Producing reports on a web page

Hi, I'm a bit unfamiliar with report distribution and whatnot. I've been
reading up on MS SQL Reporting Services and from what I can see they offer a
report repository as well as a a web based portal for downloading the reports.
The company I work for is currently using the following:
â?¢ Webserver running IIS
â?¢ SQL Server 2000
â?¢ Coldfusion MX 7.0 Server
â?¢ Crystal Enterprise Server 10.0
The current set-up we have is to produce the report in a web page (not
necessarily through a proprietary portal or anything like that).
Crystal Reports no longer supports this functionality in version 11. Does
anyone here know if it's possible for me to be able to create and produce a
report and then display it on a web page using Cold Fusion? This would
include being able to create a subreport and passing it parameters with
stored procedures.
Thanks!
ToddNot sure how Cold Fusion works but there are two ways you can integrate with
Report Services (assuming you are not using the Portal it ships with). One
is to use URL integration and the other is web services. With VS 2005 there
are two new controls (webform and winform) that integrate with RS 2005 using
webservices. Very good and very tight integration. They require 2.0
framework.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Todd Jaspers" <Todd Jaspers@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:058E4F12-E1DF-4409-AA42-9215BF1F578D@.microsoft.com...
> Hi, I'm a bit unfamiliar with report distribution and whatnot. I've been
> reading up on MS SQL Reporting Services and from what I can see they offer
> a
> report repository as well as a a web based portal for downloading the
> reports.
> The company I work for is currently using the following:
> . Webserver running IIS
> . SQL Server 2000
> . Coldfusion MX 7.0 Server
> . Crystal Enterprise Server 10.0
> The current set-up we have is to produce the report in a web page (not
> necessarily through a proprietary portal or anything like that).
> Crystal Reports no longer supports this functionality in version 11. Does
> anyone here know if it's possible for me to be able to create and produce
> a
> report and then display it on a web page using Cold Fusion? This would
> include being able to create a subreport and passing it parameters with
> stored procedures.
>
> Thanks!
> Todd|||Thanks Bruce, I really appreciate the response.
This is how they currently do it:
Can you tell me if it is at all possible to do this with Microsoft Reporting
services? They are asking me to do the research and find out if MS SQL is a
viable solution.
-----
This document has been created demonstrating how we use Crystal Reports in
real life for reporting. It would be great if Cold Fusion reports could
produce the same result in the near future. Not only would it relive us of
many yearly fees from Business Objects, but it would rededicate our future to
ColdFusion and Macromedia/Adobe.
We currently use Crystal Reports Developer 10 and XI to develop reports that
get generated and displayed in our software on the fly. This software is
driven by ColdFusion MX 7.0. The reports are built upon stored procedures
that accept variables and produce different results.
Crystal Developer lets you browse the available stored procedures and select
the one you would like to use:
After you select which stored procedure you would like to use, the next
screen automatically asks you for some sample data to pass to the SP
variables:
Once the report has been attached to the stored procedure, the rest is just
creating the report. The field explorer on the shows which fields are
available from the stored procedure:
Fields are dragged on and the report is saved. Displaying the report can be
done by using some simple javascript. So we have the flexibility to have
whatever we want on the screen, and the report to be â'embeddedâ' in our
application.
We created a header and a footer to wrap around the parameters because those
donâ't change.
In our attempts to move over to the early version of ColdFusion reports,
this process has been real clumsy. The stored procedures donâ't show up on
the database browser and the only way we can get them to execute is using the
exec <stored procedure> in the query window. You can forget about passing
variables to it. It would be great if a similar process could be duplicated
with ColdFusion reports.
Thanks!!!
Todd
"Bruce L-C [MVP]" wrote:
> Not sure how Cold Fusion works but there are two ways you can integrate with
> Report Services (assuming you are not using the Portal it ships with). One
> is to use URL integration and the other is web services. With VS 2005 there
> are two new controls (webform and winform) that integrate with RS 2005 using
> webservices. Very good and very tight integration. They require 2.0
> framework.
