ASCII and Reporting Services

Can Reporting Services create an ascii file? We are searchring for a tool that can handle with predefinied queries to generate week figures, month figures etc. These figures will be used in paper publications as well as in electronical publications.
Is it better to use DTS?
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Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.comOne of the formats you can pick to render in is csv. You can also render in
XML. So, it depends on what you are wanting to do.
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Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Helma Schapendonk-Maas via SQLMonster.com" <forum@.SQLMonster.com> wrote in
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> Can Reporting Services create an ascii file? We are searchring for a tool
that can handle with predefinied queries to generate week figures, month
figures etc. These figures will be used in paper publications as well as in
electronical publications.
> Is it better to use DTS?
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> Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com|||Even if you render in csv, its not a true csv. If you open up that csv in
excel, all the colums appears in one column, you have to than use that wizard
- Data-> text to column to create true csv. Another avidence of that file
not being ASCII, if you save that file you exported as csv, you will see
UNICODE in your save as dialogue. This has been a problem since day one.
This is the biggest issue why we can't use RS for our reports, because all of
our customer needs true csv and don't know how to use Data -> text to column
wizard of excel.
Thanks
Vipul
"Bruce L-C [MVP]" wrote:
> One of the formats you can pick to render in is csv. You can also render in
> XML. So, it depends on what you are wanting to do.
> --
> Bruce Loehle-Conger
> MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
>
> "Helma Schapendonk-Maas via SQLMonster.com" <forum@.SQLMonster.com> wrote in
> message news:eb94c01cd0524e8b8a7ef893548c9ddf@.SQLMonster.com...
> > Can Reporting Services create an ascii file? We are searchring for a tool
> that can handle with predefinied queries to generate week figures, month
> figures etc. These figures will be used in paper publications as well as in
> electronical publications.
> > Is it better to use DTS?
> >
> > --
> > Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com
>
>|||You can specify the format ascii as CSV Rendering Device Information Setting
if you add
&rc:Encoding=ASCII to the url generating the export
"Vipul Shah" wrote:
> Even if you render in csv, its not a true csv. If you open up that csv in
> excel, all the colums appears in one column, you have to than use that wizard
> - Data-> text to column to create true csv. Another avidence of that file
> not being ASCII, if you save that file you exported as csv, you will see
> UNICODE in your save as dialogue. This has been a problem since day one.
> This is the biggest issue why we can't use RS for our reports, because all of
> our customer needs true csv and don't know how to use Data -> text to column
> wizard of excel.
> Thanks
> Vipul
> "Bruce L-C [MVP]" wrote:
> > One of the formats you can pick to render in is csv. You can also render in
> > XML. So, it depends on what you are wanting to do.
> >
> > --
> > Bruce Loehle-Conger
> > MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
> >
> >
> > "Helma Schapendonk-Maas via SQLMonster.com" <forum@.SQLMonster.com> wrote in
> > message news:eb94c01cd0524e8b8a7ef893548c9ddf@.SQLMonster.com...
> > > Can Reporting Services create an ascii file? We are searchring for a tool
> > that can handle with predefinied queries to generate week figures, month
> > figures etc. These figures will be used in paper publications as well as in
> > electronical publications.
> > > Is it better to use DTS?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com
> >
> >
> >|||Here is an example of a Jump to URL link I use. This causes Excel to come up
with the data in a separate window:
="javascript:void(window.open('" & Globals!ReportServerUrl &
"?/SomeFolder/SomeReport&ParamName=" & Parameters!ParamName.Value &
"&rs:Format=CSV&rc:Encoding=ASCII','_blank'))"
Very nice and very fast.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"RDC" <RDC @.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> You can specify the format ascii as CSV Rendering Device Information
> Setting
> if you add
> &rc:Encoding=ASCII to the url generating the export
>
> "Vipul Shah" wrote:
>> Even if you render in csv, its not a true csv. If you open up that csv
>> in
>> excel, all the colums appears in one column, you have to than use that
>> wizard
>> - Data-> text to column to create true csv. Another avidence of that
>> file
>> not being ASCII, if you save that file you exported as csv, you will see
>> UNICODE in your save as dialogue. This has been a problem since day
>> one.
>> This is the biggest issue why we can't use RS for our reports, because
>> all of
>> our customer needs true csv and don't know how to use Data -> text to
>> column
>> wizard of excel.
>> Thanks
>> Vipul
>> "Bruce L-C [MVP]" wrote:
>> > One of the formats you can pick to render in is csv. You can also
>> > render in
>> > XML. So, it depends on what you are wanting to do.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Bruce Loehle-Conger
>> > MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
>> >
>> >
>> > "Helma Schapendonk-Maas via SQLMonster.com" <forum@.SQLMonster.com>
>> > wrote in
>> > message news:eb94c01cd0524e8b8a7ef893548c9ddf@.SQLMonster.com...
>> > > Can Reporting Services create an ascii file? We are searchring for a
>> > > tool
>> > that can handle with predefinied queries to generate week figures,
>> > month
>> > figures etc. These figures will be used in paper publications as well
>> > as in
>> > electronical publications.
>> > > Is it better to use DTS?
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com
>> >
>> >
>> >