how to set the default filename when exporting the report

Dear Anyone,

When exporting a report to another format, say excel; the file name is always set to the report name. Our client has a requirement where whenever a user exports a report to excel, the timestamp of when the data of the report was made should be appended in the filename. Is there a way to do this in Reporting Services as well as report builder?

Thanks,
JosephThere is no way to change the name of the export. You could set up a subscription to save the file off to a file. Not sure if that will sufficient or not for your scenario.

-Daniel|||

With Reporting Service 2005, you can create a data-driven subscription and set the FILENAME parameter.

Here is a sample query:

select'bogus - '+LEFT(DATENAME(month,getdate()),3)+' '+(CAST(DatePart(dd,GetDate())asnvarchar)+' '+CAST(DatePart(yyyy,GetDate())asnvarchar))asFILENAME

Hope this helps!

Thanks.

|||I am not sure, but I recall
Data-Driven Subscription is part of SQL Server/Report Server 2005Enterprise edition only|||

hi,

Can you help me on this issue,

My requirement is need to change the Report data file name appending with timestamp.

1. I created RDL
2. Opening the RDL data into my GWT application with new IE window
3. Exporting the data into excel/pdf.
4. Able to popup Download file Dialog.
5. Asking the File to save. ( Here by defualt it's giving the RDL File name only. I want to display with RDL file name with timestamp).

But what every you said , I created data-driven subscription, In Delivery Query Screen: Even i tried with A shared data source, able to validate the Command text. Finally not able to change the file name. Can you please tell what is the problem is.

best regards

bhushanam