I have to generate downloadable good looking pdf reports containing text and chart based data for a commercial application. I found out itextsharp library ( http://itextsharp.com/ ) but it isn't as powerful as I expect.
What components do you use for this kind of requirements? The price is important for me too.
In my current role, I support and develop a .net 1.1 website which was developed by my predecessor.
For generating reports/ invoices/ etc, the site uses a find and replace system reading a template rtf file with a stream reader and writing the output using a streamwriter to an rtf file.
I have been asked to generate a new report for the system which has many more tables than the previous reports and is generally more sophisticated.
I have taken a lot of time in trying to develop this report with not much success as the rtf formatting (e.g par for a line break) is to me quite difficult to master causing the document to crash infrequently in word (!) The rtf solution although frustrating is quite a simple format that can be managed in code. But it takes a lot of time to set up the documents...
Is there a .net code library or similar anyone is aware of that can write rtf to generate tables and other simple formatting. I am restricted to using .net 1.1
If I have the time would like to redevelop this system. I have googled for a more sophisticated system and have seen how to use html, etc. in word docs, but I don't really want to run word on the web server. What are the current best practices to generate invoices/ reports etc. from data using .net? Should I stick with this rtf method or is there an easier/quicker/friendlier way! In this regard I'd consider anything - .net 1 to 4
The application is a typical business system so any links to other resources for requirements such as a document generation system, email system, diary management (tasks to do for a specific user )
i cant access crysrtal report after deployment in IIS i have depolyed my website the pages where my crystal report is just blank .. how can i access crystal reports????
View 1 RepliesI am having one Asp.net 3.5 application with SQL Server 2005 backend. I am generating few complex crystal reports with some formula in crystal itself and complex paging and grouping constraints. Now we are planning to atomize this process. We have 10 reports on the screen so:
--user will click on each report
--report get open in Crystal Report Viewer
--User will generate PDF from crystal report.
Now, we are thinking to atomize this, rather than giving link to crystal, we want to generate PDF directly when that page opens rather than making above three steps. Is it possible to open Crystal report in memory, save it as PDF and close it? Well, we have data so you might think that why don't we directly generate PDF from data with the tools like iTextSharp or other but in that case what about the grouping, paging, formula which crystal handle itself?
I am having a problem with my visual studio and crystal report. It's my first time using it.
When I add a new crystal report to my project, and try to add a chart, the chart menu is greyed out. Do I need to download any addin or I have missed out some .dll.
After reserving a ticket for an travel agency, I want generate a printable report using Crystal Report. I'm looking for a way to do that. Any video tutorial or something like that?
View 1 RepliesI have master page, menu on master page, i use asp roles and trim menu item based on user roles and rights this process is working fine.
Now i have to create some reports based on user roles, and responsibility in a company like country head will view country wide reports, manager region will only view regional report and rest will view reports related to them.
How can i achieve this efficiently using asp roles.
I want to mak a Dynamic Report Generator with the facility to create the report structure and change the report information.
whether I can use any crystal report generating tool or have to make my own report generator
how can I generate weekly and monthly attendance report calculating total attendance for each student that I have in mu database table?
View 1 RepliesI am having a requirement, where I need to have a pie-chart, i need text around pie-chart , the text should be a hyperlink. Ex: we have 3 three fields A,B,C. A's ratio is 30%, B's ratio is 40%, c's ratio is 30% So pie chart gets divided into 3 parts, outside the graph , we should get the label A(in A's area only), when we point on , tool tip should say "A's ratio is 30 %'. I am working in .Net 3.5, VS 2008, using MS chart control(added explicitly by executing MSChart.exe.
View 1 RepliesI am trying to add some filters to a gridview that I am working on, and I'm wondering if it is possible to generate links or buttons above the gridview based on the years returned in the dataset. For example, if my dataset contains dates from 2001, 2009, and 2031 in my date column, I would like to be able to take that data from my SQL query (getting a distinct list of years is not an issue), and generate the buttons. From there, I would filter the data in the gridview based on the user clicking the buttons.
Is dynamic generation of buttons possible in ASP.NET? I do have some other ideas of how to accomplish the same functionality, but I would prefer to do it this way.
I am trying to generate a pdf document using the following code which i picked up from one of these forums. It had worked fine when I exported a gridview to pdf.
Now I need to export HTML code to pdf. Can someone suggest how to proceed, possibly using the gridview exporting code below? Any other approach is also welcome.
