Comments on: Disabling Export Formats in Reporting Services

By: Rup

Rup — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:29:57 +0000

is it possible to add close button or close option on Report Viewer bar.

By: whizkidguys

whizkidguys — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:10:17 +0000

I’ve tried by adding your method DisableUnwantedExportFormats() for hiding Export to Excel option. When report loaded first time the excel option not getting visible.

However, When I used to call the same method inside of Drillthrough() event “Excel” & PDF option getting visible in Export controls dropdown. I’ve tried by calling your method in the first statement of my Drillthrough() event,(like what I used in Page load method).

Please let me know, How can I hide the excel option in Drillthrough() event of Reportviewer.

By: sipho

sipho — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:41:39 +0000

Thanks, it really helped me as well. It was easy to implement.

By: chenman

chenman — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:55:18 +0000

Thanks you all for this wonderful solution. I had the similar issue as Chad. We have Reporting Services 2008, SQL SERVER 2008 R2, so Chad’s solution worked out great for me.
Chad: I have a quick question, what was the change that you made to your web.config (formats to disable).

By: hellbinder

hellbinder — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:50:50 +0000

I love you! This is what I needed for at least plan B. I am actually trying to check if the report exceeds the 256 column, is that possible? Because I want to disable the export option if it does exceed the column count of 256.

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:52:40 +0000

I am working for a company that has Reporting Services 2008, SQL SERVER 2008 and develops with VB. Here is the converted VB code.

Public Class ServerReportDecorator
Private ReadOnly serverReport As ServerReport

Public Sub New(ByVal reportViewer As ReportViewer)
Me.serverReport = reportViewer.ServerReport
End Sub

Public Sub New(ByVal serverReport As ServerReport)
Me.serverReport = serverReport
End Sub

Public Sub DisableUnwantedExportFormats()
For Each extension As RenderingExtension In serverReport.ListRenderingExtensions()
If extension.Name = “XML” Or extension.Name = “IMAGE” Or extension.Name = “MHTML” Or extension.Name = “EXCEL” Or extension.Name = “WORD” Then
ReflectivelySetVisibilityFalse(extension)
End If
Next
End Sub

Private Sub ReflectivelySetVisibilityFalse(ByVal extension As RenderingExtension)
Dim info As FieldInfo = extension.GetType().GetField(“m_isVisible”, BindingFlags.NonPublic Or BindingFlags.Instance)

If Not info Is Nothing Then
info.SetValue(extension, False)
End If
End Sub
End Class

By: Rob Kostecki

Rob Kostecki — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:09:03 +0000

I stumbled across similar challenge today using VS 2008 and SQL 2005 (9.00.4035.00). I found out that the “m_serverExtension” actually does not exists nor “Visible”. So just for a quick reference please find the code below.
Bear in mind you will have to reference System.Reflection namespace. Also using Microsoft.SqlServer.ReportingServices2005.Execution namespace is not required nor Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll assembly ref.

public void DisableUnwantedExportFormats()
{

FieldInfo info;

foreach (RenderingExtension extension in rvMain.ServerReport.ListRenderingExtensions())
{
if (extension.Name != “PDF” && extension.Name != “EXCEL”) // only PDF and Excel – remove the others
{
info = extension.GetType().GetField(“m_isVisible”, BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
info.SetValue(extension, false);
}

if (extension.Name == “EXCEL”) // change “Excel” name on the list to “Excel 97-2003 Workbook”
{
info = extension.GetType().GetField(“m_localizedName”, BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
if (info != null) info.SetValue(extension, “Excel 97-2003 Workbook”);
}
}
}

Hope this helps!

By: [c#] Microsoft Report Viewer - Forum Fachinformatiker.de

[c#] Microsoft Report Viewer - Forum Fachinformatiker.de — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:30:05 +0000

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By: mike

mike — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:34:27 +0000

If you’re using Reporting Services with a DLL version of 9.0.0.0 (2008?) try Giulliano’s code snippet instead. My code example only works with Reporting Services 2005.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:57:14 +0000

I tried below code in my ReportViewer page, but does not work. Please help. Thanks,

foreach (RenderingExtension extension in ReportViewer1.ServerReport.ListRenderingExtensions())
{
if (extension.Name == “XML”)
{
FieldInfo info = extension.GetType().GetField(“m_isVisible”, BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
if (info != null)
{
info.SetValue(extension, false);
}
}

}