Firefox(2?) report rendering problems

Hi, recently added a reportviewer control to a page and it rendered
incorrectly in Firefox 2. So we made a custom report control that calls the
reporting services and renders in HTML 4.0 and the formatting is still messed
up. Basically everything is crammed into the left 5% or so of the page so
all of the text is a jumbled mess. Has anyone tried their reports in Firefox
2 and had success? Anyone encountered this same problem? Thanks!
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Brian Orrell
Pariveda SolutionsYes, we have the same problems:
Fixed some of them based on info found here:
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/09/01/SQL-Reporting-Services-_2D00_-CSS-fix-for-Firefox.aspx
Steve MunLeeuw
"Brian Orrell" <BrianOrrell@.community.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi, recently added a reportviewer control to a page and it rendered
> incorrectly in Firefox 2. So we made a custom report control that calls
> the
> reporting services and renders in HTML 4.0 and the formatting is still
> messed
> up. Basically everything is crammed into the left 5% or so of the page so
> all of the text is a jumbled mess. Has anyone tried their reports in
> Firefox
> 2 and had success? Anyone encountered this same problem? Thanks!
> --
> Brian Orrell
> Pariveda Solutions|||I've been using this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/
Kevin
"Brian Orrell" <BrianOrrell@.community.nospam> wrote in message
news:D5DF5511-A10F-4C87-B584-943798C02E0A@.microsoft.com...
> Hi, recently added a reportviewer control to a page and it rendered
> incorrectly in Firefox 2. So we made a custom report control that calls
> the
> reporting services and renders in HTML 4.0 and the formatting is still
> messed
> up. Basically everything is crammed into the left 5% or so of the page so
> all of the text is a jumbled mess. Has anyone tried their reports in
> Firefox
> 2 and had success? Anyone encountered this same problem? Thanks!
> --
> Brian Orrell
> Pariveda Solutions

Firefox rendering problem

When using Report Viewer within VS 2005, If I enable to show the toolbar, my tables show up scrambled under Firefox.

Any ideas?

I am having the same problem!

Anyone have suggestions?? My clients would like to view reports in both IE and Firefox.

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Hi Theresa - Just saw another note on this. With the Active X that's not possible. I've moved my clients over to a zero footprint product LGX Report (www.logixml.com) for that reason. The product is free and there is a more robust version or maybe two I think for advanced features. I had one client that wanted dashboards so they purchased their top product.

good luck

Steve

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Hey,

I am facing the same problem. Were any of you guys able to get it working.

Let me know if you were able to do it or can suggest some ways to get round it.

Thank You.

Shree Kumar

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Is there a fix out there for this issue? Is Crystal the answer? There is not a lot of info/docs for the ReportViewer control :(

Craig

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I also have the same issue. Looks like ReportViewer is not compatible with FireFox.

Some interesting links:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251673(VS.80).aspx - MS basically says we support it, but not really

http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/09/01/SQL-Reporting-Services-_2D00_-CSS-fix-for-Firefox.aspx -- a fix for the "height issue"

Eric

Firefox Rendering Issues

Hi,
Anyone know how I can make reports render properly using Firefox?
When I look at reports, they are all squashed up in side a 4 cm tall iframe.
TIA
TonyGUpgrade to SQL Server 2005 when it comes out. I don't think they fixed it in
RS SP2.
"TG" wrote:
> Hi,
> Anyone know how I can make reports render properly using Firefox?
> When I look at reports, they are all squashed up in side a 4 cm tall iframe.
> TIA
> TonyG
>|||write a small javascript to disable the style
attribute of images.
Kanchana
"TG" wrote:
> Hi,
> Anyone know how I can make reports render properly using Firefox?
> When I look at reports, they are all squashed up in side a 4 cm tall iframe.
> TIA
> TonyG
>

FireFox 1.5.0.1 w/ SRS 2000 Toolbar Broken

I'm having a problem with report rendering in FireFox 1.5. For some reason the toolbar is about 200px high with some of the toolbar icons wrapping. Worse, the toolbar doesn't work. The first/next/back/last icons don't work and the page number textbox is disabled. Export doesn't work either. So basically it's not even useable. I've read that offically the Find/Print features are not supported for FireFox, but nothing beyond that. I also have had the same problem that I've seen in other forums where the report table itself is squished. I was able to fix that by using the solution that has been posted. For those that care, the solution involves adding a textbox with cangrow = false.