Code:
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
filename = "DocumentName.pdf";
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=" + filename);
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
gridView1.RenderControl(hw);
StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString());
Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.B2, 10f, 10f, 10f, 0f);
HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);
string sFinanceReportpath = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["UploadFinanceReportPath"].ToString();
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, new FileStream(sFinanceReportpath + filename, FileMode.Create));
pdfDoc.Open();
htmlparser.Parse(sr);
pdfDoc.Close();
//Response.Write(pdfDoc);
//Response.End();
I would like to rotate the text on the Microsoft Chart control for the X Axiz, however it is not working. My code is as follows:
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How to enable group layout in chart expert of crystal report??
View 1 RepliesIf i selecting january it analyse the month value and generate the bar chart report for this how?
View 1 RepliesI am using crystal report and I am exporting data to PDF. In crystal report for a particular field I have HTML text as input. So I have set Text Interpretation as 'HTML Text' for that field in crystal report. But still in PDF few things are not working. That is, it is not showing bold, and bullets etc. Underline and color and font are working fine. HTML text is :
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I have text more than 1000 character in table. But I want show text from table in crystal report. When I show text in textbox crystal report text out from textbox and can’t seen all text.
For example:
Text out from t
extbox.
For me need like this:
Text out from textbox . it’s need me
How I can solve this?
I have an issue in using dot net chart control. In chart last column is not completely shown which give bad appearance and on right side of chart it looks like TickMark are enabled. I set MajorTickMark of AxisY2 disabled but still tick marks on right side.
View 2 Replieshow to freeze the x axis of the chart control in ms chart? need to use because data displayed at large amount that is scrollable.
View 1 RepliesI have a drop downlist,and next to it there is an MS bar chart.i want to change the datate of the MS chart ,once the user selects another year from the dropdownlist.
When the page loads ,the chart displays the default year(2011) and it works.The problem is that is does not change the data when you select another year from the dropdownlist.
Am I going mad/blind? Probably a combination of the two.
How does one go about removing the data labels from a pie chart with the new chart control in .net 4?
I can get these to display as tooltips absolutely fine, but ultiamtely I'd like the labels not to be present as it looks rather busy.
I've searched previous answers and seen code behind resolutions but surely there must be some sort of code infront option to turn these labels off?
I am using MS Chart control (3.5), and have a requirement where I need to display 2 pie charts. The datapoints for the pie charts is set programatically. My doubts are as follows:
1. Can I display both the pie charts in a single chart control and area, or do I have to use two controls? (Currently I am using two controls)
2. How can I maintain the same size for both the pie charts? This is my main concern, since the pie sizes keep changing, depending on the number of datapoints. I tried using custom properties like "MinimumRelativePieSize", but it's not working.
i'm trying to create a stacked bar chart on a vb web form using vs2010.My data source returns:
Error in Functionality Awaiting on Supplier
1IMT IssuesmActive6
IMT Issues,Awaiting on Supplier
2,IMT Issues,Awaiting on User 4
IMT Issues Closed 120
Login / Password Active
But I can't get this into a stacked chart. I know I must have to do quite a bit of work declaring what the series are and soforth, or having a different dataset but can't find any documentation on it.A link to some documentation or an example of a stacked chart from an sql datasource would be much appreciated.
I started using the awesome chart controls with my asp.net apps recently and so far they've been nothing short of breath taking. Right now I have a weird problem, on the first load of my page, the chart control appears correctly and the tooltip is correct, however, when I update it with new data, the chart displays correctly, but the tooltips are for the previous set of data.
I hope this makes sense. The first time I load the chart, the pie chart segments and tooltips are correct, after a partial postback (to get the new data), the pie chart segments are correct but the tooltips are for the previous data set.
Basically once the tooltips are set the first time, they can't be updated after that without a full page postback.
Here's how I set the tooltip:
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Anyone else noticed this behaviour and have a work around?
Currently my only workaround is to check for a partial postback and not render the tooltip, which I'd rather not do as the tooltip display actual statistical data as opposed to the pie itself (which uses percentages).
What I'm trying to do is take an instance of a control, and figure out what the markup would look like based on the property values set in the code behind. We've built a web-based web form designer. At the end of the design process we save the markup. For simple controls with supported types, generating the markup was easy. For complex controls with nested properties or unsupported types, we're faced with creating a custom markup generator for each custom control. I was hoping to find info out there that would jump start this development effort.
In simple terms, I have this:
Dim Ctl as Control = CType(Asm.CreateInstance("MyNameSpace.MyControl"), Control)
Ctl.Name = "Name of my control"
And I want to end up with this:
<cc1:MyControl ID="MyControl1" runat="server" Name="Name of my control" />