Report Output; what format?

  • I have just released in our company my first series of reports that went from a printed (excel used for creation) to SSRS generated reports. These reports are currently exported Daily in .MHTML format that are used on our internal web site.

    I am already getting some requests for things that are either tougher or not available in SSRS (IE: trend lines, second Axis, multiple legends with secondary information about the data shown).

    I am curious how others are outputing reports from SSRS for use in your companies? I have thought about having to output my data to excel anyway and use it for the graphing functions, since it is so much better than what we have with SSRS.

  • I tend to use the same format as you, rarley I output to Excel, last time I did that was when I sent the output to a group (AD) that requested it in Excel format.

    I quite like SSRS graphs though.

  • Thanks for the feedback. I have been getting requests for using Trendlines to see how things are going over say an 18 month rolling time frame. Any ideas on how to accomplish that?

    I just had a need to create/change to using two Axis on a report as the numbers were related but were on two different levels (hundreds/thousands) vs (hundred thousands). I like SSRS, but am not sure how much I will be able to leverage it. We have some serious Excel folks here (that was their "database" of choice before I got here. 🙂 )

  • Im guessing you should check out calculated series - I have used these before to get a "moving average" over a set of data.

    Ah excel, you got to love it. says the SQL DBA 😀

  • Thanks, I will check out calculated series. Cheers.

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