Planning for Reporting Services and Power View Browser Support (SSRS 2012)

In Reporting Services, you use a web browser to view reports and run Report Manager. Not all browsers support all report functionality. This topic describes the browser requirements for Report Manager, Report Viewer, feature availability for the supported browsers, authentication requirements, and script requirements.

Applies to: Reporting Services Native Mode | Reporting Services SharePoint mode.

In this Topic:

• Power View Browser Scenarios

• Report Manager Browser Requirements

• Browser Requirements for Viewing Reports

• Authentication Requirements

• ReportViewer Web Server Controls in Visual Studio

Content Updated: February 2014

Power View Browser Scenarios

The list of supported browsers and browser versions that Power View supports, depends on what type of document is opened. Excel 2013 workbooks and “.rdlx” files utilize different components.

Power View on SharePoint Server and Reporting Services SharePoint Integrated Mode

The following table summarizes the supported browser versions for Power View when a user opens a Power View report (.RDLX) on a SharePoint farm that has a Reporting Services service application and the Reporting Services add-in for SharePoint installed and configured.

• The table applies to SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013.

• For more information on the SharePoint 2013 browser support, see Plan browser support in SharePoint 2013 (https://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc263526(office.15).aspx).

• For more information on the SharePoint 2010 browser support, see Plan browser support (SharePoint Server 2010) (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263526(office.14).aspx).

(1) Support added with SQL Server 2012 SP1.

InPrivate browsing feature in Internet Explorer

Power View does not support the InPrivate browsing feature in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9. For more information about InPrivate browsing, see What is InPrivate Browsing? (https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/What-is-InPrivate-Browsing).

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Power View on Excel Services or the Excel Web App on SharePoint Online

The following table summarizes the supported browser versions for Power View when a user opens an Excel 2013 workbook with Power View sheets on a SharePoint Server that is running Excel Services:

• For more information on the SharePoint 2013 browser support, see Plan browser support in SharePoint 2013 (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263526(office.15).aspx).

Report Manager Browser Requirements

To run Report Manager to manage reports and the report server, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher is required and scripting must be enabled.

Report Manager only supports Quirks mode and does not support standards mode. If you are using a browser in standards mode, you may experience issues with window size and scroll bars that are not always visible.

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Browser Requirements for Viewing Reports

The following is the current list of supported browsers and features with the report viewer. For example, viewing reports from report manager or a SharePoint library.

(1) Internet Explorer 11 requires Cumulative Update Package 8 (CU 8) of SQL Server 2012 SP1. If CU8 or an equivalent update is not installed, it is required to add the report server URL to compatibility view in internet options.

(2) The following features are supported:

• Export to PDF and TIFF format.

• Interactively view reports in Apple Safari on iOS devices. Features support includes expand/collapse, the parameter pane, and interactive sorting.

• For more information, see View Reporting Services Reports on Microsoft Surface Devices and Apple iOS Devices.

Note   If you are accessing a report server from a Macintosh computer, we recommend that you use Safari. If you are using a SharePoint product that is integrated with Reporting Services, see Plan browser support (Windows SharePoint Services).

URL Access for Viewing Reports

To view reports directly, rather than viewing them through Report Manager, you can use URL Access to link to the report and the report viewer. URL access supports a variety of browsers.

For more information on URL access, see the following topic:

• URL Access Parameter Reference

Authentication Requirements

Browsers support specific authentication schemes that must be handled by the report server in order for the client request to succeed. The following table identifies the default authentication types supported by each browser running on a Windows operating system.

Script Requirements

To use the report viewer, configure your browser to run scripts.

If scripting is not enabled, you receive the following message when you open a report:

• Your browser does not support scripts or has been configured to not allow scripts to run. Click here to view this report without scripts.

If you choose to view the report without script support, the report is rendered in HTML without report viewer capabilities such as the report toolbar and the document map.

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Browser Support for ReportViewer Web Server Controls in Visual Studio

The ReportViewer Web server control is used to embed report functionality in an ASP.NET web application. The controls are included with Visual Studio and support different browsers and browser versions than the other components described in this topic. The type of browser used to view the application determines the kind of ReportViewer functionality that you can provide in your application. Use the table provided in this topic to determine which of the supported browsers are subject to report functionality restrictions and the supported platforms.

Due to differences in the rendering engines of the supported browsers, some advance report features may be displayed differently in different browsers (i.e. text rotation).

Scripting Requirements

Use a browser that has script support enabled. If the browser cannot run scripts, you cannot view the report.

Browser and Platform Requirements for Viewing Reports with the ReportViewer web server controls

Support for interactive report features varies by browser type. The following support matrix shows which browser types are supported on which platforms, subject to constraints noted in the Notes column.

(1) Internet Explorer 11 requires Cumulative Update Package 8 (CU 8) of SQL Server 2012 SP1. If CU8 or an equivalent update is not installed, it is required to add the report server URL to compatibility view in internet options.

(2) If you are using a browser in standards mode, you may experience issues with window size, scroll bars that are not always visible, and various other features that do not work. Also, in standards mode, Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0 do not display slanted lines in reports. If you use slanted lines in your reports, set your ASP.NET page to run in quirks mode in Internet Explorer. To do this, find the <!DOCTYPE> tag in your ASP.NET page. Or, if you use a master page, you can find the tag in the .master file. This tag looks like the following:

• <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
  

  Replace the <!DOCTYPE> tag with the following tag:

  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
  

For more information on compatibility modes in Internet Explorer, see Defining Document Compatibility (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=180380).

For more information on using the ReportViewer controls, see Deploying Reports and ReportViewer Controls (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251723.aspx).

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See Also

Reference

URL Access Parameter Reference

Concepts

Tools (SSRS)

Report Manager (SSRS)

HTML Viewer and the Report Toolbar