SSIS - Mapping of paramater values to a configuration does not work - ssis

I'm using the latest version of Visual Studio Community 2019 (16.11.8)
together with SSIS extension 3.15 and at some point in time (can't say exaxt date/time)
the possibility to map project parameters to a configuration stopped working.
I can add new parameter mappings using the dialog but when clicking ok and reopening the dialog, the parameter is gone. Parameter mappings added earlier stay unchanged.
Here an example:
Open dialog
Then add a parameter
Parameter has been added:
Close and open dialog again:
One of my colleagues tested this with same software versions, problem is the same there.
Maybe anybody already knows this or can give me a hint if I do something wrong or if there is a workaround.
Thanks in advance for any help.

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SSIS - Remove configuration on project deployment model

I have converted my project to Project deployment model. When I was converting there was a checkbox which said “Remove configurations from all packages after conversion" and I did not check it when I shouldn't have. Now all the configurations are part of my local project. Is there a way I could remove all the configurations after the conversion is complete?
Thanks
You can try this and let me know if it works:
Double click on package to open and see its properties in right
side.
Click three dots in configuration as shown in image.
Now
enable the package configuration. It should show your config which
you can simply delete.
I know this is old, but I came across the same issue and hoping this will help someone. I am using Visual Studio 2017 v15.9.11 and SSDT v15.9.0 on Windows 10 Enterprise. This was done for a package destined for SQL 2016, but I believe it would work on any package for SQL 2012+.
You can remove/disable package configurations after conversion by doing the following:
Find your dtsx file in Solution Explorer
Press F7 (or right-click the package > View Code)
Search for the <DTS:Configurations> element and remove the entire section
Save the file and re-open in designer view. Right-click the package and "Package Configurations..." should no longer be in the context menu.
Example from one of my packages - this is what was deleted:
<DTS:Configurations>
<DTS:Configuration
DTS:ConfigurationString=""CONFIG";"[dbo].[SSIS_CONFIG]";"YourConfigName1";"
DTS:ConfigurationType="7"
DTS:CreationName=""
DTS:DTSID="{C2C3EDFC-392A-401F-AC75-4D4C82A9CD68}"
DTS:ObjectName="Configuration 1" />
<DTS:Configuration
DTS:ConfigurationString=""CONFIG";"[dbo].[SSIS_CONFIG]";"YourConfigName2";"
DTS:ConfigurationType="7"
DTS:CreationName=""
DTS:DTSID="{A7F0C4DD-4891-44E1-817A-AB8431DA6509}"
DTS:ObjectName="Configuration 2" />
</DTS:Configurations>

AX2012 - How to unlink business logic from report?

I'm creating a new SSRS report in AX2012. At first, I added some Data Methods through Visual Studio, but later I found another way to get what I wanted without using those data methods. Consequently, I deleted the Data Methods and the Business Logic project.
Now, everytime I build the report, I get a warning :
Could not resolve 'projectname' from the AOT. If the reference is required in your code, you may get compilation errors.
How do I delete the reference to the business logic project? My report runs without problems, but I would like to stop getting this warning...
Thanks!
It should just be a project dependency.
See here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/et61xzb3.aspx
To remove:
In Solution Explorer, select a project. On the Project menu, choose
Project Dependencies. The Project Dependencies dialog box opens. On
the Dependencies tab, select a project from the Project drop-down
menu. In the Depends on field, clear the check boxes beside any other
projects that are no longer dependencies of this project.
EDIT: Another option is to export the XPO and edit it in there, and reimport.

Renamed SSIS Package and Now Don't Have Access to my Solutions

I made a goof and renamed my SSIS package without fully understanding what I was doing. Now I get "one or more solutions couldn't be added..." I then go to my solution explorer and no solutions are there. Please note that I've been working on this project for 6 months. I checked the project obj folder and all my solutions are there. I'm pretty sure I have to rename something else. Will somebody please help me. I am an intern and am FREAKING OUT.
Let's examine what's happening. I am using SSIS 2012 in this example but the steps will be the same for 2005 to 2014. This assumes you have turned off "hide file extensions".
Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment, IDE, for developing software. The outermost concept is a Solution. See 1 below. Solutions solve a problem as a whole. A solution might need multiple tools to solve a problem. A tool in this case, is a Project (#2). Depending on the type of project, different folders and such will appear in section 3. This is an example of an SSIS project.
If you don't see your solution, there's a question for that Solution Folder Not Showing in Visual Studio 2010 - How Can I Make It Visible?
If I Rename the project JeffOrris to JeffOrris2 and close Visual Studio, it will prompt me to save changes to JeffOrris.sln (and optionally, the project). If I click No, when I reopen the solution, I am greeted with the following error message along with Visual Studio indicating that my project JeffOrris is unavailable. :'(
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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One or more projects in the solution were not loaded correctly.
Please see the Output Window for details.
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OK
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To start fixing things, you have to get Visual Studio to play ball. You can do this one of two routes. The first is to Add the renamed project back into the solution. Add... Existing Project... and then find your .dtproj file (or .whatever it was with 2005/2008) Assuming that loads fine, you can right click on the one that isn't loading and select Remove. Then click "Save All" or Ctrl-Shift-S
Option 2, which is what I do is to go mucking about with files. Find where your .SLN is. If your project is still open, it will indicate it under properties but once it's bolloxed then you'd need to right click and choose Open Folder in File Explorer.
However you get here, look at what you have.
A solution is represented on disk by a .sln file. That's a text file, might be UTF-8 but it's human readable text. The .suo file is binary that keeps track of what you have open and such. It doesn't matter, the .sln does.
Take a peek inside your solution file. Knowledge is only good for you
Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00
# Visual Studio 2012
Project("{159641D6-6404-4A2A-AE62-294DE0FE8301}") = "JeffOrris", "JeffOrris\JeffOrris.dtproj", "{631559E9-5ED5-4F63-B74E-BFB6CBAE89C5}"
EndProject
Global
GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution
Development|Default = Development|Default
EndGlobalSection
GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution
{631559E9-5ED5-4F63-B74E-BFB6CBAE89C5}.Development|Default.ActiveCfg = Development
{631559E9-5ED5-4F63-B74E-BFB6CBAE89C5}.Development|Default.Build.0 = Development
EndGlobalSection
GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution
HideSolutionNode = FALSE
EndGlobalSection
EndGlobal
Of importance is the line starting with Project. That says I, the Solution, have a Project called JeffOrris and the project file can be found, relative to my location, at Folder called JeffOrris and inside there a file named JeffOrris.dtproj
The "trick" then is to make your subject and verbs agree. Or in this case, make your Solution and your .dtproj file agree. That'd be #6 below. After saving the solution file, Visual Studio should prompt you to reload it and whoosh, your project is back.
If you have inadvertently renamed the .dtproj file, then you can rename it back. Again, save all