>
> --
> Bruce Loehle-Conger
> MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
> "Todd Jaspers" <Todd Jaspers@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:058E4F12-E1DF-4409-AA42-9215BF1F578D@.microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I'm a bit unfamiliar with report distribution and whatnot. I've been
> > reading up on MS SQL Reporting Services and from what I can see they offer
> > a
> > report repository as well as a a web based portal for downloading the
> > reports.
> >
> > The company I work for is currently using the following:
> >
> > . Webserver running IIS
> > . SQL Server 2000
> > . Coldfusion MX 7.0 Server
> > . Crystal Enterprise Server 10.0
> >
> > The current set-up we have is to produce the report in a web page (not
> > necessarily through a proprietary portal or anything like that).
> >
> > Crystal Reports no longer supports this functionality in version 11. Does
> > anyone here know if it's possible for me to be able to create and produce
> > a
> > report and then display it on a web page using Cold Fusion? This would
> > include being able to create a subreport and passing it parameters with
> > stored procedures.
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Todd
>
>|||The process here is just how the report is created by the developer? I.e.
this is not happening by an end user is it?
What you would do with RS is to create the report using your stored
procedures. SP are fully supported as long as the SP returns a single
resultset. Multiple resultsets are not supported. Once you have the report
working then you use either URL integration or webservices and integrate it
with your web pages.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Todd Jaspers" <ToddJaspers@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8E94C9CC-0C74-4F60-AA08-C02CA08C71DB@.microsoft.com...
> Thanks Bruce, I really appreciate the response.
> This is how they currently do it:
> Can you tell me if it is at all possible to do this with Microsoft
> Reporting
> services? They are asking me to do the research and find out if MS SQL is
> a
> viable solution.
>
> -----
> This document has been created demonstrating how we use Crystal Reports in
> real life for reporting. It would be great if Cold Fusion reports could
> produce the same result in the near future. Not only would it relive us
> of
> many yearly fees from Business Objects, but it would rededicate our future
> to
> ColdFusion and Macromedia/Adobe.
> We currently use Crystal Reports Developer 10 and XI to develop reports
> that
> get generated and displayed in our software on the fly. This software is
> driven by ColdFusion MX 7.0. The reports are built upon stored procedures
> that accept variables and produce different results.
> Crystal Developer lets you browse the available stored procedures and
> select
> the one you would like to use:
> After you select which stored procedure you would like to use, the next
> screen automatically asks you for some sample data to pass to the SP
> variables:
> Once the report has been attached to the stored procedure, the rest is
> just
> creating the report. The field explorer on the shows which fields are
> available from the stored procedure:
> Fields are dragged on and the report is saved. Displaying the report can
> be
> done by using some simple javascript. So we have the flexibility to have
> whatever we want on the screen, and the report to be "embedded" in our
> application.
> We created a header and a footer to wrap around the parameters because
> those
> don't change.
> In our attempts to move over to the early version of ColdFusion reports,
> this process has been real clumsy. The stored procedures don't show up on
> the database browser and the only way we can get them to execute is using
> the
> exec <stored procedure> in the query window. You can forget about passing
> variables to it. It would be great if a similar process could be
> duplicated
> with ColdFusion reports.
>
> Thanks!!!
> Todd
>
> "Bruce L-C [MVP]" wrote:
>> Not sure how Cold Fusion works but there are two ways you can integrate
>> with
>> Report Services (assuming you are not using the Portal it ships with).
>> One
>> is to use URL integration and the other is web services. With VS 2005
>> there
>> are two new controls (webform and winform) that integrate with RS 2005
>> using
>> webservices. Very good and very tight integration. They require 2.0
>> framework.
>>
>> --
>> Bruce Loehle-Conger
>> MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
>> "Todd Jaspers" <Todd Jaspers@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:058E4F12-E1DF-4409-AA42-9215BF1F578D@.microsoft.com...
>> > Hi, I'm a bit unfamiliar with report distribution and whatnot. I've
>> > been
>> > reading up on MS SQL Reporting Services and from what I can see they
>> > offer
>> > a
>> > report repository as well as a a web based portal for downloading the
>> > reports.
