2005: Publishing (not exporting) Report in Excel format

My end users want me to post 2 versions of my 2005 Reporting Services
reports. One that when they click on it automatically opens in Excel w/o
grouping...sort of a data dump. Then a second that is grouped, formatted and
pretty.
I know that I can have them export the report once run into Excel, but they
don't want that. (of course...;) So, does anyone know how to publish in
straight Excel in Reporting Services?
thanks in advance for any help!
MachelleYou didn't say if you are using Report Manager or not. The best way is to
use jump to URL and render in CSV ASCII format. The default for CSV is
unicode which Excel opens up with all the data in its own column.
Depending on your report you may or may not want to have a duplicate report
that you have cleaned up and call that one rather than the pretty one.
Regardless, if you have any data size at all URL is much faster.
If you are using Report Manager you could have a report that has no data,
just the parameters and then textboxes, one for pretty, one for Data Export
(I call it that in my link to differentiate that it is a data export, not
the pretty Excel export).
Note, the fields texboxes of the report have a name property that is set
during design to the name of the field. You can give it friendlier names if
you want.
Here is an example of a Jump to URL link I use. This causes Excel to come up
with the data in a separate window:
="javascript:void(window.open('" & Globals!ReportServerUrl &
"?/SomeFolder/SomeReport&ParamName=" & Parameters!ParamName.Value &
"&rs:Format=CSV&rc:Encoding=ASCII','_blank'))"
Very nice and very fast.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
"Machelle" <Machelle@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My end users want me to post 2 versions of my 2005 Reporting Services
> reports. One that when they click on it automatically opens in Excel w/o
> grouping...sort of a data dump. Then a second that is grouped, formatted
> and
> pretty.
> I know that I can have them export the report once run into Excel, but
> they
> don't want that. (of course...;) So, does anyone know how to publish in
> straight Excel in Reporting Services?
> thanks in advance for any help!
> Machelle