Report viewer PDF export chart colors
Has anyone ever had a problem with chart colors when exporting to PDF/Excel from reportviewer? The colors look fine in the viewer, but in the export they are wrong. I'm really just getting started with this, and taking it over from someone else, but this doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Is there a way to change the chart colors only on export using code or something?Jason R. Hall MCSE, MCSD, MCPD.NET 2.0
April 25th, 2011 9:02am

which version of Excel are we talking about here? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/295757/ssrs-and-excel-color-compatibility
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April 25th, 2011 9:59am

Hi, thanks for the link. It is reportviewer 2008, and excel 2010 although it is exporting to xls format vs. xlsx. I've actually been able to reproduce this in Word now too. There is a function being used to set custom background colors for items when there are multiples, but I am just not getting why that would be different in the viewer vs. the export. Is there just something I am not getting about the event model?Jason R. Hall MCSE, MCSD, MCPD.NET 2.0
April 25th, 2011 10:17am

Hi jasonryonhall, According to your description, the issue is occurring when you export the report to PDF/Excel from ReportViewer. I suspect that this is a limition in ReportViewer, the ReportViewer control cannot be extended by adding custom renderers. Please understand that, as here we generally focus on the troubleshooting of reporting services issues and the problem we are encountering has beyond our specialty. I suggest you to post the thread to our Visual Studio Report Controls forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsreportcontrols/threads. Hope you can get the issue resolved soon with helps from appropriate team. If you have any question, please feel free to ask. Thanks, Eileen
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April 27th, 2011 6:24am

Hi jasonryonhall, According to your description, the issue is occurring when you export the report to PDF/Excel from ReportViewer. I suspect that this is a limition in ReportViewer, the ReportViewer control cannot be extended by adding custom renderers. Please understand that, as here we generally focus on the troubleshooting of reporting services issues and the problem we are encountering has beyond our specialty. I suggest you to post the thread to our Visual Studio Report Controls forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsreportcontrols/threads. Hope you can get the issue resolved soon with helps from appropriate team. If you have any question, please feel free to ask. Thanks, Eileen
April 27th, 2011 6:25am

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