Rendering reports to Word format

Currently my company inserts graphs from Excel into a Word document. They
then update the Word document with explanations about their analysis.
The requirement is for the graphs in this Word document to come from
Reporting Services 2000. Analysts then need to be able to update the text in
the document.
The SoftArtisans product appears to provide the required functionality,
however, my company has very strict guidelines about introducing additional
software into the organisation.
Do you have any ideas about how to render the Word document, including
graphs and sub-reports using Reporting Services 2000?
My thanks in advanceI understand your dilemma, but I strongly suggest you attempt to leverage
commercial software that already does the job before trying to roll your
own.
If you have no other choice, get your hands on Office 2003 Interop
Assemblies. You can then render the report(s) through web service calls
(take a look at the Render() method). There are other methods that allow
you to get a list of the image streams for the report. You'll need to get
to the image streams and pull the chart image from the web service. Then
you can write the image(s) to the word document. This is one way to do it.
-Tim
"SuzyM" <SuzyM@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Currently my company inserts graphs from Excel into a Word document. They
> then update the Word document with explanations about their analysis.
> The requirement is for the graphs in this Word document to come from
> Reporting Services 2000. Analysts then need to be able to update the text
> in
> the document.
> The SoftArtisans product appears to provide the required functionality,
> however, my company has very strict guidelines about introducing
> additional
> software into the organisation.
> Do you have any ideas about how to render the Word document, including
> graphs and sub-reports using Reporting Services 2000?
> My thanks in advance