Custom Charts...

Does reporting services currently allow me to write my own particular chart
that will appear inline int he report as the stock reports do?
reports and reports, but I would like to have some specific views that arent
in the chart selection.
Thanks in advance
Weston WeemsThere are several options:
* RS 2000:
You could draw your chart in a custom assembly and retrieve the value via
the Image.Value expression. Note: the custom assembly would be responsible
to retrieve all the data needed to draw the chart.
If you search the archives of this newsgroup you should find some related
postings from me and other people about how to do this.
* RS 2005:
In addition to what you can do on RS 2000, you could take advantage of the
new CustomReportItem feature and write your own custom processing control.
In this case, you could leverage the capabilities of the RS processing
engine to retrieve, group, sort, filter the data for you and the custom
processing control can read the already processed data through an object
model and then draw the chart image and return it as Image "rendering item".
More information and samples about this will be available when SQL Server
2005 is going to be released.
Robert M. Bruckner
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
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"Weston Weems" <wweems@.NOSPAMno-span-gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Does reporting services currently allow me to write my own particular
> chart that will appear inline int he report as the stock reports do?
> reports and reports, but I would like to have some specific views that
> arent in the chart selection.
> Thanks in advance
> Weston Weems
>