Exporting rdl Reports to MS Word in local mode

Aspose.Words Product Family
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I am considering evaluating and possibly purchasing Aspose.Words for Reporting Services and have a question. When you drop down and choose to export the rdl report to a MS Word file from within Report Viewer (local mode) , does it just save the file and then you have to go open it in Word to edit it. Or does it automatically bring it up in Word as you export it so you can do your edits then?I don't want the users to have an extra step of having to find the exported file and open it in Word.

Thanks,
Susan

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Hi Susan,

Thank you for your interest in our product. By default, Report Viewer simply brings up a save file dialog and then the user saves the file, afterwards they should indeed locate the file and open it in Word manually. If you want to change this behaviour, you should implement your own dropdown control (if the export format makes sense) and a button. In the button's handler, you should export the current report and save it to disk programmaticaly, as described in the following article:

http://www.aspose.com/documentation/ssrs-rendering-extensions/aspose.words-for-reporting-services/rendering-reports-programmatically.html

and then use the System.Diagnostics.Process.Start method passing the name of the saved file to run Word. In this case, the users will be able to edit the exported document in Word right after they click your custom button.

Thanks.