I've done lots of BI work using SSRS in the past and have delivered lots of reporting suites but always by having the user go the report server to view the report. My new client wants to use SSRS and I mentioned (perhaps foolishly) that you could embed the reports directly into their intranet pages using a report view control. To demo this I've thrown together a simple ASP app with a menu going to a few web pages, each with a report viewer control on it pointing to a different report in Remote mode.
That's when I got the fright of my life. The control is butt ugly compared to the way it appears on the report server. The report server view is clean, neat and professional looking. The report viewer view is... well... I'm not sure I really have the words. The report output itself is fine but the parameters pane and the pane with the navigation, search controls etc. look awful. The parameters pane is flat and washed out looking, parameters which allow nulls have the "null" checkbox descriptor on a row under the checkbox itself instead of alongside. The navigation pane is even worse. Nothing lines up, there's a repeating horizontal colour gradient and all the buttons look big and clunky like they were designed by FisherPrice. Unfortunately I can't post a pic from where I am at the moment but will post one later today when I have the facility.
I'm really just asking, is this normal? If it is I'll start steering the client away from embedding the control and more towards simply linking to the server direct. I'm keenly aware, though, that it's quite possible this is something I've done wrong. Some setting I haven't set or something. I've had a google and can't see anyone else complaining which leads me to think it's something I've done wrong but I've a feeling it will be a needle in a haystack job and don't want to spend too much time on it if this is just normal.
That's when I got the fright of my life. The control is butt ugly compared to the way it appears on the report server. The report server view is clean, neat and professional looking. The report viewer view is... well... I'm not sure I really have the words. The report output itself is fine but the parameters pane and the pane with the navigation, search controls etc. look awful. The parameters pane is flat and washed out looking, parameters which allow nulls have the "null" checkbox descriptor on a row under the checkbox itself instead of alongside. The navigation pane is even worse. Nothing lines up, there's a repeating horizontal colour gradient and all the buttons look big and clunky like they were designed by FisherPrice. Unfortunately I can't post a pic from where I am at the moment but will post one later today when I have the facility.
I'm really just asking, is this normal? If it is I'll start steering the client away from embedding the control and more towards simply linking to the server direct. I'm keenly aware, though, that it's quite possible this is something I've done wrong. Some setting I haven't set or something. I've had a google and can't see anyone else complaining which leads me to think it's something I've done wrong but I've a feeling it will be a needle in a haystack job and don't want to spend too much time on it if this is just normal.