Add Reporting to WSS 3.0

[Chris Metz]

Hello,

How do I add Telerik Reports to SharePoint (WSS 3.0 sp1)?  I currently have several reports already generated in ASP.NET 3.5 projects, referring to a local database, and need to know what the steps are to add them to a sharepoint site.

Thank you,
Chris

[Steve]

Hello Chris,

Thank you for contacting Telerik Support.

Telerik Reporting is an embedded reporting engine which can operate equally good in both Windows Forms and ASP.NET Applications. The only thing you need to do is to put the corresponding report viewer in the corresponding form/page.

The Telerik Reports are .NET classes which allows you to manipulate them as any other .NET class/object. So having the above in mind there are no restrictions for Telerik Reporting to work in a SharePoint base application. Its usage is as simple as using any other web control and that is why we have only general purpose examples and does not have any that illustrates its usage in SharePoint.

Regards,
Steve
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[Chris Metz]

Steve,
Thank you for your response.
 
There is Telerik help documentation on how to deploy RadControls to SharePoint, can similar documentation be produced for Reporting?
http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/moss-overview.html

Such help documentation is essential for further purchasing decisions.

Thank you.

[Chris Metz]

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[Steve]

Hello Chris,

Thank you for your suggestion. Although we stand behind our position on this explained in the previous post, I believe decreasing the users' efforts wherever possible is vital and we would consider including such section in our help as well.

Your Telerik points have been updated for bringing this to our attention.

Greetings,
Steve
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[Philip]

Did anybody solve this problem, as I cannot get the reports working in WSS3.0

Thanks

[Steve]

Hello Philip,

Can you elaborate what are the problems that you have encountered? Stating that something does not work, does not help us in identifying what is wrong.

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Steve
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[Philip]

Unfortunately the error is

An unexpected error occured

And there are nothing in the event log

I got past the unsafe controls error by adding

<SafeControl Assembly="Telerik.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=2.9.9.202, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a9d7983dfcc261be" Namespace="Telerik.ReportViewer.WebForms" TypeName="*" Safe="True" />

 

 

And i tried 

 

<

add verb="*" path="Telerik.ReportViewer.axd" type="Telerik.ReportViewer.WebForms.HttpHandler, Telerik.ReportViewer.WebForms, Version=2.9.9.202, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a9d7983dfcc261be" />

But this was taken from a web.config for version 1.5 of the control

I am probably missing a lot of the config, but am reluctant to experimtent this without specific instructions.

Thanks

Philip

 

[Steve]

Hello Philip,

As mentioned in previous reply, Telerik Reports are .NET classes which allow you to manipulate them as any other .NET class/object and there are no restrictions for Telerik Reporting to work in a SharePoint base application as its usage would be as using any other web control. No specific steps are required, nevertheless here is a help article elaborating on it, including steps valid for any standard asp.net control.

Sincerely yours,
Steve
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[Chris Metz]

Ultimately, it would be great if Telerik could develop a SharePoint solution or feature, that would contain all of the configurations necessary without having developers modify the web.config directly.

[Mahmoud]

hi,
    i'm asking if Telerik Reports accepts sharepoint lists as a data source?
if yes, please explain how.

[Chris Gillies]

All supported datasources are listed in this help article: http://www.telerik.com/help/reporting/designing-reports-connecting-data-to-report.html

Cheers!

[Gregory Hite]

Chris, Phillip:

I don't know if you are still looking for a solution on this.  I thought I would share with you what I have found and reported in this ticket.  If you were trying to add the reportviewer dynamically like I have, this might well solve your problem.

[Rico]

Gregory, your link to your ticket doesn't work for me (security?). I have tried the methods described here http://www.telerik.com/help/reporting/how-to-objectdatasource-overview.html with no sucess. The report viewer renders within Sharepoint, however, the data I attempt to bind does not display (blank). I'd appreciate any insights... One would think this ought to be a very straightforward process...