Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Possible to add a Flash Player control to a report?

I'm working on a project where the client wants us to create custom charts which have features not found in the standard Reporting Services charts. I would like to use flash to build this and have found an existing flash charting package for which I have the code and which I plan to expand.

Here's the problem:

The client wants to include these charts in his Reports. Is there some way to add a flash control to a report so that it will appear on the web page as a fully-functional flash presentation, which can then be included when printing or exporting?

The alternative, would be to figure out some means of generating the chart using flash outside of the report, exporting a bitmap of the chart and then saving the bitmap to a known location on the file system so It can be referenced by a report. This has some serious complications, and may not be feasible.

Any ideas?

Embedding flash into reports is not supported. While there are several third party advanced charting packages available which specifically integrate with SSRS2005 Standard, Enterprise, or Developer editions (based on the CustomReportItem extensibility feature), they also cannot use flash because it is currently not supported.

-- Robert

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