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Groups report definitions (RDL or RDLC) by structure, to plan one change across many: a group's reports have the same items, datasets, parameters and code modules and differ only in places, texts and looks, so one set of operations naming their items changes them alike. Returns groups, the largest first: structure (edit_report's structure), roles (what role:signature and the like name there), differs (how its first report differs from the first group's), places (items placed otherwise), and versions: each report and its version.
The reports by name: {"Receipt_de-CH.rdlc": "<the report's XML>", ...}; 50 at most, 20 MB in all.
"full": each group's reports listed too, beside their versions.
Groups report definitions (RDL or RDLC) by structure, to plan one change across many: a group's reports have the same items, datasets, parameters and code modules and differ only in places, texts and looks, so one set of operations naming their items changes them alike. Returns groups, the largest first: structure (edit_report's structure), roles (what role:signature and the like name there), differs (how its first report differs from the first group's), places (items placed otherwise), and versions: each report and its version.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| detail | string | null | "full": each group's reports listed too, beside their versions. |
| reports* | object | The reports by name: {"Receipt_de-CH.rdlc": "<the report's XML>", ...}; 50 at most, 20 MB in all. |
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"reports"
],
"properties": {
"detail": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "\"full\": each group's reports listed too, beside their versions."
},
"reports": {
"type": "object",
"description": "The reports by name: {\"Receipt_de-CH.rdlc\": \"<the report's XML>\", ...}; 50 at most, 20 MB in all.",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}Converts a report (RDL or RDLC) or Markdown (a document, or slides) with SSRS2 (Report Viewer's rules) to pptx (PowerPoint's own text boxes, tables and pictures, a slide per page: a Markdown deck becomes a deck), pdf, docx, xlsx, mhtml, tiff, png (the first page), csv or xml. It is checked first, as validate_report checks it: with errors nothing is written. Returns validate_report's answer and written: the file's name and size, url (downloaded once, within ten minutes), curl (the command that saves it), and what it holds read back as PowerPoint (slides) or Word and a PDF reader (document) get it. help: ["answers"] says more.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| help | any | true, or topics (["markdown", "decks"]): the reference only. |
| name | string | null | The file's name, without its extension (default: the Markdown's title, else report). |
| rdlc | string | null | The report definition's XML (RDL or RDLC). Give rdlc or markdown. |
| format | string | null | pptx (default), pdf, docx, xlsx, mhtml, tiff, png, csv or xml. |
| culture | string | null | The culture of a report that names no Language (en-US, de-CH); left out, en-US. |
| markdown | string | null | Markdown's text: a document, or slides with marp: true. Give rdlc or markdown. |
Outlines a report definition (RDL or RDLC) to plan a change: its page, datasets and fields, parameters, and every item top to bottom with its kind, place and size in cm, what it shows and does (hidden, toggled, page breaks), and its role (title, table, totals, declaration, signature...), which role:signature and the like name in edit_report and validate_report whatever the report calls the item. Returns version (edit_report's baseVersion) and outline; with item, that part's XML as written, with its lines (to copy an edit's find from).
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| item | string | null | One part in full: a name, a role (role:signature) or a path (WorkInstructions/TablixRow[3]): its outline and XML. |
| part | integer | Outline part, from 1. |
| rdlc* | string | The report definition's XML (RDL or RDLC). |
| detail | string | null | "full": every text whole and why each role was guessed. |
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"rdlc"
],
"properties": {
"item": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "One part in full: a name, a role (role:signature) or a path (WorkInstructions/TablixRow[3]): its outline and XML."
},
"part": {
"type": "integer",
"default": 1,
"description": "Outline part, from 1."
},
"rdlc": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The report definition's XML (RDL or RDLC)."
},
"detail": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "\"full\": every text whole and why each role was guessed."
