ReportServer scripting is probably the most complex but also the most powerful tool offered by ReportServer. In our newest tutorial we provide an introduction into scripting and the most common use cases.
To the tutorial: Getting Started with Scripting
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ReportServer comes with a flexible authentication mechanism that can be extended via ReportServer’s hookable plugin infrastructure. In the latest addition to our tutorial section we discuss how authentication works behind the scenes and what steps are necessary to extend ReportServer to use your custom authentication scheme.
We hope you find this latest addition useful and are looking forward to hearing your thoughts and comments.
Our latest addition to the tutorials explains how to set up ReportServer in Eclipse. This provides you with the ideal environment to dig deep into ReportServer. Whether you want to really dive into scripting or want to have a poke around ReportServer’s source code, this is the perfect start.
This is the first blog article on our freshly refurbished blog. It’s been a bit quiet here which we want to change and what is better than a bit of fresh paint for a fresh start. This blog post explains how to add support for SQL Server via the open source jTDS driver. The relevant code was sponsored by thr27, thanks a lot. In case you did something cool with ReportServer that you would like to showcase on our blog, feel free to contact us on info@infofabrik.de.
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In recent posts we already outlined the necessary steps to support additional databases in ReportServer. Today we will add to this series the script that allows to connect ReportServer with a Sybase database.
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In our last post we have outlined the general process on how to add support for additional databases to ReportServer. Today we will give another example by explaining the necessary steps on how to access a Vertica database with ReportServer.
By default ReportServer is shipped with support only for the most common database systems, although it can interact with virtually every database, that offers a JDBC compliant driver. In this post we will show how to develop a groovy script that adds support for the firebird database (www.firebirdsql.org) to ReportServer.