Protection of Excel and PDF reports

[Joel]

Hello,

Is there a way to lock Excel or PDF reports generated by Telerik component?
I need to prevent users to be able to modify the reports once generated.
Thanks for your answer.
Regards

Joël

[Steve]

Hi,

Security features such as locked editing, password-protection and/or encryption are currently not supported in the PDF file generated by Telerik Reporting (in fact not supported in any of the available formats). Such advancements are logged in our system for future implementation.

Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.

Regards,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Joel]

Hello,

You say it is not possible for PDF. What about Excel reports?
Thanks and Regards

Joël

[Steve]

Hello Joël,

As noted in my previous post such features are in fact not supported in any of the available formats.

All the best,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Joel]

Hello,

Always on our need of locking Excel worksheets. we intend to use Telerik ASPNET viewer to display a preview of our reports. Do you think it will be possible to intercept output of Telerik Report to modify dynamically generated Excel reports using an HttpModule for example ?
Thanks for your answer
Regards

[Joel]

Hello,
It is ok. I find a way to do this using the way proposed previously and an tier component.
Thanks

[Michael]

Hi,

Is locking of pdf reports from being edited still not possible?  I have a client who's discovered that pdfs they generate and send out are subsequently being tampered with, so I really need to be able to prevent this from being possible.

Thanks,

Mike

[Joel]

No it is not possible. But if you know how to lock PDF using tiers components, it should be possible to lock it on the fly just after Telerik.

[Mina]

Am i still can't protect the PDF file from editing using Telerik Reporting ??? 

Thanks :)

[Stef]

Hi,

There is no such feature in Telerik Reporting yet. Our aim is to produce a report document in the selected rendering format, with layout as close as possible to the one in the viewer and considered with the media. Further modifications over the rendered documents can be achieved through third party tools and libraries for document processing.

Regards,
Stef
Telerik

 

 

[Mina]

HI Stef

Thanks :) 

[Damian]

Hi is this feature available yet?  I read somewhere about rendering the report into PDF with DeviceInfo would.  Is that correct?

[Silviya]

Hello Damian,

The PDF security settings can be applied through the deviceInfo parameters passed to the reportProcessor.Renderreport method - Password Protection. In order to enable PDF password protection in code you have to set the device info as shown in the following code snippet:

System.Collections.Hashtable deviceInfo = new System.Collections.Hashtable();
deviceInfo["OwnerPassword"] = "test";
deviceInfo["UserPassword"] = "test1";

 

For more information on the settings see: PDF Device Information Settings help article.

Regards,
Silviya
Progress Telerik

[Teck Yeong]

For RenderReport to export to xls, may i know how to add password protection?

[Dimitar]

Password protecting this export format is currently not supported out of the box, however, we do have a feature request about this functionality and I have cast your vote for it in order to increase its priority - Introduce optional password protection for Office formats (telerik.com).

With that being said, there are a couple of workarounds that you may implement in order to achieve this, they are listed in my colleague Neli's answer to the link that I posted above