<TextDecoration>Underline</TextDecoration>

to:

<TextDecoration>="Underline"</TextDecoration>

Thanks to JhonnyGaleano for the tip-off on msdn forums

Here’s the full, fixed RDL for a Textbox with Action and Drillthrough:

<TextboxName=“section_0_FullName“>

<Style>

  <BorderColor>

   <Default>#2F5098</Default>

  </BorderColor>

  <BorderStyle>

   <Default>Solid</Default>

   <Right>None</Right>

  </BorderStyle>

  <BorderWidth>

   <Default>0.1mm</Default>

  </BorderWidth>

  <BackgroundColor>=IIF(RowNumber(Nothing) Mod 2, “#ffffff”, “#faf9f7″)

  </BackgroundColor>

  <FontStyle>=”Italic”</FontStyle>

  <FontFamily>=”Tahoma”</FontFamily>

  <FontSize>=”8pt”</FontSize>

  <FontWeight>=”Bold”</FontWeight>

  <Format />

  <TextDecoration>=”Underline”</TextDecoration>

  <TextAlign>Right</TextAlign>

  <Color>=”#00ff00″</Color>

  <PaddingLeft>1mm</PaddingLeft>

  <PaddingRight>1mm</PaddingRight>

  <PaddingTop>0.5mm</PaddingTop>

  <PaddingBottom>1mm</PaddingBottom>

</Style>

<Action>

<Drillthrough>

  <ReportName>/RSinteract Samples/Orders by Category</ReportName>

  <Parameters>

   <ParameterName=“FullName“>

    <Value>=Fields!FullName.Value</Value>

   </Parameter>

   </Parameters>

  </Drillthrough>

</Action>

<Value>=Fields!FullName.Value</Value>

<CanGrow>true</CanGrow>

<DataElementName>FullName</DataElementName>

</Textbox>

As this problem doesn’t affect reports viewed through Report Manager on Denali I’m guessing it only affects earlier versions of ReportViewer – if so, you may find it easier to upgrade your web application to use the latest ReportViewer control.

If you want help updating large numbers of existing reports then please get in touch below or through our contact form – we have plenty of code we could put together to create a mass report-update tool…

When running RSinteract for the first time on a SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2 or Denali machine you may come across the following error:

Configuration Error

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Source Error:

Line 26: </buildProviders>

Line 27: <assemblies>

Line 28: <add assembly=”Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A” />

Line 29: <add assembly=”Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A” />

Line 30: <add assembly=”System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089″ />

Source File: C:\Program Files\ICS\RSinteract\Website\web.config Line: 28

Assembly Load Trace: The following information can be helpful to determine why the assembly ‘Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ could not be loaded.

This is because RSinteract is trying to run the SQL 2005 Report Viewer Control. You can download it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=4016

As a user you can select an existing skin at any time: open your report, click details on the left and select a skin.

As an administrator you can modify the built in skins to your liking:

• Copy one of the existing files from:
  • C:\Program Files\ICS\RSinteract\Website\Setup\Skins
• See BlueLogo.xml for an example of placing a logo on a report
• Edit the XML (there’s no formal documentation to this but the XML should be self-explanatory).
• Upload to Home > RSinteract > Skins in reporting services.
• Ensure any new gifs are in placed in:
  • C:\Program Files\ICS\RSinteract\Website\Images\
• Restart RSinteract to reload the skins
  • You can reset IIS or use notepad to change the date modified on:
    • C:\Program Files\ICS\RSinteract\Website\web.config.
• Open your report, click details on the left and select your skin. Click OK.
• If you see a red-X/missing image on your report you may need to give Reporting Services read access to the images folder. Reporting Services can run as Local Service, Network Service, Local System or a specified execution account – use the Reporting  Services Configuration Manager to find out which.
• Click Save to commit your changes for future users of the report.
• You can specify the default skin with the DefaultSkin setting in:
  • C:\Program Files\ICS\RSinteract\Website\web.config

To do this with a report based on a SQL Server or Oracle data source:

• Create a report with filters, or use this sample report which comes with RSinteract: http://localhost/RSinteract/?/RSinteract+Samples%2fOrders+by+Category
• Open the report and hover over the parameter in the left hand sidebar
• Note the RDL field: Fullname
• Add the parameter name and value to the URL:
  • http://localhost/RSinteract/?/RSinteract+Samples%2fOrders+by+Category&Fullname=Pak,%20Jae
  • Separate the parameters with &
  • Replace any spaces with %20
  • Parameter names are case-sensitive
• For Between filters you actually have two parameters: add _0 and _1 to the RDL field:
  • …Orders+by+Category&OrderDate_0=1%20Jan%202003&OrderDate_1=31%20Dec%202003

For a report based on an Analysis Services OLAP data source:

