Report Viewer Compatibility

Question

Hello, i need a reporting tool to use in a asp.net mvc application. i'm trying the report viewer but i have some doubts...

 

is the report viewer multi browser and multi platform compliant?

i mean, can i render a report if i'm using an linux or mac system and a diferent browser than ie?

 

if not can someone give another suggestion?

Best Regards

Marco Teodoro 

Answer 1

I have seen people work with Report Manager on Firefox, this seems to be working for most of the functionality.
Some advanced techniques, like the document map, can give a few rendering issues.
Since Report Manager is a webapplication that renders reports in HTML, it should be multibrowser/platform.
Keep in mind though, that Report Manager is (probably) optimized for the IE family, so it might be wise to test your reports in a different browser as well to judge if the results are good enough for you.

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M. Streutker, Info Support | Blog

Answer 2

Hello, i need a reporting tool to use in a asp.net mvc application. i'm trying the report viewer but i have some doubts...

 

is the report viewer multi browser and multi platform compliant?

i mean, can i render a report if i'm using an linux or mac system and a diferent browser than ie?

 

if not can someone give another suggestion?

Best Regards

Marco Teodoro 

Hi, I use ReportViewer on my site . The old version is NOT compatible with all browsers. The new one (SSRS 2008 R2) will be. I did a lot of tricks  to make ReportViewer to show decent on IE6,IE7,IE8,FF,Chrome,Safari. Please see a few reports

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Alexei Cioina

Answer 3

Hi Marco Teodoro,

Sql Server Reporting Service web viewing experience was not especially targeted to be browser compatible with non-IE browsers. You can still see/export reports in those browsers, but most likely a lot of your reports will not look the same in FF/Chrome/Safari compared with IE. However, Just as Alexei Cioina said, SSRS 2008 R2, as well as with the new visual studio 2010 reportviewer (version 10), there was a lot of effort to make reports look much more consistent with  different browsers.

By the way, the following table describes feature availability for specific browser types:

 

Browser type	Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0 for Windows, with all service packs applied and scripting enabled.	Internet Explorer is recommended if you want to use all the available report functionality. Although you can use other browsers to view a report, Internet Explorer for Windows is the only browser that is guaranteed to support the complete set of features for working with reports.
Firefox, Netscape, Safari	The following features are not supported in third-party browsers: ·         Document map ·         Searching within the report ·         Zoom ·         Fixed table headers The following additional features are not available when viewing reports in Safari 3.0: ·         The Calendar control that is used to select dates on a parameterized report that runs on a report server has been disabled for Safari. Users must type the dates that they want to use. ·         Image source files that are retrieved from remote computers do not display correctly in Safari. ·         The client-side print control used for printing HTML reports.

 

Click this link for more information  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156511.aspx

 

Thanks,

Challen Foo