Can I generate a report in my MVC 5 website without the Report Server

[Greg Obleshchuk]

Hello,

I'm looking for a simple way to generate a report in PDF format on my MVC website.  Can I use local processing to generate a PDF of a report?  I don't want to have to deploy a report server

cheers

Greg

[Yuvaraj Devarajan]

Hi Greg, 

We can achieve your requirement by using ReportWriter control to export the report into PDF, Excel, Word, PPT and HTML directly without using ReportServer in your application as shown in below code example. 

        public ActionResult Index(String writerFormat) 

        { 

            try 

            { 

                string fileName = null; 

                WriterFormat format;                

                HttpContext httpContext = System.Web.HttpContext.Current; 

                ReportWriter reportWriter = new ReportWriter(); 

                reportWriter.ReportPath = Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/GroupingAgg.rdl");                 

                reportWriter.ReportProcessingMode = ProcessingMode.Remote; 

 

                if (writerFormat == "PDF") 

                { 

                    fileName = "GroupingAgg.pdf"; 

                    format = WriterFormat.PDF; 

                } 

                else if (writerFormat == "Word") 

                { 

                    fileName = "GroupingAgg.doc"; 

                    format = WriterFormat.Word; 

                } 

                else if (writerFormat == "Html") 

                { 

                    fileName = "GroupingAgg.Html"; 

                    format = WriterFormat.HTML; 

                } 

                else 

                { 

                    fileName = "GroupingAgg.xls"; 

                    format = WriterFormat.Excel; 

                } 

                reportWriter.Save(fileName, format, httpContext.Response); 

            } 

            catch { } 

            return View()       

        } 

Please refer to the below UG documentation for more detail, 

https://help.syncfusion.com/aspnetmvc/reportwriter/getting-started#generate-rdlc-reports 

You can obtain the ASP.Net ReportWriter samples from the below build installed location,   

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Syncfusion\EssentialStudio\version\MVC\Samples\Web   

Regards, 

Yuvaraj D. 

[Greg Obleshchuk]

That's great , thank-you very much

[Yuvaraj Devarajan]

Hi Greg, 

 

Thanks for your update. We are happy to hear that your requirement is resolved. 

 

Regards, 

Yuvaraj D