How Are Thumbnails Generated For the Izenda ReportList?
This documentation is for the legacy Izenda 6 product. Documentation for the new Izenda 7 product can be found at https://www.izenda.com/docs/
When you open a report in the ReportViewer, a script on ReportViewer page sends an ajax request to the server.
The server receives the request, and then:
a) Loads requested reportSet;
b) Instantiates the HtmlReportRenderer control;
c) Passes the loaded reportSet to HtmlReportRenderer, and initiates rendering;
d) When the reportSet is rendered - it is represented by a big string of HTML data. This string contains whole rendered reportSet with all reports, etc;
e) The server the sends this string back to client;
f) The server also passes this string to the internal WebBrowser, which renders HTML, and then code performs a screenshot from the WebBrowser and creates a thumbnail.
The client receives the HTML and injects it into DIV - rendered reportSet appears in client browser.