It's pretty frustrating that what is otherwise a very good reporting service can't operate with a 1st tier browser like FireFox. Hopefully I'm just missing something.. Anyone know a fix for the toolbar? Does FireFox 1.5 work ok with SRS 2005?

It seems the toolbar worked in FireFox 1.0.7, and has since broken in 1.5. Can anyone confirm this? Does anyone know a fix for this beyond hidding the toolbar and writing a custom one?

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.reportingsvcs/browse_thread/thread/187e360315edc91d/fe0e2b26732cff4d?q=firefox&rnum=19#fe0e2b26732cff4d

Firefox

Does anyone know if Firefox rendering for HTML reports has been imporved in Katmai RS?

Michael

Did you try installing SP2? We made some fixes there. If there is a specific report that isn't working, you could post it to http://connect.microsoft.com. We don't have anything major planned for 2008.

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Brian,

My matrix report still comes out very narrow (just a few pixels) per column, even with SP2. Is there a way to avoid this besides putting transparent gif's in the column?

Michael

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Are you using the ReportViewer control to view the report? Or are you using Report Manager?

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Actually, I'm calling the report through a web service, and having it render the HTML directly.

Michael

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Hi Michael,

We did address the issue you described in Service Pack 2 of SQL 2005. The fix required that we output slightly different HTML for IE vs. FireFox. When looking at the report through the ReportViewer control, all the appropriate user agent information is sent to the server so that the renderer can return the proper output. However, when rendering reports via the web service there is nothing that sends the user agent -- the solution is to do it yourself.

You should add the DeviceInfo parameter "UserAgent" and set the value to "Gecko". This will tell the renderer to emit FireFox HTML.

Best regards,

Chris

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Ah! Perfect. I'll give that a try. Thanks for the tip. I didn't see it in the instruction manual.

Michael

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Chris,

I tried that, and the result was a little better, although most of my borders did not display, the column width for the first two columns was off, and for some reason, the page brought my Firefox browser to a sluggish standstill, the kind you'd expect if you were viewing a 25MB HTML page. I can send you the before and after versions if you'd like.

Michael

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Hi Michael, yes I would like to see the output that you are getting. Can you send me the HTML files?

Thanks,

Chris

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Yes, I will e-mail them right now.

Michael

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Chris,

I tried sending you the files to the e-mail listed in your profile, but my server said "Sorry, I couldn't find any host named online.microsoft.com.". What is the best way to get you the files?

Michael

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Hi Michael, that's weird... try removing the "online." part and try agian.

Thanks for your patience,

Chris

Firefox

Does anyone know if Firefox rendering for HTML reports has been imporved in Katmai RS?

Michael

Did you try installing SP2? We made some fixes there. If there is a specific report that isn't working, you could post it to http://connect.microsoft.com. We don't have anything major planned for 2008.

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Brian,

My matrix report still comes out very narrow (just a few pixels) per column, even with SP2. Is there a way to avoid this besides putting transparent gif's in the column?

Michael

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Are you using the ReportViewer control to view the report? Or are you using Report Manager?

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Actually, I'm calling the report through a web service, and having it render the HTML directly.

Michael

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Hi Michael,

We did address the issue you described in Service Pack 2 of SQL 2005. The fix required that we output slightly different HTML for IE vs. FireFox. When looking at the report through the ReportViewer control, all the appropriate user agent information is sent to the server so that the renderer can return the proper output. However, when rendering reports via the web service there is nothing that sends the user agent -- the solution is to do it yourself.

You should add the DeviceInfo parameter "UserAgent" and set the value to "Gecko". This will tell the renderer to emit FireFox HTML.

Best regards,

Chris

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Ah! Perfect. I'll give that a try. Thanks for the tip. I didn't see it in the instruction manual.

Michael

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Chris,

I tried that, and the result was a little better, although most of my borders did not display, the column width for the first two columns was off, and for some reason, the page brought my Firefox browser to a sluggish standstill, the kind you'd expect if you were viewing a 25MB HTML page. I can send you the before and after versions if you'd like.

Michael

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Hi Michael, yes I would like to see the output that you are getting. Can you send me the HTML files?

Thanks,

Chris

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Yes, I will e-mail them right now.

Michael

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Chris,

I tried sending you the files to the e-mail listed in your profile, but my server said "Sorry, I couldn't find any host named online.microsoft.com.". What is the best way to get you the files?

Michael

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Hi Michael, that's weird... try removing the "online." part and try agian.

Thanks for your patience,

Chris