Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Messed up with reporting services

Hi, I'm developing a Web application in which the user, after a certain operation, it will generate a report using reporting services. The doubt is:

How do I generate the report?Is there any report on the web app that I give parameters and then show it, or is there a report on the web server and I send him the parameters?These parameters come from a specific data set or can come from a arraylist ore something from the web app?

Which of the two perspectives is the best?I've looked im Microsoft but this aspect is not very explicit, I'm having serious doubts about how to do this, its kinda complicated one I'm brand new on SSRS!Thanks a lot!!

With reporting services you can access reports 2 ways (thatI know of)

URL access, using this method your eb app will build up a url for eg,http://reportServerName//reportserver/reportdirectory/reportname.rdl

to pass parameters, you can add &Parameter1Name=1&ParameterName2=2 etc

you can also build up your url to hide/show toolbars, select output formats, etc

Web service, basically the above but programatically

If you have them check out Reporting Services BOL looks of good info there

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