SSRS2

Converts a report (RDL or RDLC) or Markdown (a document, or slides) with SSRS2 (Report Viewer's rules) to pptx (PowerPoint's own text boxes, tables and pictures, a slide per page: a Markdown deck becomes a deck), pdf, docx, xlsx, mhtml, tiff, png (the first page), csv or xml. It is checked first, as validate_report checks it: with errors nothing is written. Returns validate_report's answer and written: the file's name and size, url (downloaded once, within ten minutes), curl (the command that saves it), and what it holds read back as PowerPoint (slides) or Word and a PDF reader (document) get it. help: ["answers"] says more.

Groups report definitions (RDL or RDLC) by structure, to plan one change across many: a group's reports have the same items, datasets, parameters and code modules and differ only in places, texts and looks, so one set of operations naming their items changes them alike. Returns groups, the largest first: structure (edit_report's structure), roles (what role:signature and the like name there), differs (how its first report differs from the first group's), places (items placed otherwise), and versions: each report and its version.

Renders a report definition (RDL or RDLC) or Markdown (a document, or slides: a page each) with SSRS2, the Report Viewer engine, and returns its pages as PNG, as a PDF of it would show them: a JSON summary first (what validate_report answers, no need to validate first; madeUpRows; conversion for Markdown, what it approximated at its lines; text, what the pages print, page by page in reading order, where values are read exactly), then an image per page, or one image of numbered thumbnails (sheet) to see a deck or a long report whole. A report with errors is not rendered. help: ["answers"] says more.

Outlines a report definition (RDL or RDLC) to plan a change: its page, datasets and fields, parameters, and every item top to bottom with its kind, place and size in cm, what it shows and does (hidden, toggled, page breaks), and its role (title, table, totals, declaration, signature...), which role:signature and the like name in edit_report and validate_report whatever the report calls the item. Returns version (edit_report's baseVersion) and outline; with item, that part's XML as written, with its lines (to copy an edit's find from).

Changes a report definition (RDL, RDLC) given as its XML by operations (the SSRS2 designer's own), all or none. The text is patched (the rest as it was), then checked: its new problems and pages said. The answer's rdlc is the changed report (past 200 KB, url and curl: a download within ten minutes). Operations ("op"): dataset, parameter, page, header, footer, code, textbox, table, matrix, list, chart, gauge, indicator, databar, sparkline, image, barcode, qrbill, subreport, line, rectangle, set, remove, space, move, swap, copy, field, column, remove_column, row, total, group, sort, widths, filter, restyle, palette. A new item goes "after"/"before" an item or a role (role:signature), in a container or at [x, y] cm. help: ["textbox","set"]: their words.

Checks a report definition (RDL or RDLC) or Markdown with SSRS2's engine (Report Viewer's rules): XML, schema, every expression compiled, then a run with rows through every page. Returns ok, a summary and diagnostics (code, severity, item, property, expression, line, message, hint); atRunTime counts what failed as it ran (#Error cells). Call it after each change until ok is true and atRunTime absent. Expressions are Visual Basic and may only compute (restrictedCode). Also layout, expect, variants, rowCounts and the report as it was (baselineRdlc): help: ["checks"].