}
}
}Changes a report definition (RDL, RDLC) given as its XML by operations (the SSRS2 designer's own), all or none. The text is patched (the rest as it was), then checked: its new problems and pages said. The answer's rdlc is the changed report (past 200 KB, url and curl: a download within ten minutes). Operations ("op"): dataset, parameter, page, header, footer, code, textbox, table, matrix, list, chart, gauge, indicator, databar, sparkline, image, barcode, qrbill, subreport, line, rectangle, set, remove, space, move, swap, copy, field, column, remove_column, row, total, group, sort, widths, filter, restyle, palette. A new item goes "after"/"before" an item or a role (role:signature), in a container or at [x, y] cm. help: ["textbox","set"]: their words.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| fit | boolean | With keepPages: a block that costs rows is written in the form checked to keep them. |
| help | any | Operations' names, or true. |
| rdlc | string | null | The report's XML. |
| check | boolean | Check after (default true). |
| edits | any | Or exact replacements: [{find, replace, in?, all?}]. |
| detail | string | null | "full": every item, the diff whole. |
| dryRun | boolean |
Renders a report definition (RDL or RDLC) or Markdown (a document, or slides: a page each) with SSRS2, the Report Viewer engine, and returns its pages as PNG, as a PDF of it would show them: a JSON summary first (what validate_report answers, no need to validate first; madeUpRows; conversion for Markdown, what it approximated at its lines; text, what the pages print, page by page in reading order, where values are read exactly), then an image per page, or one image of numbered thumbnails (sheet) to see a deck or a long report whole. A report with errors is not rendered. help: ["answers"] says more.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| dpi | integer | The images' dots per inch, 48 to 200 (default 96: an A4 page is 794 x 1123 pixels). |
| help | any | true, or topics (["markdown", "decks"]): the reference only. |
| rdlc | string | null | The report definition's XML (RDL or RDLC). Give rdlc or markdown. |
| pages | integer | null | Pages to return: 3 by default, 10 at most; with sheet, 30. |
| sheet | boolean | One image of up to 30 pages as numbered thumbnails, too small to read: look at a page itself for that. |
| culture | string | null | The culture of a report that names no Language (en-US, de-CH); left out, en-US. |
| markdown |
Checks a report definition (RDL or RDLC) or Markdown with SSRS2's engine (Report Viewer's rules): XML, schema, every expression compiled, then a run with rows through every page. Returns ok, a summary and diagnostics (code, severity, item, property, expression, line, message, hint); atRunTime counts what failed as it ran (#Error cells). Call it after each change until ok is true and atRunTime absent. Expressions are Visual Basic and may only compute (restrictedCode). Also layout, expect, variants, rowCounts and the report as it was (baselineRdlc): help: ["checks"].
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| help | any | true, or topics (["markdown", "decks"]): the reference only. |
| rdlc | string | null | The report definition's XML (RDL or RDLC). Give rdlc or markdown. |
| expect | any | Rules: {"order": ["role:table", "Block?", "role:signature"]}, samePage, page, pages, maxPages, noOverlap. An item named and not printed fails its rule, unless written Name? (a variant may hide it). |
| layout | any | true, or names and roles (role:signature): where each item printed, its page and place in cm. |
| render | boolean | false: the definition only, no expression runs. |
| culture | string | null | The culture of a report that names no Language (en-US, de-CH); left out, en-US. |
| pictures |
| object | null |
| The pictures the Markdown names, by its paths: {"images/chart.png": "<base64>"}; 5 MB each, 20 MB in all. |
| parameters | object | null | Report parameter values by name (a multi-value one's separated by commas). |
| sampleData | any | Rows per dataset: {"DataSet": [{"Field": value}]}, dates as ISO text. Left out, made up from the fields' types. |
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"help": {
"description": "true, or topics ([\"markdown\", \"decks\"]): the reference only."
},
"name": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "The file's name, without its extension (default: the Markdown's title, else report)."
},
"rdlc": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "The report definition's XML (RDL or RDLC). Give rdlc or markdown."
},
"format": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "pptx (default), pdf, docx, xlsx, mhtml, tiff, png, csv or xml."
},
"culture": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "The culture of a report that names no Language (en-US, de-CH); left out, en-US."
},
"markdown": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Markdown's text: a document, or slides with marp: true. Give rdlc or markdown."
},
"pictures": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "The pictures the Markdown names, by its paths: {\"images/chart.png\": \"<base64>\"}; 5 MB each, 20 MB in all.",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"parameters": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "Report parameter values by name (a multi-value one's separated by commas).",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"sampleData": {
"description": "Rows per dataset: {\"DataSet\": [{\"Field\": value}]}, dates as ISO text. Left out, made up from the fields' types."
}
}
}| The diff, not the report. |
| rewrite | boolean | Write anew a report that cannot be patched. |
| summary | string | null | Said back. |
| maxPages | integer | null | Refuse a report printing more pages. |
| pictures | object | null | Pictures an image names by its file: {"path": "<base64>"}. |
| variants | any | As validate_report's; their pages said. |
| keepPages | boolean | Refuse a change that would print more pages, or at fewer table rows (variants, rowCounts too). |
| rowCounts | any | As validate_report's: {DataSet: "1..30"}. |
| operations | array | null | The operations, in order. |
| parameters | object | null | Parameter values. |
| sampleData | any | Rows: {DataSet: [{Field: value}]}. |
| baseVersion | string | null | describe_report's version. |
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"fit": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "With keepPages: a block that costs rows is written in the form checked to keep them."
},
"help": {
"description": "Operations' names, or true."
},
"rdlc": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "The report's XML."
},
"check": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": true,
"description": "Check after (default true)."
},
"edits": {
"description": "Or exact replacements: [{find, replace, in?, all?}]."
},
"detail": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "\"full\": every item, the diff whole."
},
"dryRun": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "The diff, not the report."
},
"rewrite": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "Write anew a report that cannot be patched."
},
"summary": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Said back."
},
"maxPages": {
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
],
"description": "Refuse a report printing more pages."
},
"pictures": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "Pictures an image names by its file: {\"path\": \"<base64>\"}.",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"variants": {
"description": "As validate_report's; their pages said."
},
"keepPages": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "Refuse a change that would print more pages, or at fewer table rows (variants, rowCounts too)."
