Emailing report details

Hi,
I have a simple report that displays a page of text. I want to add a
button to it and
when the button is clicked a new outlook email is created with the
report as body, ready for the user to enter an email address.
Yes I know reports have subscriptions, they want a more adhoc
solution.
And users don't want the extra clicks of saving the report to file and
attaching it themselves.
Can it be done, is there an example?
thanks in advance.On Aug 1, 11:07 pm, paulhux...@.hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a simple report that displays a page of text. I want to add a
> button to it and
> when the button is clicked a new outlook email is created with the
> report as body, ready for the user to enter an email address.
> Yes I know reports have subscriptions, they want a more adhoc
> solution.
> And users don't want the extra clicks of saving the report to file and
> attaching it themselves.
> Can it be done, is there an example?
> thanks in advance.
There are not really any options available for this type of
functionality (aside from what you mentioned). If exporting the report
to PDF and attaching it to an email is an option, I would suggest
going the custom/ASP.NET application route. There is an open source
library available that can assist you in doing this: iTextSharp
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
). Otherwise, you will need to design a custom application that
includes a report viewer control that incorporates an SSRS report.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. Software Consultant|||On Aug 3, 11:31 am, EMartinez <emartinez...@.gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 1, 11:07 pm, paulhux...@.hotmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a simple report that displays a page of text. I want to add a
> > button to it and
> > when the button is clicked a new outlook email is created with the
> > report as body, ready for the user to enter an email address.
> > Yes I know reports have subscriptions, they want a more adhoc
> > solution.
> > And users don't want the extra clicks of saving the report to file and
> > attaching it themselves.
> > Can it be done, is there an example?
> > thanks in advance.
> There are not really any options available for this type of
> functionality (aside from what you mentioned). If exporting the report
> to PDF and attaching it to an email is an option, I would suggest
> going the custom/ASP.NET application route. There is an open source
> library available that can assist you in doing this: iTextSharp
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
> ). Otherwise, you will need to design a custom application that
> includes a report viewer control that incorporates an SSRS report.
> Hope this helps.
> Regards,
> Enrique Martinez
> Sr. Software Consultant
****************************
thanks Enrique|||On Aug 2, 9:05 pm, paulhux...@.hotmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 3, 11:31 am, EMartinez <emartinez...@.gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 1, 11:07 pm, paulhux...@.hotmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have a simple report that displays a page of text. I want to add a
> > > button to it and
> > > when the button is clicked a new outlook email is created with the
> > > report as body, ready for the user to enter an email address.
> > > Yes I know reports have subscriptions, they want a more adhoc
> > > solution.
> > > And users don't want the extra clicks of saving the report to file and
> > > attaching it themselves.
> > > Can it be done, is there an example?
> > > thanks in advance.
> > There are not really any options available for this type of
> > functionality (aside from what you mentioned). If exporting the report
> > to PDF and attaching it to an email is an option, I would suggest
> > going the custom/ASP.NET application route. There is an open source
> > library available that can assist you in doing this: iTextSharp
> > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/http://itextsharp.sourcefo...
> > ). Otherwise, you will need to design a custom application that
> > includes a report viewer control that incorporates an SSRS report.
> > Hope this helps.
> > Regards,
> > Enrique Martinez
> > Sr. Software Consultant
> ****************************
> thanks Enrique
You're welcome. Let me know if I can be of further assistance.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. Software Consultant