Goal:
To view the table's data of the database for Microsoft Project from SharePoint 2010 and/or 2013 enterprise.
Problem:
Where can I find the raw data for Microsoft Project in the database? I would like see the detailed data for the project of the time, milestone etc.
SharePoint doesn't "know" about project management and saves the MS-Project file as one BLOB. Only Microsoft Project Server is capable of parsing MS-Project format and storing the data in a DB.
There are several free alternatives, though:
Parse the MS-Project XML file. That's actually not that difficult.
http://mpxj.sourceforge.net/ is a Java library for reading and writing MS-Project
http://www.project-open.org/ includes a MS-Project import (written by myself) that stores the MS-Project structures in a PostgreSQL database.
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I want to pull data from a SharePoint List on a daily basis into a csv file. However, I do not want to use server side PowerShell to acheive this, as I am not a site administrator.
If you have a SQL Server at hand, you could use SSIS it's explicitly designed for this kind of task.
http://dataqueen.unlimitedviz.com/2011/06/how-to-use-a-sharepoint-list-as-a-data-source-in-your-ssis-package/
Then you should use the Client-side object model. There are a lot of samples/examples around SO. So you use CSOM to read the SharePoint lists and use Office interop or XML office language to create Excel files.
I'm creating custom SSRS reports for a client that uses CRM Online. However, I'm not able to deploy reports that have SQL DataSource connections to them. I get the following error:
"Invalid Data Source. This report type is not supported. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online supports only reports that use Fetch XML data sources."
However, this error is somewhat untrue. Reason: When I download other custom reports from their CRM, the DataSources are all SQL connection strings with T-SQL queries.
So, there MUST be a way to deploy these reports. From within the client's network perhaps? I've not been able to find any details online thus far. Help?
I'm afraid there is no solution. CRM Online will only allow you to upload fetchXml based reports. There is no workaround (that I have heard of at least).
Are you sure that the other reports you downloaded are definitely custom (CRM allows some system reports to be SQL based) or if custom do they actually work (nevermind how they got there in the first place!).
Yes it's possible with couple of work around.
You need to create your data source for SQL and upload it on your CRM server. Do you have SSRS services running on your CRM server ? if yes then there would be 2 data sources available. One for CRM data source (fetch XML) and another for SQL server.if it's not there you need to create it .
Once you have those data source you are good to get your data in your SSRS report. Make sure your data source name should match with your SSRS report data source. (I have on-promise environment for my CRM 2011)
I have provided users with a view of a large data set through Sql Server Analysis Services, and they find it very easy and intuitive to manipulate.
However, I am now being asked to provide them with access to smaller and smaller data sets, for which Analysis Services is not a great fit. The reason is that they like the ease of manipulation of the data, and it's pretty flexible in it's presentation of the data.
Also, many of the data sets are available to retrieve via a REST API, in a tabular form, which I'd prefer to use rather than providing database access.
Can anyone recommend any tools or libraries (ideally open source) which:
provide an SSAS-like interface for building up a pivot table (with attributes grouped together rather than in a flat list)
can retrieve their data from a web service rather than a traditional DB?
(NB I thought about trying powerpivot, but I'm not really sure what I'd be getting myself into, so if anyone has any experience of using this I'd be interested to hear)
Powerpivot is an excel plugin for excel 2010 that uses the vertipaq engine. It has a language called DAX that is very similar to MDX,
more information can be found here
If you wish to use PowerPivot, you have three options:
1) Use PowerPivot from within Excel (it's a free add-in - be sure to install the edition that matches the edition of Excel you have, i.e. 2007 or 2010 and 32-bit or 64-bit). You are using the resources of the client machine in this configuration.
2) Use PowerPivot for SharePoint - this requires SPS 2010 Enterprise. It allows you to host (render) the PowerPivot workbook using resources from the SPS server.
3) Use SQL Server 2012 SSAS installed in Tabular mode (to build a BISM). BI Semantic Models are PowerPivot models which are hosted on a SQL Server instance. This requires a full SQL Server licence, so it's certainly not cheap. However, here you have the greatest flexibility for resources, as you can use (control/monitor) the resouces of your server.
For more information see my deck on the BISM on SlideShare.
I have Sharepoint 2007 site and have to implement filter (comboboxes) for the list of employees stored in external database.
I can develop web part with asp:DropDownList(s), data access library and asp:Repeater stuff, but don't wanna mess with paging and sorting. May be it's better to populate standard sharepoint list that will be present under my filters via my DAL ?
How would you implement such a task?
Here are my suggestions:
SharePoint List Source and Destination - this is a CodePlex project for an SSIS SharePoint adapter. We used it successfully earlier this year for transferring data between SQL Server and SharePoint.
Custom Timer Job - you could create a SPJobDefinition class that is your own mini-homespun ETL comparing the SharePoint list to the database tables and then making any necessary transfers.
Business Data Catalog (BDC) - I'm not a fan, but you might have better luck with it.
SharePoint 2010 - I'm not sure if this is an option, but I'll mention it. The BDC of SharePoint 2007 has grown into Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet, but it is supposed to be much improved for accessing external data.
We currently have some c# code that runs and imports data from a number of opml feeds and stores it in several sql server tables.
We are working in a moss environment and I am thinking the Business Data Catalog may be able to be utilised to make this process more robust/efficient.
Can anyone suggest if it can?
Yes it can, since the BDC is there spcifically to be able to use external data within sharepoint. You will need to have a SharePoint Enterprise edition license to user the BDC though...