>> >
>> > The company I work for is currently using the following:
>> >
>> > . Webserver running IIS
>> > . SQL Server 2000
>> > . Coldfusion MX 7.0 Server
>> > . Crystal Enterprise Server 10.0
>> >
>> > The current set-up we have is to produce the report in a web page (not
>> > necessarily through a proprietary portal or anything like that).
>> >
>> > Crystal Reports no longer supports this functionality in version 11.
>> > Does
>> > anyone here know if it's possible for me to be able to create and
>> > produce
>> > a
>> > report and then display it on a web page using Cold Fusion? This would
>> > include being able to create a subreport and passing it parameters with
>> > stored procedures.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > Todd
>>|||Hi Todd,
I assume you know Cold fussion ? Does cold fusion, uses web services,
if yes, you can easily..integrate the way of reporting services or crystal
report
to be see in ur portal.
Why crystal report is not supported in the web in Version 11'who said this
regards
"Todd Jaspers" wrote:
> Thanks Bruce, I really appreciate the response.
> This is how they currently do it:
> Can you tell me if it is at all possible to do this with Microsoft Reporting
> services? They are asking me to do the research and find out if MS SQL is a
> viable solution.
>
> -----
> This document has been created demonstrating how we use Crystal Reports in
> real life for reporting. It would be great if Cold Fusion reports could
> produce the same result in the near future. Not only would it relive us of
> many yearly fees from Business Objects, but it would rededicate our future to
> ColdFusion and Macromedia/Adobe.
> We currently use Crystal Reports Developer 10 and XI to develop reports that
> get generated and displayed in our software on the fly. This software is
> driven by ColdFusion MX 7.0. The reports are built upon stored procedures
> that accept variables and produce different results.
> Crystal Developer lets you browse the available stored procedures and select
> the one you would like to use:
> After you select which stored procedure you would like to use, the next
> screen automatically asks you for some sample data to pass to the SP
> variables:
> Once the report has been attached to the stored procedure, the rest is just
> creating the report. The field explorer on the shows which fields are
> available from the stored procedure:
> Fields are dragged on and the report is saved. Displaying the report can be
> done by using some simple javascript. So we have the flexibility to have
> whatever we want on the screen, and the report to be â'embeddedâ' in our
> application.
> We created a header and a footer to wrap around the parameters because those
> donâ't change.
> In our attempts to move over to the early version of ColdFusion reports,
> this process has been real clumsy. The stored procedures donâ't show up on
> the database browser and the only way we can get them to execute is using the
> exec <stored procedure> in the query window. You can forget about passing
> variables to it. It would be great if a similar process could be duplicated
> with ColdFusion reports.
>
> Thanks!!!
> Todd
>
> "Bruce L-C [MVP]" wrote:
> > Not sure how Cold Fusion works but there are two ways you can integrate with
> > Report Services (assuming you are not using the Portal it ships with). One
> > is to use URL integration and the other is web services. With VS 2005 there
> > are two new controls (webform and winform) that integrate with RS 2005 using
> > webservices. Very good and very tight integration. They require 2.0
> > framework.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bruce Loehle-Conger
> > MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
> >
> > "Todd Jaspers" <Todd Jaspers@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:058E4F12-E1DF-4409-AA42-9215BF1F578D@.microsoft.com...
> > > Hi, I'm a bit unfamiliar with report distribution and whatnot. I've been
> > > reading up on MS SQL Reporting Services and from what I can see they offer
> > > a
> > > report repository as well as a a web based portal for downloading the
> > > reports.
> > >
> > > The company I work for is currently using the following:
> > >
> > > . Webserver running IIS
> > > . SQL Server 2000
> > > . Coldfusion MX 7.0 Server
> > > . Crystal Enterprise Server 10.0
> > >
> > > The current set-up we have is to produce the report in a web page (not
> > > necessarily through a proprietary portal or anything like that).
> > >
> > > Crystal Reports no longer supports this functionality in version 11. Does
> > > anyone here know if it's possible for me to be able to create and produce
> > > a
> > > report and then display it on a web page using Cold Fusion? This would
> > > include being able to create a subreport and passing it parameters with
> > > stored procedures.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Todd
> >
> >
> >