How to save report in text (.txt) format using SSRS

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Hello 
I am using some .rdl file to generate reports and this is using SSRS. But only thing I did that I have changed the configuration file in C drive as below :
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<Extension Name="TXT" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.CsvRenderer.CsvReport,Microsoft.ReportingServices.CsvRendering"> 
    <OverrideNames> 
        <Name Language="en-US">TXT (Pipe Delimited Text File)</Name> 
    </OverrideNames> 
    <Configuration> 
        <DeviceInfo> 
            <FieldDelimiter>|</FieldDelimiter> 
            <Extension>TXT</Extension> 
            <Encoding>ASCII</Encoding> 
        <NoHeader>true</NoHeader> 
        </DeviceInfo> 
    </Configuration> 
</Extension> 
The TXT is added to the drop down . But when I am saving the report it is not saving in .txt format. It is taking .CSV format. Kindly help to save report in txt format.

Answer 1

Hi Chat89,
By design, SQL Server Reporting Services render a report to CSV (text) format with a comma (,) as FieldDelimiter in .CSV FileExtension. So if we want to display Pipe FieldDelimiter in .txt format, we can modify those setting in the RSReportserver.config
file as below:
Please navigate to RSReportserver.config file: <drive:>\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportServer \RSReportserver.config.
Backup the RSReportserver.config file before we modify it, open the RSReportserver.config file with Notepad format.
In the <Render> section, add the new code for the CSV extension like this:
<Extension Name="CSV" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.DataRenderer.CsvReport,Microsoft.ReportingServices.DataRendering">
   <OverrideNames>
        <Name Language="en-US">TXT (Pipe Delimited Text File)</Name>
    </OverrideNames>
    <Configuration>
        <DeviceInfo>
            <FieldDelimiter>|</FieldDelimiter>
            <FileExtension>TXT</FileExtension>
        <NoHeader>true</NoHeader>
        </DeviceInfo>
    </Configuration>
</Extension>
Save the RSReportserver.config file.
For more information about CSV Device Information Settings, please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms155365.aspx
If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Katherine xiong
Katherine Xiong
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