Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Format Parameter
The Format parameter is the main parameter for controlling the report output. The available values for
this parameter are determined by the different rendering extensions available on your report server. The
following table shows the output formats available with the default installation of Reporting Services:
Value
Output
Web Formats
HTML3.2
HTML version 3.2 output. Used for older browsers.
HTML4.0
HTML version 4.0. This format is supported by newer browsers, such
as Internet Explorer 4.0 and above.
MHTML
MHTML standard output. This output format is used for sending
HTML documents in e-mail. Using this format will embed all
resources, such as images, into the MHTML document instead of ref-
erencing external URLs.
Print Formats
IMAGE
The IMAGE format allows you to render your reports to a number of
different graphical device interfaces (GDI) such as BMP, PNG, GIF, or
TIFF.
PDF
The Portable Document Format (PDF) can be used for viewing and
printing documents.
Data Formats
EXCEL
Excel output. Users can use this format to further manipulate report
data.
CSV
Comma Separated Value (CSV) format. CSV is a standard data format
and can be read by a wide variety of applications.
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. XML has become a stan-
dard data format, used by many different applications.
Control Format
NULL
The NULL provider allows you to execute reports without rendering.
This can be very useful when working with reports that have cached
instances. You can use the NULL format to execute the report for the
first time and then store the cached instance.
When you set the rendering formats via the URL, the report will either be rendered directly in the browser,
or you will be prompted to save the output file. Let's take a look at rendering the Customer Product Sales
Pivot report in PDF format. Enter the following URL using the
rs:Format=PDF
parameter:
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