Inserting a document (PowerPoint, Word, PDF) into a report (SSRS 2

Hi,
Which is the best way to insert a document (Word, PowerPoint, PDF) into a
report, which is also rendered with the masn report?
Writing a custom report item? Rendering as image?
But how to do a page break?
Is there a commercial solution available?
I'm using SSRS 2005.
Thanks
EricHi Eric,
Welcome to the MSDN newsgroup.
As for the displaying rich binary document in SQL server 2005reporting
service report, do you mean HTML format report? If so, I think you can
consider using the Html <iframe> element to embed the binary document
(powerpoint, word, pdf....)... Of course, you may need to create a custom
report item which can render out the html <iframe> element. For normal web
page, we can embed an <iframe> like below:
=========================<iframe id="frmPPT" runat="server" src="http://pics.10026.com/?src=small.ppt" width="100%"
height="500" >
======================
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support
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rights.)|||Thanks Steven,
But the report should also be rendered to PDF, not only HTML.
After the SQL2005 documentation as custom report item only the type 'image'
is supported, this means that i can't render html. Or do you mean a new item
based on the textbox (overloaded)?
Is there no other solution?
Is MS not working on a Word render extension?
Thanks
Eric
"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> Welcome to the MSDN newsgroup.
> As for the displaying rich binary document in SQL server 2005reporting
> service report, do you mean HTML format report? If so, I think you can
> consider using the Html <iframe> element to embed the binary document
> (powerpoint, word, pdf....)... Of course, you may need to create a custom
> report item which can render out the html <iframe> element. For normal web
> page, we can embed an <iframe> like below:
> =========================> <iframe id="frmPPT" runat="server" src="http://pics.10026.com/?src=small.ppt" width="100%"
> height="500" >
> ======================> Hope this helps.
> Regards,
> Steven Cheng
> Microsoft Online Support
> Get Secure! www.microsoft.com/security
> (This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.)
>
>
>
>|||Thanks for your response.
For other format (PDf, ...) since they're binary format, I'm afraid there
is no support in the reporting service built-in components. This will
require the convertion between different format binary documents. Also, the
RS 2005 used to plan shipping a RTF/WORD render extension, however, it is
cancelled and I think one of the reason maybe there are already many 3rd
party convert tools for converting different format binary documents (like
word, pdf, chm, html...).
Regards,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support
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rights.)|||Hi Steven,
I do not fully agree with you. First there are not many RDL to Word, PDF or
HTML, ... converter available. I know only SoftArtisan, which isn't a fully
RDL to Word converter.
Second many of our customer in the financial industry want to have more
flexible reporting. This means they want to include "dynamic" informations
into the report which are not based one databases, ex. a word document with
personal informations for one client.
What's the meaning of a reporting server if you have at the end 2 documents?
For that we need a fully supported word renderer, or better a word report
item.
Are there more RDL to word converter available?
Thanks
Eric|||Thanks for your respones Eric,
Yes, so far there is no RDL to word render extension, as our dev team also
mentioned it's still a planed feature in future release. I think this is
also somewhat due to the open of new OFFICE XML format, the new word
rendering extension may mainly target the xml format which will be more
portable. BTW, the converter I mentioned earlier means some 3rd party tool
which can convert pdf, html(exiting file) to word , image or other format
though they not be directly plugged in SSRS.
Regards,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support
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