Consume Connection from Report Explorer Web Part

Hello!
I am writing a custom report viewer that I would like to work with the
Report Explorer web part in SP2.
I created my consumer web part and it is connected to the Report Explorer
but it does not seem to ever receive any data from the Report Explorer. Is
the Report Viewer web part the only web part that can consume the information
provided by the Report Explorer?
TIA!
BrianHi Brian,
Welcome to use MSDN Managed Newsgroup!
From your description, my understanding of this issue is: you want to write
the consumer web part to connect to the Report Explorer Web part. If I
misunderstood your concern, please feel free to point it out.
Based on my knowledge, the Report Explorer Web Part and the Report Viewer
Web Part use the technical "Connectable Web Part to handle the connections
between them. So if you want to customize your web part to connect to the
Report Explorer, you need to implement the ICellConsumer interface.
Here is a article talk about the technical "Connectable Web Part" and there
is the sample code for how to implement the interface.
Creating a Connectable Web Part
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/spptsdk/htm
l/CreateConnectableWP_SV01003714.asp
Using Reporting Services SharePoint Web Parts in SQL Server 2000 Reporting
Services Service Pack 2
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/webrssp2.mspx
#EIAA
Sincerely yours,
Michael Cheng
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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Thanks for the post.
Let me be a bit more specific. I already wrote a test web part implementing
the ICellConsumer interface.
When I connect it to the Report Explorer, the Cell that I get is an empty
string.
Actually, the CellReady method only seems to be called when the page loads.
Clicking on folders and reports in the Report Explorer does not seem to pass
any information to my web part. It passes something to the Report Viewer when
it is on the same page since instead of opening a new window to display a
report, the Report Viewer displays the report.
--
Take care,
Brian
"Michael Cheng [MSFT]" wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> Welcome to use MSDN Managed Newsgroup!
> From your description, my understanding of this issue is: you want to write
> the consumer web part to connect to the Report Explorer Web part. If I
> misunderstood your concern, please feel free to point it out.
> Based on my knowledge, the Report Explorer Web Part and the Report Viewer
> Web Part use the technical "Connectable Web Part to handle the connections
> between them. So if you want to customize your web part to connect to the
> Report Explorer, you need to implement the ICellConsumer interface.
> Here is a article talk about the technical "Connectable Web Part" and there
> is the sample code for how to implement the interface.
> Creating a Connectable Web Part
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/spptsdk/htm
> l/CreateConnectableWP_SV01003714.asp
> Using Reporting Services SharePoint Web Parts in SQL Server 2000 Reporting
> Services Service Pack 2
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/maintain/webrssp2.mspx
> #EIAA
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Michael Cheng
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
> When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
> that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
> =====================================================> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>|||Hi Brain,
In the Report Explorer Web part, it pass the ReportUrl in the cell variable
in the cellReadyArgs passed in the CellReady EventHandler. And the Report
Viewer get it in the CellReady event. This event fire handled all by Web
Part architecture, and in you scenario, it seems the Report Explorer and
your own Web Part do not connected correctly, you may try to debug the SPS
session to see what these 2 Web Part really does.
Sincerely yours,
Michael Cheng
Microsoft Online Partner Support
When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
=====================================================This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.