Creating a Custom Report

The Microsoft ReportViewer technology is used to display custom reports within the CommsExternalReporter. The use this technology requires a few additional steps that are outlined as follows.

Enter the Admin window and create a new query.
Select the Custom Report radio button as the Output format.
Click the OK button to display the Select RDLC Seed window.
Open the new RDLC file within Microsoft’s Visual Studio product. Note: Requires the Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools module installation within Visual Studio.
Define the new custom report using Visual Studio tools.

Note: The delivered seed.rdlc file contains a bitmap image of the Bentley Logo. Administrators are encouraged to change this bitmap to their own company logo.

Custom Report RDLC requirements

The OpenComms ExternalReporter contains two requirements for using RDLC files. Within each RDLC file, two parameters named ReportName and ReportDescr are required. These parameters are included in the delivered seed.rdlc and should not be deleted by the administrator.