How to stick a chart into the middle of an external page

Hello
I am using Reporting Services within Visual Studio .Net 2003, connecting to
a SQL Server 2000 database.
I've been using RS for a while, but only for basic reports. Now I want to
do something a bit more advanced. I'm not sure exactly how to put the
question, so am going for the 'plain English' approach, hoping someone will
follow...
I've been asked by a user about embedding a RS chart into the middle of an
external (possibly web or .Net) page. He wants to be able to pass
parameters to RS, have it create a chart, then embed the chart in his page.
He only wants the chart, however, not the whole web page as you would view
it through a browser. So he would have text, followed by a chart, followed
by more text, like a standard report.
I'm assuming this would need to be coded, but don't really know where to
start. I'd appreciate some pointers, just to head me in the right
direction.
Thanks
DeniseYou might want to create a report that contains only the chart. Render the
report via the ReportServer web service as HTML, which will allow you to get
the images via the RenderStream method.
Save the image data to a temp file, and display it on your page.
If you take a look at the ReportViewer sample provided by MS with Reporting
Services 2000, it pretty much has all the code you will need.
"Denise" <me@.me.com> wrote in message
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> Hello
> I am using Reporting Services within Visual Studio .Net 2003, connecting
> to
> a SQL Server 2000 database.
> I've been using RS for a while, but only for basic reports. Now I want to
> do something a bit more advanced. I'm not sure exactly how to put the
> question, so am going for the 'plain English' approach, hoping someone
> will
> follow...
> I've been asked by a user about embedding a RS chart into the middle of an
> external (possibly web or .Net) page. He wants to be able to pass
> parameters to RS, have it create a chart, then embed the chart in his
> page.
> He only wants the chart, however, not the whole web page as you would view
> it through a browser. So he would have text, followed by a chart,
> followed
> by more text, like a standard report.
> I'm assuming this would need to be coded, but don't really know where to
> start. I'd appreciate some pointers, just to head me in the right
> direction.
> Thanks
> Denise|||Hi Pedro
Thanks very much for this. I've gone through the sample and produced a
report, passing parameters via the code. My user is very happy!
Thanks again
Denise
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:25:26 -0600, Pedro wrote:
> You might want to create a report that contains only the chart. Render the
> report via the ReportServer web service as HTML, which will allow you to get
> the images via the RenderStream method.
> Save the image data to a temp file, and display it on your page.
> If you take a look at the ReportViewer sample provided by MS with Reporting
> Services 2000, it pretty much has all the code you will need.
>
> "Denise" <me@.me.com> wrote in message
> news:1vbyx9jxpcpa7$.1jcgop5kq2aji$.dlg@.40tude.net...
>> Hello
>> I am using Reporting Services within Visual Studio .Net 2003, connecting
>> to
>> a SQL Server 2000 database.
>> I've been using RS for a while, but only for basic reports. Now I want to
>> do something a bit more advanced. I'm not sure exactly how to put the
>> question, so am going for the 'plain English' approach, hoping someone
>> will
>> follow...
>> I've been asked by a user about embedding a RS chart into the middle of an
>> external (possibly web or .Net) page. He wants to be able to pass
>> parameters to RS, have it create a chart, then embed the chart in his
>> page.
>> He only wants the chart, however, not the whole web page as you would view
>> it through a browser. So he would have text, followed by a chart,
>> followed
>> by more text, like a standard report.
>> I'm assuming this would need to be coded, but don't really know where to
>> start. I'd appreciate some pointers, just to head me in the right
>> direction.
>> Thanks
>> Denise