> > > directly to PDF without the client ever viewing it. There are a couple of
> > > particualrs about our requirements:
> > >
> > > 1. The report is being called from a third party piece of software
> > > 2. We have no, or at most, very limited control of this third party app
> > > (some URL control possible)
> > > 3. The location the PDF is to be generated to is static
> > >
> > > Any information, links, articles, sample code would be muy, muy
> > > appreciated
> > >
> > > Gracias
> > > Michael C
> >
> >