12.1. Using Reporting Services Without the Report Manager
The Report Manager provides a nice interface for finding and executing reports. However, the Report Manager is not always the best way to deliver a report to your users. Perhaps the user is browsing your website or using a custom application and needs to view a report. In these situations, it does not make sense to force the user to jump to Report Manager and begin navigating folders. We want to deliver the report to the user right where they are. In this section, we explore several ways to do just that.
12.1.1. URL Access
One way to execute a report without using Report Manager is through URL access. URL access allows a browser or a program capable of issuing HTTP requests to specify ...
Get Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
