Disabling 'Export to excel' option when record count >5000 in a re

Hi,
I have a report that has two drill downs that drill to about 5000 records
and due to this I am having time out problems while exporting to excel. For
now, we have worked around the timeout problem but what I would like to know
is whether or not there is a way to disable the excel option in the export
drop down list - only when the SQL report generates like more than 5000 rows.
The reason to disable being, the RS/RM is consuming CPU like crazy and its
repurcussions are unbearable.Hi,
The only thing you can do is to disable Excel export server wide. This you
can do in the RSReportServer.config and add Visible="false" to the element of
the Excel export.
Unfortunately it isn't possible to set it per report or even dynamic.
Jan Pieter Posthuma
"Jammer" wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a report that has two drill downs that drill to about 5000 records
> and due to this I am having time out problems while exporting to excel. For
> now, we have worked around the timeout problem but what I would like to know
> is whether or not there is a way to disable the excel option in the export
> drop down list - only when the SQL report generates like more than 5000 rows.
> The reason to disable being, the RS/RM is consuming CPU like crazy and its
> repurcussions are unbearable.|||"Jan Pieter Posthuma" <JanPieterPosthuma@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:B18CDAAB-35F2-4CA6-AC13-EC30640558EA@.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> The only thing you can do is to disable Excel export server wide. This you
> can do in the RSReportServer.config and add Visible="false" to the element
> of
> the Excel export.
> Unfortunately it isn't possible to set it per report or even dynamic.
>
If you take a short peek into the generated script when you activate the
toolbar, you can create your own 'export' button with or without excel
export very easily (rs:format=EXCEL)
I modified the ReportViewer sample to display a small popup toolbar with:
export the Excel, PDF and Print on it (takes up way less space then the
standard toolbar)
Alfred|||Hey Alfred,
Can you tell me how you achieved creating your own export to excel bar:
Thanks
Balaji
"Smeenk, A.D." wrote:
> "Jan Pieter Posthuma" <JanPieterPosthuma@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:B18CDAAB-35F2-4CA6-AC13-EC30640558EA@.microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > The only thing you can do is to disable Excel export server wide. This you
> > can do in the RSReportServer.config and add Visible="false" to the element
> > of
> > the Excel export.
> >
> > Unfortunately it isn't possible to set it per report or even dynamic.
> >
> If you take a short peek into the generated script when you activate the
> toolbar, you can create your own 'export' button with or without excel
> export very easily (rs:format=EXCEL)
> I modified the ReportViewer sample to display a small popup toolbar with:
> export the Excel, PDF and Print on it (takes up way less space then the
> standard toolbar)
> Alfred
>
>|||"Balaji" <Balaji@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hey Alfred,
> Can you tell me how you achieved creating your own export to excel bar:
>
Like I said, I modifed the ReportViewer sample, its (by default) installed
here:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting
Services\Samples\Applications\ReportViewer
I modified the properties and added 'small' to the ToolBar options, and when
selected I generate different code. I add an extra table around the iframe
and use a div to display a popup menu like when you hover over an image in
IE. The 'onclick' of the images activates a new window with the requested
export of the report (actually a re-render of the report I think, I didn't
add the session ID)
Alfred|||Instead of disabling export to Excel you might want to add a link at the top
of the page that says Export Data. Use jump to URL and specify CSV and ASCII
(the CSV export does Unicode and Excel doesn't handle unicode CSV). By
rendering in ASCII CSV Excel comes up automatically and this is very very
fast. I had an Excel export that took 5 minutes and brought the server to
its knees go to 10 seconds.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Smeenk, A.D." <alfreds@.dbs-at-nospam-at-nl> wrote in message
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> "Balaji" <Balaji@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:29713B57-0C78-4AB9-B7BE-8E5234D59809@.microsoft.com...
>> Hey Alfred,
>> Can you tell me how you achieved creating your own export to excel bar:
> Like I said, I modifed the ReportViewer sample, its (by default) installed
> here:
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting
> Services\Samples\Applications\ReportViewer
> I modified the properties and added 'small' to the ToolBar options, and
> when selected I generate different code. I add an extra table around the
> iframe and use a div to display a popup menu like when you hover over an
> image in IE. The 'onclick' of the images activates a new window with the
> requested export of the report (actually a re-render of the report I
> think, I didn't add the session ID)
> Alfred
>|||"Bruce L-C [MVP]" <bruce_lcNOSPAM@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Instead of disabling export to Excel you might want to add a link at the
> top of the page that says Export Data. Use jump to URL and specify CSV and
> ASCII (the CSV export does Unicode and Excel doesn't handle unicode CSV).
> By rendering in ASCII CSV Excel comes up automatically and this is very
> very fast. I had an Excel export that took 5 minutes and brought the
> server to its knees go to 10 seconds.
>
That 'export to CSV' should 'officially' be on the right-click menu when you
view a table layout report part, now for some reason that does not function
on all machines... any idea's?
Yes same report, all machines Windows XP SP2, IE 6.
With one person the option re-appeared after a reset of the local intranet
security to default...
Alfred|||No idea about that. Note that the export to CSV you are talking about
exports as Unicode and Excel will bring it all together in a single column.
Bruce L-C
"Smeenk, A.D." <alfreds@.dbs-at-nospam-at-nl> wrote in message
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> "Bruce L-C [MVP]" <bruce_lcNOSPAM@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23HdntxuVFHA.2664@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Instead of disabling export to Excel you might want to add a link at the
>> top of the page that says Export Data. Use jump to URL and specify CSV
>> and ASCII (the CSV export does Unicode and Excel doesn't handle unicode
>> CSV). By rendering in ASCII CSV Excel comes up automatically and this is
>> very very fast. I had an Excel export that took 5 minutes and brought the
>> server to its knees go to 10 seconds.
> That 'export to CSV' should 'officially' be on the right-click menu when
> you view a table layout report part, now for some reason that does not
> function on all machines... any idea's?
> Yes same report, all machines Windows XP SP2, IE 6.
> With one person the option re-appeared after a reset of the local intranet
> security to default...
> Alfred
>|||Why don't you increase the timeout?
Farahmand
"Jammer" wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a report that has two drill downs that drill to about 5000 records
> and due to this I am having time out problems while exporting to excel. For
> now, we have worked around the timeout problem but what I would like to know
> is whether or not there is a way to disable the excel option in the export
> drop down list - only when the SQL report generates like more than 5000 rows.
> The reason to disable being, the RS/RM is consuming CPU like crazy and its
> repurcussions are unbearable.|||Why don't you increase the timeout?
Farahmand
"Jammer" wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a report that has two drill downs that drill to about 5000 records
> and due to this I am having time out problems while exporting to excel. For
> now, we have worked around the timeout problem but what I would like to know
> is whether or not there is a way to disable the excel option in the export
> drop down list - only when the SQL report generates like more than 5000 rows.
> The reason to disable being, the RS/RM is consuming CPU like crazy and its
> repurcussions are unbearable.