RSinteract Imminent Release

We’ve been really busy over the last year adding new features and working with our partners to integrate RSinteract with their web applications. The result is currently a beta release available for download here. New features include:

• Multitenancy support through custom data and security extensions
• Support for SQL Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
• Intelligent data discovery and cleansing of table and field names
• Blank value matching in filters and conditional formatting
• Ability to add links and drill-through to charts and indicators
• Improved date search and caching for OLAP data sources
• Improved editing of field width and font formatting

In the next few months we’ll be working on support for Oracle data sources; a configurable meta layer for field names, formatting and joining; and dynamic filters such as this week and year to date. Watch this space…

Enable remote errors in Reporting Services 2005 or 2008

Often when errors occur on the database or cube RSinteract and Reporting Services reports will fail with the following error: 

An error has occurred during report processing.
 Query execution failed for data set ‘dataset_0′.
  For more information about this error navigate to the report server on the local server machine, or enable remote errors

In order to see a better description of the error you can either RDP onto the server and run the report or…  

To enable remote errors in Reporting Services 2005 or 2008 run this statement in SQL Server Management Studio: 

Use ReportServer;
update ConfigurationInfo set Value = ‘True’ where Name = ‘EnableRemoteErrors’;

You then need to reset IIS

There are more options here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337165(SQL.90).aspx

And here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337165.aspx

 

So now if you re-run the report you can see it’s a data source error – a field name has been changed in the database:

An error has occurred during report processing.
 Query execution failed for data set ‘dataset_0′.
  Invalid column name ‘myNewField2′.