TECH TIP: Testing the ReportBuilder Services Auto-restart Feature If the report server application encounters an unhandled exception then it does the following: Writes the error to the log. Notifies RB Services that it has encountered a fatal exception. Halts execution. RB Services then starts a new report server application process. If you want to test  Full Article…

Question “How can write custom information to the server log?” Solution Use the Server.LogWriter object to write to the server log. The LogWriter has a WriteEvent method; see the example code for details on using this method. Download: CustomSeverLogging.zip Sample Delphi code: uses rsServer, rsServerLog; {TfrmServerMain.FormCreate – example of writing to server log from the  Full Article…

Question “I am registering form based reports with my report server. How can I use ReportModuleVolume event-handlers to control processing on the server?” Solution This example defines a TmyReportModuleVolumeController class that manages the ReportModuleVolume. The ReportModuleVolume is created implicitly by the report catalog when report forms are registered.The ReportModuleVolumeController reads the report volume instance from  Full Article…