generating Excel file every morning

Hi, I started playing with reporting services, followed the first 3 lessons
int the walkthrough, I find it a very interesting tool.
When viewing a report in IE, we have the possibility to export to excel
file. I woudl like to do a dynamic report, let's say generated on the fly at
6 o'clock morning and send it by mail as attachment. Is it possible with
reportin g services? if yes, any good articles or tutorials somewhere
Thanks for your helpYes, this is possible. Look for subscriptions and scheduling in the BOL.
You can also start here with the How Tos:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/RShowto/htm/hrs_overview_v1_46r7.asp
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-Daniel
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"SalamElias" <eliassal@.online.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi, I started playing with reporting services, followed the first 3
lessons
> int the walkthrough, I find it a very interesting tool.
> When viewing a report in IE, we have the possibility to export to excel
> file. I woudl like to do a dynamic report, let's say generated on the fly
at
> 6 o'clock morning and send it by mail as attachment. Is it possible with
> reportin g services? if yes, any good articles or tutorials somewhere
> Thanks for your help
>|||Hi SalamElias,
I come across with the same situation as you mentioned in this post. Any
comment or idea you could provide? Could you share with me the
approaches/methods you taken for the task? Thanks a lot
"SalamElias" wrote:
> Hi, I started playing with reporting services, followed the first 3 lessons
> int the walkthrough, I find it a very interesting tool.
> When viewing a report in IE, we have the possibility to export to excel
> file. I woudl like to do a dynamic report, let's say generated on the fly at
> 6 o'clock morning and send it by mail as attachment. Is it possible with
> reportin g services? if yes, any good articles or tutorials somewhere
> Thanks for your help
>

generating excel file automatically every morning

Hi, I started playing with reporting services, followed the first 3 lessons
int the walkthrough, I find it a very interesting tool.
When viewing a report in IE, we have the possibility to export to excel
file. I woudl like to do a dynamic report, let's say generated on the fly at
6 o'clock morning and sent by mail as attachment. Is it possible with
reportin g services? if yes, any good articles or tutorials somewhere
Thanks for your help
What do you mean by dynamic?
You can schedule a report to run by using the Subscriptions "tab."
You can drop the report on a file share or you can email it.
By the way, you might want to address future questions related to Reporting
Services to the reporting services newsgroup
microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs
Keith
"SalamElias" <eliassal@.online.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi, I started playing with reporting services, followed the first 3
lessons
> int the walkthrough, I find it a very interesting tool.
> When viewing a report in IE, we have the possibility to export to excel
> file. I woudl like to do a dynamic report, let's say generated on the fly
at
> 6 o'clock morning and sent by mail as attachment. Is it possible with
> reportin g services? if yes, any good articles or tutorials somewhere
> Thanks for your help
|||By dynamic I mean, the report is executed for example 5 times, each time a
where clause containing a different value in order to generate 5 different
reports(I have to send an email for each provider with product I have sold
belonging to him)
In the doc on line, I saw we can generate we can have 2 datasets, the result
in the main table can be changed according to a parameter.
Thanks for your help. Next question I will post to it to the appropriate group
"Keith Kratochvil" wrote:

> What do you mean by dynamic?
> You can schedule a report to run by using the Subscriptions "tab."
> You can drop the report on a file share or you can email it.
> By the way, you might want to address future questions related to Reporting
> Services to the reporting services newsgroup
> microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs
> --
> Keith
>
> "SalamElias" <eliassal@.online.nospam> wrote in message
> news:59042B1C-ABC6-43D0-B0F7-BA82E442D298@.microsoft.com...
> lessons
> at
>
|||If you have the Enterprise Edition of RS, use a data driven subscription for this.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
"SalamElias" <eliassal@.online.nospam> wrote in message
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> By dynamic I mean, the report is executed for example 5 times, each time a
> where clause containing a different value in order to generate 5 different
> reports(I have to send an email for each provider with product I have sold
> belonging to him)
> In the doc on line, I saw we can generate we can have 2 datasets, the result
> in the main table can be changed according to a parameter.
> Thanks for your help. Next question I will post to it to the appropriate group
> "Keith Kratochvil" wrote:

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
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> 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
> >
> >