Accessing Reporting Services Reports from Mac

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Paul Paintin - 23 Aug 2006 12:23 GMT

Hi all.

Using a MacMini to access a Reporting Services 2000 installation and getting
some very strange results.

When using Safari I can browse the folders of the server, and can see the
reports, but they will not render at all.

In IE, I can render the reports but encounter missing entries in my
parameterised drop downs, and cannot seem to export to any format, PDF/Excel
etc.

Anyone come across this behaviour before, and know if it's 'by design' or
avoidable at all?

Many thanks,

Paul.

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Bruce L-C [MVP] - 23 Aug 2006 15:53 GMT

I have not heard of very much success at all with using MACs with RS2000. It
might be better with RS 2005 but I don't know.

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Paul Paintin - 23 Aug 2006 16:18 GMT

Update: tried accessing RS2005, exactly the same results - no exporting,
blank drop down parameter values.

Paul.

>I have not heard of very much success at all with using MACs with RS2000.
>It might be better with RS 2005 but I don't know.
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William Smith - 27 Aug 2006 17:28 GMT

> Update: tried accessing RS2005, exactly the same results - no exporting,
> blank drop down parameter values.
>
> Paul.
> >I have not heard of very much success at all with using MACs with RS2000.
> >It might be better with RS 2005 but I don't know.

Hi Paul!

I'm not familiar with Reporting Services. Does it require ActiveX? If
so, this is Windows only and won't work with any browser on a Mac.

If it doesn't require ActiveX, try a different web browser such as
Firefox. Firefox uses a different rendering engine than Safari and we
have found we're able to access more Windows-centric sites with it. As
for IE for Mac, that was discontinued a few years ago and was finally
pulled off Microsoft's website earlier this year.

Hope this helps! bill

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