},
"rowCounts": {
"description": "As validate_report's: {DataSet: \"1..30\"}."
},
"operations": {
"type": [
"array",
"null"
],
"items": {},
"description": "The operations, in order."
},
"parameters": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "Parameter values.",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"sampleData": {
"description": "Rows: {DataSet: [{Field: value}]}."
},
"baseVersion": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "describe_report's version."
}
}
}| string | null |
| Markdown's text: a document, or slides with marp: true. Give rdlc or markdown. |
| pictures | object | null | The pictures the Markdown names, by its paths: {"images/chart.png": "<base64>"}; 5 MB each, 20 MB in all. |
| firstPage | integer | The first page to return (default 1). |
| madeUpRows | any | "all": every made-up row in the answer, not a summary. |
| parameters | object | null | Report parameter values by name (a multi-value one's separated by commas). |
| sampleData | any | Rows per dataset: {"DataSet": [{"Field": value}]}, dates as ISO text. Left out, made up from the fields' types. |
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"dpi": {
"type": "integer",
"default": 96,
"description": "The images' dots per inch, 48 to 200 (default 96: an A4 page is 794 x 1123 pixels)."
},
"help": {
"description": "true, or topics ([\"markdown\", \"decks\"]): the reference only."
},
"rdlc": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "The report definition's XML (RDL or RDLC). Give rdlc or markdown."
},
"pages": {
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
],
"description": "Pages to return: 3 by default, 10 at most; with sheet, 30."
},
"sheet": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": false,
"description": "One image of up to 30 pages as numbered thumbnails, too small to read: look at a page itself for that."
},
"culture": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "The culture of a report that names no Language (en-US, de-CH); left out, en-US."
},
"markdown": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Markdown's text: a document, or slides with marp: true. Give rdlc or markdown."
},
"pictures": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "The pictures the Markdown names, by its paths: {\"images/chart.png\": \"<base64>\"}; 5 MB each, 20 MB in all.",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"firstPage": {
"type": "integer",
"default": 1,
"description": "The first page to return (default 1)."
},
"madeUpRows": {
"description": "\"all\": every made-up row in the answer, not a summary."
},
"parameters": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "Report parameter values by name (a multi-value one's separated by commas).",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"sampleData": {
"description": "Rows per dataset: {\"DataSet\": [{\"Field\": value}]}, dates as ISO text. Left out, made up from the fields' types."
}
}
}| markdown |
| string | null |
| Markdown's text: a document, or slides with marp: true. Give rdlc or markdown. |
| pictures | object | null | The pictures the Markdown names, by its paths: {"images/chart.png": "<base64>"}; 5 MB each, 20 MB in all. |
| variants | any | Renders again with rows changed: [{"name": "no deposit", "sampleData": {"Deposit": null}}]. |
| rowCounts | any | {"Requests": "1..30"}: the pages of each count and the first that adds a page. |
| madeUpRows | any | "all": every made-up row in the answer, not a summary. |
| parameters | object | null | Report parameter values by name (a multi-value one's separated by commas). |
| sampleData | any | Rows per dataset: {"DataSet": [{"Field": value}]}, dates as ISO text. Left out, made up from the fields' types. |
| baselineRdlc | string | null | The report as it was (its XML): only new warnings are said, with pages before. |
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"help": {
"description": "true, or topics ([\"markdown\", \"decks\"]): the reference only."
},
"rdlc": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "The report definition's XML (RDL or RDLC). Give rdlc or markdown."
},
"expect": {
"description": "Rules: {\"order\": [\"role:table\", \"Block?\", \"role:signature\"]}, samePage, page, pages, maxPages, noOverlap. An item named and not printed fails its rule, unless written Name? (a variant may hide it)."
},
"layout": {
"description": "true, or names and roles (role:signature): where each item printed, its page and place in cm."
},
"render": {
"type": "boolean",
"default": true,
"description": "false: the definition only, no expression runs."
},
"culture": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "The culture of a report that names no Language (en-US, de-CH); left out, en-US."
},
"markdown": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "Markdown's text: a document, or slides with marp: true. Give rdlc or markdown."
},
"pictures": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "The pictures the Markdown names, by its paths: {\"images/chart.png\": \"<base64>\"}; 5 MB each, 20 MB in all.",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"variants": {
"description": "Renders again with rows changed: [{\"name\": \"no deposit\", \"sampleData\": {\"Deposit\": null}}]."
},
"rowCounts": {
"description": "{\"Requests\": \"1..30\"}: the pages of each count and the first that adds a page."
},
"madeUpRows": {
"description": "\"all\": every made-up row in the answer, not a summary."
},
"parameters": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"description": "Report parameter values by name (a multi-value one's separated by commas).",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"sampleData": {
"description": "Rows per dataset: {\"DataSet\": [{\"Field\": value}]}, dates as ISO text. Left out, made up from the fields' types."
},
"baselineRdlc": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "The report as it was (its XML): only new warnings are said, with pages before."
}
}
}