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Uploading multiple Reports to the Report Server using .Net

Leave a comment Posted by on March 8, 2012

Continuing the series on Programming for Reporting Services, we will see how to upload multiple reports (*.rdl) files present in a folder, to the Report Server. While this can be done using Report Manager (uploading the reports one-by-one), this obviously is not an efficient way of doing it. In this post, we will see how we can automate the task using .Net.

The code, here assumes that all the *.rdl present in a file system folder would be uploaded to the same Report Server folder. if you require to add reports to multiple folder, then I suggest you create a folder hierarchy, to replicate your Report Server folder hierarchy.

For the purpose of this post, I have created the below mentioned folder hierarchy. Each folder contains some report, which needs to be uploaded to the report server. The reports would be uploaded to a similar folder hierarchy on the Report Server. If the folders do not exists on the Report Server, it would be first created and then the report uploaded.

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Each of this folders contain some RDL file, which needs to be uploaded to the Report Server. I have created a Console Application for this purpose.

The First step would be create a method to iterate through the folder structure and read the RDL files.  Then we would need a method read the RDL files and get the report definition. This can be done using one of the IO stream classes in .Net. In my console Application, I have added a C# class named ReadReportDefinition.cs. Code included below.

   1: public static class ReadReportDefinition

   2:     {

   3:         public static void IterateFolderHierarchy(string folderpath)

   4:         {

   5:             ConfigureReports cr = new ConfigureReports();

   6:             string connectionString = "data source=." + ";Initial Catalog=PowerSaverLogs";

   7:             cr.UploadDataSource("PowerManagementDataSource", "SQL", connectionString);

   8:             try

   9:             {

  10:                 DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(folderpath);

  11:                 try

  12:                     { 

  13:                         DirectoryInfo[] subdirectories = 

  14:                                     dir.GetDirectories("*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);

  15:                         byte[] ReportDefinition = null;

  16:                         foreach (DirectoryInfo Dir in subdirectories)

  17:                         {

  18:                             cr.CheckReportServerFolder(Dir.Name);

  19:                             FileInfo[] ReportFiles = Dir.GetFiles("*.rdl");

  20:                             foreach (FileInfo file in ReportFiles)

  21:                             {

  22:                                 FileStream stream = File.OpenRead(file.FullName);

  23:                                 ReportDefinition = new Byte[stream.Length];

  24:                                 stream.Read(ReportDefinition, 0, (int)stream.Length);

  25:                                 stream.Close();

  26:                                 cr.UploadReports(Dir.Name,ReportDefinition, file.Name.Substring(0, (file.Name.Length - 4)));

  27:                                 ReportDefinition = null;

  28:                             }

  29:  

  30:                         }

  31:                 }

  32:                 catch(System.IO.IOException E)

  33:                     {

  34:                         Console.WriteLine("System Exception Message" + E.Message);

  35:                     }

  36:                 

  37:             }

  38:             catch(System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException e)

  39:             {

  40:                 Console.WriteLine("System Exception Message" + e.Message);

  41:             }

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The next step, would be to add a reference to one of the Reporting Services endpoints, and then dynamically binding it to the Report Server, where the reports needs to be uploaded. For information about, how to add a reporting service endpoint and dynamically bind it to a Report Server, click here.

The next step, is to create a class or methods to call the ReportingService2010 endpoint (this is what I am using in my code) and perform the required actions. In this case, I created a new Class “Configure Reports” to perform the desired operations.

This class has 3 methods, and the constructor. In the constructor, I dynamically bind the endpoint to my Report Server instance.

  • CheckReportServerFolder: Checks if a particular folder exists on the report server on not. This uses the ReportingService2010 Listchildren method.
  • UploadReports : Uploads reports to the Report Server. This function calls the ReportingService2010 CreateReport method.
  • UploadDataSource: To upload the datasource to the report server. Uses the ReportingService2010 CreateDataSource function. 
   1: using System;
   3: using System.Linq;

   2: using System.Collections.Generic;

   4: using System.Text;

   5: using System.Web.Services;

   6:  

   7: namespace UploadMultipleReports

   8: {

   9:     public class ConfigureReports

  10:     {

  11:         private const string Root = "/";

  12:         private ReportingService2010 rs;

  13:  

  14:         public ConfigureReports()

  15:         {

  16:             try

  17:             {

  18:                 // Connect to Reporting Services

  19:                 rs = new ReportingService2010();

  20:                 rs.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

  21:                 rs.Url = "http://localhost/reportserver/ReportService2010.asmx";

  22:             }

  23:             catch (System.Exception ex)

  24:             {

  25:                 Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);

  26:             }

  27:  

  28:         }

  29:         public void CheckReportServerFolder(string foldername)

  30:         {

  31:             int count = 0;

  32:             int datasourcecount =0;

  33:             try

  34:             {

  35:                 CatalogItem[] list = rs.ListChildren("/", false);

  36:                 foreach (CatalogItem c in list)

  37:                 {

  38:                     if ((c.TypeName == "Folder") & (c.Name == foldername))

  39:                         count += 1;

  40:                     if((c.TypeName=="Data Source")& (c.Name == "PowerManagementDataSource"))

  41:                         datasourcecount+=1;

  42:                 }

  43:                 if (count == 0)

  44:                     rs.CreateFolder(foldername, "/", null);

  45:             }

  46:             catch (Exception e)

  47:             {

  48:                 Console.WriteLine(e.Message);

  49:             }

  50:         }

  51:         public void UploadReports(string ParentFolder,byte[] definition,string ReportName)

  52:         {

  53:             try

  54:             {

  55:                 string parent = "/" + ParentFolder;

  56:                 /// Create the Reports

  57:                 ///

  58:                 Warning[] warnings = null;

  59:                 rs.CreateCatalogItem("Report", ReportName, parent, true, definition, null, out warnings);

  60:                 if (warnings != null)

  61:                 {

  62:                     Console.WriteLine("Report {0} could not be uploaded to folder {1}", ReportName, ParentFolder);

  63:                     foreach(Warning war in warnings)                    

  64:                         Console.WriteLine("Warning Generated {0}", war.Message);

  65:                 }

  66:             }

  67:             catch (Exception e)

  68:             {

  69:                 Console.WriteLine(e.Message);

  70:             }

  71:  

  72:         }

  73:         public void UploadDataSource(string name, string extension, string connstring)

  74:         {

  75:             const string Parentpath = "/";

  76:             DataSourceDefinition definition = new DataSourceDefinition();

  77:             definition.CredentialRetrieval = CredentialRetrievalEnum.Integrated;

  78:             definition.ConnectString = connstring;

  79:             definition.Extension = extension;

  80:             definition.Enabled = true;

  81:             definition.EnabledSpecified = true;

  82:             definition.ImpersonateUserSpecified = true;

  83:             // Use the default prompt string.

  84:             definition.Prompt = null;

  85:             definition.WindowsCredentials = false;

  86:             try

  87:             {

  88:                 rs.CreateDataSource(name, Parentpath, false, definition, null);

  89:             }

  90:             catch (Exception e)

  91:             {

  92:                 Console.WriteLine(e.Message);

  93:             }

  94:         }

  95:     }

  96: }

Once the classes are in place, all we need to do is call them in the application main function.

   1: class Program

   2: {

   3:     static void Main(string[] args)

   4:     {

   5:         Console.WriteLine("Enter Report File Root Directory");

   6:         string folderpath = Console.ReadLine();

   7:         ReadReportDefinition.IterateFolderHierarchy(folderpath);

   8:         Console.ReadLine();

   9:     }

  10: }

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