Mozilla Firefox and Report Viewer Print control

Has anyone gotten the print control in report viewer to work with Firefox?
One of our clients insists on using firefox and we would like to use
reporting services. I found and downloaded the Mozilla Activex control and
plugin support, added the CLSID for the RSClientPrint control, but have not
had any success in having the control show up in the report viewer.
Microsoft's knowledge base talks about what does and doesn't work in Firefox,
but mentions only that the print control does not work in Safari. Any help
would be greatly appreciated!Hello HK,
Based on my research, the RSClinetPrint ActiveX Control also did not
support for the FireFox browser.
As an alternate, you could export the Report to PDF or Excel and then print
it.
Also, you may print the report in the FireFox directly.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Community Support
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==================================================This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.|||On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 06:56:02 -0700, HK <hk@.newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
>Has anyone gotten the print control in report viewer to work with Firefox?
>One of our clients insists on using firefox and we would like to use
>reporting services. I found and downloaded the Mozilla Activex control and
>plugin support, added the CLSID for the RSClientPrint control, but have not
>had any success in having the control show up in the report viewer.
>Microsoft's knowledge base talks about what does and doesn't work in Firefox,
>but mentions only that the print control does not work in Safari. Any help
>would be greatly appreciated!
Just a thought. Perhaps you could check the IETab plugin?
B.|||Thank you for your response.
After searching through the knowledge base, we decided to programatically
render the reports in pdf through the web service. This works well in firefox
and provides us with printing capability without having a two step process to
print (using report viewer and then exporting to pdf).
"Wei Lu [MSFT]" wrote:
> Hello HK,
> Based on my research, the RSClinetPrint ActiveX Control also did not
> support for the FireFox browser.
> As an alternate, you could export the Report to PDF or Excel and then print
> it.
> Also, you may print the report in the FireFox directly.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Sincerely,
> Wei Lu
> Microsoft Online Community Support
> ==================================================> When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
> that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
> ==================================================> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>|||Thanks - we did. But since it runs IE and our clients may not have IE
installed, we couldn't use it.
"Brian Tkatch" wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 06:56:02 -0700, HK <hk@.newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
> >Has anyone gotten the print control in report viewer to work with Firefox?
> >One of our clients insists on using firefox and we would like to use
> >reporting services. I found and downloaded the Mozilla Activex control and
> >plugin support, added the CLSID for the RSClientPrint control, but have not
> >had any success in having the control show up in the report viewer.
> >Microsoft's knowledge base talks about what does and doesn't work in Firefox,
> >but mentions only that the print control does not work in Safari. Any help
> >would be greatly appreciated!
> Just a thought. Perhaps you could check the IETab plugin?
> B.
>

Mozilla Firefox

The web interface for ReportServer does not work in Mozilla Firefox 1.0:
reports appear as blank pages.
Is this due to use of ActiveX controls in the browser, or is there some
other reason - and who's problem is it?
brianSomeone awhile back investigated this pretty extensively and I gather it has
to do with how the web interface was designed. It is not an active x
problem. If you want to provide support for Mozilla you will need to use
your own front end instead of the one provided by MS.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Brian Smith" <bsmith@.NO.SPAM.schemiotics.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uwkkBk5OFHA.580@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> The web interface for ReportServer does not work in Mozilla Firefox 1.0:
> reports appear as blank pages.
> Is this due to use of ActiveX controls in the browser, or is there some
> other reason - and who's problem is it?
> brian

Mozilla cannot run Reports ? Toolbar squishered?

I have most stuff configured to look good through Mozilla, and the reports
I'm working on themselves don't look bad in the browser.
However, the ReportViewer control Toolbar (with the export options, refresh
button etc) is compressed horizontally causing it to flow onto 3 or so
seperate horizontal lines, when it's rendered.
Now, I've tried running it in tables, divs, etc. I can't find anything on
the page which would cause this to happen. Does anyone know if this bar
does not display correctly through Mozilla?
I have a feeling it will not display correctly through Mozilla if it's made
up of mested tables (the ReportViewer toolbar) ?
Any light shone on the matter, appreciated.
Matt Swift"Matt Swift" wrote:
> I have a feeling it will not display correctly through Mozilla if it's made
> up of mested tables (the ReportViewer toolbar) ?
> Any light shone on the matter, appreciated.
http://validator.w3.org/ might help you, it will show you which particular
standards IE is set up to ignore here..|||How well does Mozilla handle other ActiveX controls? The ReportViewer
control Toolbar is an ActiveX control right?|||"veganopolis" wrote:
> How well does Mozilla handle other ActiveX controls?
Mozilla doesn't do ActiveX.
>The ReportViewer control Toolbar is an ActiveX control right?
No, it's ASP.NET which involves a lot of proprietary JavaScript-like
extensions, and some hidden form fields that contain gigantic strings that
look like this: dDw1MzgxO3Q8O2w8aTwxPjs+O2w8dDw7bDxp...etc etc.
Tim|||Although Mozilla doesn't support ActiveX out_of_the_box, there is an
ActiveX compatabe plugin: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm
(there are probably many more open source implementations of this.
quick googling...)
I am new to RS so I do not know how MS implemented their ReportViewer
control Toolbar. I only remember the similar solution they have use
with their Office apps, which was an ActiveX control.
Matt Swift: If this control toolbar is JS, and written by MS, I
wouldn't expect it to work at all for another browser. But I am still
interested in how this pans out.
sam

Mozilla allignment problem with reports

Hello,

I have generated reports in my web application using SQL Server Reporting services. Its working and displaying fine when I open the application in Internet Explorer. But with Firefox Mozilla, the display of report contents is not working proper. Please advise.

Thanks in advance,

Ambili.

Hi,

In Reporting Services, you use a Web browser to view reports and run Report Manager. Not all report functionality is supported by all browsers. The following table describes report functionality restrictions for the supported browsers.

Browser typeDescriptionMicrosoft 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.Netscape 7.2, Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 1.0.3, Safari 1.3, and Safari 2.0The following features are not supported in third-party browsers:· Document map· Searching within the report· Zoom· Fixed table headersThe following additional features are not available when viewing reports in Safari:· 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.

So please make sure if your explorer type match the needs to run reporting service.

For details, see
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156511.aspx

Thanks.

|||

Hello,

Thanks for the prompt response.
As you have specified, I could see that Searching within thereport is not possible with Mozilla, which is possible in IE.
But my major issue is that the data inside the report is notdisplaying properly ( i mean, the formatting of the report contents). In IE, data inside the report is displaying properly. But in Mozilla, only first character of each column is displayed in each row. Any help on this issue will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Ambili.

|||

If the output is mushed height-wise, add this to the ReportServices.css file:

* Fix report IFRAME height for Firefox */
.DocMapAndReportFrame
{
min-height: 860px;
}

For output mushed width-wise, add an empty textbox the width of the expected output.

Hope that helps.

|||

Hello,

Thanks a lot for the valuable information.It helped me to solve the problem in case of height-wise alignment in mozilla and I am working with the case of width-wise alignment issue using the idea which you have specified.

Thanks again.

-Ambili.

|||

Hi Corwin:

Thank you for the code help in the ReportServices.css file. It worked for me using:

/* Fix report IFRAME height for Firefox */
.DocMapAndReportFrame
{
min-height: 860px;
}

I just had to put the forward slash ( / ) in front of * Fix report IFRAME height for Firefox */