Chapter 17Introducing Reporting Services Mobile Reports
The purpose of this chapter is to introduce Mobile Reports and the best use for different types of visual controls. We begin by comparing the capabilities of mobile and paginated reports, and then explore the essential building blocks of mobile report design. This chapter introduces each of the visual control categories and explains the best use of each control in a mobile report solution.
Having choices and options provides freedom to use different tools to create reporting and data presentation experiences for different purposes. Freedom and flexibility bring the need to make more decisions, and sometimes choosing the right tool is a trade-off between the strengths of one tool and the limits of another that is used to achieve different results. As I have used SQL Server Reporting Services and watched the platform mature over the past fourteen years or so, one thing became very clear: Reporting Services was primarily intended for and is optimized to be used in a web browser on a desktop computer. I have used previous versions of SSRS to create reports for smaller screens and mobile devices. It met the basic need to display information in a simple layout with bold graphics and text and with sufficient rendering fidelity and navigation, but it was ...
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