I have ssrs 2012 installed and sometimes when I deploy the reports via VS, certain linked reports won't update. The only solution I've found is to remove the linked reports and create a new linked report.
Anyone had this situation before and any solutions?
Thanks
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VS2017, Click "Create Report in Microsoft Excel", Excel 2016 opens, once I click Finish, throws this
"TF208071: The following error occurred when the command was generating PivotTable and PivotChart reports. Close the Microsoft Excel workbook and try again, or press F1 for more information.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
"
Recently upgraded TFS server to 2017, I can still generate the reports using Visual Studio 2012/2013 by connecting to the same TFS server. However not on VS2017.
Where do I start looking? None of the event logs show any such error.
I have 4 columns of data from the WI to export, so its not the amount of data.
Seems you are talking about create Excel reports from a work item query, try to clear TFS and VS cache and test again.
Besides, since you are using TFS2017 and VS2017, you could try to use this extension--VSTS Open in Excel, you could use this extension for bulk editing work items, or to leverage Excel tools to analyze and visualize a large number of work items. You could directly open work items in web portal.
Besides, as a workaround, you could still generate the reports using Visual Studio 2012/2013 by connecting to the same TFS server.
Hope it helps someone!
The issue is with the 2017 TFS COM Add-in, this has an issue used with Excel 2016. seems like a bug from Microsoft!
So we removed all the TFS addin from Excel2016. Then do a repair install of 2015 Office integration which will set V14 Com Add-in to load at start. Then it will export through VS2017 (using the 2015 COM IN)
You can also edit this through regedit, make the V14 OR V13 COM Add-in to load at startup by editing that specific TFS Addin to a value of 3 and setting all the rest to 0.
New to StackOverflow so sorry if I'm doing this wrong. Trying to get set up with SharePoint 2016 Development. Moving from SP2010 and need to look into getting some things updated. Have a 2016 single server farm set up for evaluation/development and have VS2015 installed on machine, but cannot for the life of me get SP2016 development templates to show up in VS. I had them briefly after installing the Office Development Tools preview, but after upgrading it to update 2 they're gone again! Please help.
Also, looking for good information on converting SP2010 projects to SP2016 if that's possible.
You need to install: Microsoft Office Developer Tools Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2015
I have always used Visual Studio to create my SSRS reports but I have recently been advised to switch over to and use report builder 3.0. I am wondering, are there are any advantages to using one over the other for SSRS report development?
Any known compatibility issues when trying to edit an .rdl in Report Builder 3.0 that was created in Visual Studio 2012?
I would say that the Report Designer (Visual Studio) targets Developers that have a Visual Studio edition, whereas Report Builder targets non-developer users, familiar with Office applications that will just need to let ClickOnce install Report Builder (but developers can use it too).
Report Builder has less features, but you can still do plenty of things with it, so it can be useful when you need to do a quick fix of the report, and you would take more time to do it with Report Designer.
Having said that, the following scenario is completely valid:
Create a report in the Report Designer
Deploy the report
Do a fix with Report Builder
Save the report (= deploys the report)
Here are the official descriptions of each environments:
Report Designer
Report Designer in Business Intelligence Development Studio is a
report authoring environment that is hosted in Microsoft Visual
Studio. Use Report Designer project and solution files to organize and
maintain a master copy of report definitions, report parts, shared
data sources, shared datasets, and resource files such as images and
ESRI shapefiles for maps.
Report Builder
Report Builder is a report authoring environment for business users
who prefer to work in the Microsoft Office environment. You work with
one report at a time. You can modify a published report directly from
a report server. You can quickly build a report by adding items from
the Report Part Gallery provided by report designers from your
organization.
More info on the differences between Report Designer and Report Builder:
Designing Reports in Report Designer and Report Builder 3.0 (SSRS)
Comparing Report Authoring Environments
There are some known compatibility issues with Visual Studio's newer versions and SSRS. If you want to preview your report, you will have some issues using newer versions of SSRS, and they will error out. That being said, once you publish them, they appear to work without issue.
Hope that helps.
I'm looking for some advice. I need to develop some custom workflow activities for a SharePoint 365 online solution. To that extent I do not have a local install of SharePoint 2013. I am using Visual Studio 2012, and have the office developer tools for VS 2012 installed.
When I try to create an empty project for SharePoint 2013, I get the error stating:
SharePoint not installed. The required version of SharePoint
foundation 2013 or SharePoint server 2013 is not installed on this
system. To develop SharePoint solutions or browse SharePoint
connections in server explorer, SharePoint must be installed on the
local system. Make sure that the local server referenced by the
SharePoint project exists
Now, I understand that for SharePoint projects in the past that a local install was required, but with this being online, I do not have that luxury.
Ideally I'd like to identify a way in which I can create an empty project without the need for said local install.
Further to this, I have been able to create an "Apps for SharePoint 2013" project, into which I can create a custom workflow activity. I'm working through some excellent blog posts on how to develop custom activities and it seems to be working file to a point.
What I am now struggling with is that VS2012 is supposed to create an .actions4 file which I can edit to reflect what the workflow activity requires etc. I do not have this file, nor do I understand how I get it.
I would also appreciate information on how I can deploy this custom workflow activity to SharePoint Online so that I can use it in SharePoint designer workflows.
Appreciate there is a lot of asks here, but appreciate any help that people can provide.
Many Thanks,
Grant
Hope this link will help you to create workflows in office 365 . you cannot degug but you can allow visual studio to think that SP is installed on your machine.
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/59065/how-visual-studio-checkes-that-sharepoint-has-been-installed-on-my-local-pc
I want to add a SharePoint 2013 Workflow to my App (Web). It is a List Workflow. Workflow Manager and Service Bus are installed.
When I create a Workflow and want to debug/deploy the App, the Workflow is not listed as Workflow in the List.
("There are no SharePoint 2013 Workflows associated with this list")
I don't know why, I don't know if its a development or a server configuration issue.
Has someone had the same problem, but solved it?
(Everything is programmed in Visual Studio 2012. Lists, and Workflows, too)
Thank you,
Loki
I was able to resolve this issue - to fix it you need to install SharePoint 2013 SP1. After doing it run following ps script on your server (see this post for details):
$WmsSap = Get-SPWorkflowServiceApplicationProxy
$WmsSap.RegisterWorkflowLifecycleManagementEnvironment()