• Create a report with filters, or use this sample report which comes with RSinteract: http://localhost/RSinteract/?/RSinteract+Samples%2fSales+by+Country+(OLAP)
• Open the report and hover over the parameter in the left hand sidebar
• Note the RDL field: Date_Fiscal
• Hold ctrl and double click on the empty bit of sidebar below the Filters panel, click OK to hide the popup message and you’ll see the Reporting Services toolbar at the top of your report
• Note the parameter value {[Date].[Fiscal].[Fiscal Year].&[2004]}
  • Remove the braces { }
  • Change ampersands to %26
  • Change [ to %5b
  • Change ] to %5d
  • Separate the parameters with &
  • Replace any spaces with %20
  • Parameter names are case-sensitive
• Put your new URL together by adding: &Date_Fiscal=%5bDate%5d.%5bFiscal%5d.%5bFiscal%20Year%5d.%26%5b2003%5d
• Try your new URL …Sales+by+Country+(OLAP)&Date_Fiscal=%5bDate%5d.%5bFiscal%5d.%5bFiscal%20Year%5d.%26%5b2003%5d

Notes:

• Any errors in the report frame are probably due to invalid parameters – if you’re not sure about your parameter values then paste them directly into the Reporting Services toolbar and hit the “View Report” button
• You don’t need to pass all of a report’s filter parameters on the URL, those not passed will use the normal report defaults.
• If your Filters tab has the ‘Always Ask’ option ticked you’ll need to add “&rsi:noq=1” to the URL to tell RSinteract not to show the question screen.
• The rsi:noq=1 option only works if all parameters in the report have a default value or a value is passed on the URL.
• Make sure you keep everything case sensitive.

An error has occurred during report processing.

Query execution failed for dataset ‘dataset_0_drillthrough’.

Server: The operation has been cancelled. Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of ‘RSinteract Samples DW’, Name of ‘Internet Sales Order Details’ was being processed. Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of ‘Adventure Works DW’, Name of ‘Adventure Works DW’. OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON’.; 42000.

This was because the Cube was still pointing to the old server name. To fix this I had to:

• Connect to Analysis Services using SQL Server Management Studio
• Select the database’s Data Sources and right click on each one
• Click on the “Connection String” then click on the “…” button which appears
• Click “Test Connection”
• Fix failed connections

If you change the name of a Windows Server which hosts a SQL Server instance then there a few steps you’ll need to take…

Rename SQL Server:

In SQL Server Management Studio check the name SQL has for itself:

print @@servername -- shows old name

If this isn’t your new server name then:

sp_dropserver @@servername -- drop old name
sp_addserver new_name, local -- add new machine name

Now restart SQL Server and:

print @@servername -- first time will give a transport error,
 the second should show the new name

Reporting Services 2005:

• Delete 2 IIS virtual directories for Reports and ReportServer
• Open Reporting Services Configuration Manager from start menu:
  • Create 2 new Virtual Directories for Report Server and Report Manager
  • Database setup – choose the new server
  • Web Service Identity – choose the RS app pool
  • Encryption Keys – delete or restore if you have a backup

The process for Reporting Services 2008 should be simpler as it doesn’t use IIS.

• 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…

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′.

I also asked a question over at StackOverflow which I ended up answering myself. Yesterday follow up information was added, which may be of use if you have trouble with the fix.

EY Kalman says:

I have had the same problem (on several different servers). Applying SP3 and Report Viewer SP1 has helped on some of the servers, allowing the client machines to connect and download the control with no problem. However, I have had one server that, even after applying the updates, when accessing the report viewer using a client machine, it was still giving me the error. On looking into the exact URL GET request that is being sent, I discovered that it is possible to force the client machine to connect directly to the Report Server to download the control.

The user would need to enter the following url:

http://reportservername/Reports/Reserved.ReportViewerWebControl.axd?ReportSession=51bjqv45xydgos2wghu5ceza&ControlID=7617dedbf0234f89b80cad8e64431014&
Culture=2057&UICulture=9&ReportStack=1&OpType=PrintHtml

This should then pop up the required download/install prompt.

dotnettrio added (which is probably more relevant to RSinteract):

Hi,

I got this working with out removing any patches. The above patch was not working too. Finally what I did was on the IIS server install the following patch and reset / restart the IIS server. This is not for report manager application. This is for any ASP.NET Web application developed in .net3.5 using VS2008 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6AE0AA19-3E6C-474C-9D57-05B2347456B1&displaylang=en

I hope this helps anyone else with this problem.

To be fair to it, IE6 helped make the web what it is today. Its quirks mode rendering enabled anybody to code a web page with little regard to well-formed HTML or standards. This caused many a developer to hate it because it renders things differently to other browsers and often caused a lot of extra work because it takes so long to get it working in both.

Most of the anger directed at IE6 has to do with the differences with the W3 Consortium’s standards. However, when it was released these standards were not concrete and it was unclear if they would even be adopted ubiquitously.

Many companies have ignored Firefox and stuck with IE6 because of the huge costs involved in deploying and testing all their internal applications on their networks.

RSinteract is Internet Explorer only and will continue to support IE6 and IE7 for the foreseeable future because of this very reason. The web is changing and more and more people are becoming aware of other browsers such as Google Chrome. Perhaps in future we will move towards cross browser support but for now we are very much tied to Internet Explorer.