Monday, March 26, 2012

Report Viewer on Internet Site

Hi, I am developing a website that will use the VS Report Viewer control to display some business reports.....The website will be on the internet, but the report viewer will need to access an internal report server that the internet users don't have access to? Is this possible, or the correct way to do this? Any ideas / suggestions would be appreciated!

Cheers
Chris

If you use anonymous access then the user who is accessing the report from the internet does not have to authenticate any type of username to the server.

However, you probably don't want just ANYONE to see your reports, so you may want to develop a secure front-end with Visual Studio to authenticate the user in that fashion. Sort of like a portal on a website. If you go this route, be sure to use a stored procedure and possibly encryption for your password I/O.

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