Reporting Services and Programming - Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 - page 402

• PowerShell for Report Server in the Native mode
• PowerShell for Report Server Integration with SharePoint Server
• Windows Management Instrumentation
• Reporting Services utilities
• Incorporating custom code into report
URL access
One way to access the Report Server, Native or SharePoint Integrated, is by sending
a URL request. This is quite useful in the absence of the report manager. Sending a
request to the URL allows you to customize the rendering of the report in both modes
of Report Server installations. You can customize the report by utilizing specific
prefixes and parameter information, together with the URL request. This not only
gives specific features of the report, but also the format in which you want the report
to be rendered. Once you have fashioned the URL request string, all you need to do
is just e-mail it or paste it as a link to a Web page, so that others can also access the
report (assuming they have access to the Report Server). URL access allows you to
carry out the following actions on the server:
• Interact with the HTML viewer by sending commands to tweak
• Give access to folder contents
• Get the XML of an item on the server
• Render a snapshot in report history
• Report session management
The syntax for URL access is as follows:
rswebserverurl?reportpath[&prefix:param=value]...n]
The basic information you need to provide to carry out any of the preceding action is
by using the URL access information you find at, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/1c3e680a-83ea-4979-8e79-fa2337ae12a3 .
Here is a summarized list of the prefixes (prefix in the syntax above and within
parentheses below) available:
• HTML Viewer commands ( rc: )
• Report Server commands ( rs: )
• ReportViewer Web commands ( rv: )