Hi PFrog:
It seems to work just fine, just having trouble trying to find a way to rename the tabs but it seems to defult them to Sheet1, Sheet2 ...
Thanks for your help!
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Im currently using Business Intelligence Development Studio 2005 to create reports using Reporting Services. I usually export the data into excel or I create a schedule job in SQL Server 05 to automate the process that will export the reports into excel. I will like to know if its possible to export 2 reports into one spreadsheet but each report will go into a different tab. For example Im creating 2 reports that have 2007 data and another report that has 2008 data, I will like to send 1 spreadsheet with two tabs 2007 data and 2008 data. Is this possible to make it do it automatically or programmatically using Reporting services? I will really appreciate any tips or ideas!
Thanks in Advance!
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All the information that i was able to get was about using Document Maps which gives you an outline of your tabs that are hyperlinked to the respective tab. Another solution was by using a product call office Writer haven't look to much to it but it might do the trick. For know using Document Maps will be fine.
Thanks anyways for helping me on the original question!
According to Chris Baldwin who is a Programme Manager for SQL Server Reporting Services it is impossible to name the excel tabs with the standard "out-the-box" Excel export rendering engine.
It is a known requested feature which doesn't look like it made it into RS 2008.
Quote Page Naming section:
" If there are multiple worksheets in the workbook, excluding the Document Map, the worksheets are named SheetX, where X is the number of the sheet in the workbook, for example, the fifth worksheet in called Sheet5. "
</EM>So fingers crossed for RS 2010! (Keep requesting it at http://code.msdn.microsoft
The options are to write your own rendering engine (difficult!) or to use some post-export processing (VBA perhaps), or maybe, Office Writer.
My company is behind me to test out the demo of Office Writer (a 3rd party $1495 / £1050rendering engine), so I shall post again once I have found out whether or not it can do the job.
- Gav-B
(my first post! :) )
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by: PFrogPosted on 2008-03-21 at 08:25:05ID: 21180554
SSRS uses page breaks to split data up onto tabs, so in theory (althrough I haven't tried this before) you could achieve it by creating a report containing a rectangle. Set the rectangle to have a page break after.
Put your first report as a sub-report within the retangle, then put your second report as a sub-report below the rectangle.
SSRS should render the sub reports on different tabs