Reports on Web

The Page Reports On Web sample demonstrates how to use the ActiveReports WebViewer control on the ASPX page to display reports. The sample offers two drop-down lists of RDL reports and WebViewer types.

Sample Location

Visual Basic.NET

<User Folder>\ComponentOne Samples\ActiveReports 9\Page Reports\RDL\Web\VB.NET\PageReportsOnWeb

<User Folder>\ComponentOne Samples\ActiveReports 9\Page Reports\RDL\Web\C#\PageReportsOnWeb

Runtime Features

When you run this sample, a webpage with two drop-down lists, one with RDL reports and the other with viewer types, appears. Select a report and the viewer type from the drop-down lists and click the Show button to see the report appear in the selected viewer type.

Project Details

Images folder

This folder contains two image files - bg.jpg and grapecity_logo.jpg, that are displayed on the Default.aspx page at runtime.

ActiveReports.ReportService.asmx

The report web service required for the proper functioning of the Web Viewer. The ActiveReports.ReportService.asmx is added automatically to the project when you place the WebViewer control on the form. You can also add this service by using Add New Item in the Visual Studio 2010 Project menu.

For the information on how to use the WebViewer control, see Getting Started with the Web Viewer.

Default.aspx

This is the main page that appears at runtime. This ASPX page contains drop-down lists to collect user input, a button to send the collected values to the WebViewer control.

Right-click the ASPX page and select View Code to see the code used to find the reports in the Reels folder installed along with the sample. To learn more about the RDL reports that you can select on this page, see RDL Report Loader. It also contains code that displays the selected report and sets the WebViewer type selected by the user.

The Source tab of the ASPX page contains the marquee tag to display a floating message below the WebViewer.

ErrorSelection.rdlx

This is the report that appears at runtime when you have clicked the Show button without selecting any specific report from the drop-down list. It contains a TextBox control that displays the error message.

Main.rdlx

This is the default report that appears in the WebViewer when you run this sample. It contains a FormattedText control with the HTML property set to the welcome message text. This text is displayed when you run this sample.

Web.config

The configuration file that contains the httpHandlers that allow ActiveReports to process reports on the Web.

Note that you need to manually update version information here when you update your version of ActiveReports.

Getting Started

ActiveReports and the Web