SSRS Dataset Field Refresh not updating for Tablix

I have updated the SP for the attached dataset that the tablix is using. The refresh worked fine and I can see my new fields in the shared data set when I look in the Fields tab. My problem is the tablix itself is not giving me access to the new fields. There is a disconnect somewhere and I cannot figure out hot to get the tablix to see the updated fields available in the dataset. I run into this problem frequently and hope I can get a good answer here to return to in the future as I am sure I will need to. I have googled and looked through the suggested questions here and I cannot find one that is directly related to this issue.
I will also know note that the report project is in TFS source control as I read that has some adverse side affects. I have marked the whole project for edit and also went to the folder structure and made sure everything was unset to read only.
I am using SSRS 2008 in VS 2010.
Just found it... I don't understand the need for hidden menus like this..
Click the report itself, then go up to View on the menu and at the very bottom there is "Report Data". From here you can select your dataset and go to its properties and refresh the reports attached dataset's fields. What a pain in the butt.
Here is a link that helps better explain it.
http://blog.dontpaniclabs.com/post/2012/01/26/Developings-Reports-for-SQL-Server-Reporting-Services
You can also delete the .data file if you still can't get it to refresh.
Go into the file folder where the .rdl file exists
Next to it, there should be a file with the same name with the
.rdl.data extensions. Delete this file.
It appears to force the refresh probably because it has to recreate the file.
Here's a less invasive way but may not always work:
In the Report Data windown, right click on you dataset and click
Dataset Properties like so:
Click Refresh Fields near the bottom right of the Dataset Properties
window:
After changing the Stored Procedure code, without changing the name and number of fields returned, I could only get the report to seemingly call the new format of the stored procedure by clicking the Refresh button in the report's Preview tab.
Go into your solution folder, where the rdl's are stored and delete .rdl.data file for your report.
Next time you'll run the report, new rdl.data file will be created and it will have all the new fields from the updated SP.
ok, this maybe an older thread, but I kept running into the same problem on occasion. The absolutely easiest way to fix this is adding the following line of code to the beginning of the stored procedure that produces your dataset for the report:
SET FMTONLY OFF;
Happy coding :)
I ran into a very similar issue:
Added a new field to an existing SQL table function
(With some difficulty) added the new field to the existing dataset in SSRS
Spent some time unsuccessfully trying to add the new fields to the table (tablix?) in design mode.
This didn't work for me so eventually I opened the particular report file [filename].rdl in a text editor and surprise surprise it was XML. It was easy enough to add the missing field manually, and visual studio then prompted me to refresh the report.
<DataSets>
<DataSet Name="DataSet1">
...
<Fields>
<!-- add new field at this level -->
<Field Name="[newfield]">
<DataField>Email</DataField>
<rd:TypeName>System.String</rd:TypeName>
</Field>
</Fields>
</DataSet>
</DataSets>
I am having exact same issue in VS 2012. The stored procedure used as a query will not allow to refresh fields. When the button is pressed nothing happens.
The only solution I found is to flip the Query Type to Text and provide the parameter values on the exec call to the SP.
Why do we have to put up with these obvious show stopper bugs?
Had the same issue and I was able to resolve it by renaming my dataset in properties, creating a new dataset with the original name, and then hitting the refresh button.
Old thread, but I ran into this using VS 2015 and SSMS 2016. I was certain it was an issue with VS. When I went back to SSMS and tried executing my stored procedure, however, I found that passing certain parameter values would cause the query to fail. Interestingly, I was able to ALTER the stored procedure without encountering any errors. (Perhaps because some combinations of parameters wouldn't result in a failure?)
Anyways, at the end of the day it was faulty coding in my sproc that was causing the fields in SSRS not to refresh. When I went back and corrected the issues with my code, everything worked as expected in VS.
I am working in Visual Studio 2015 and none of the above answers worked for me. If you are getting the data from a stored procedure, you need to open the .xsd file and right click on the data model. Select Configure, and the correct values from the procedure should appear on the right of the window.
Then refresh your dataset from the Report Data tab.
I had the same issue.
I installed SP1 so that .rdl.data file would get generated which inturn also fixed the data refresh issue.
Reference: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/e2b199df-bc1b-4211-9110-85a0c63454b8/why-does-ssrs-not-create-a-rdldata-file-when-previewing-a-report?forum=sqlreportingservices
I was trying to use an ODBC driver for the datasource that connected ok, but wouldn't show Fields in VS 2015 SSRS report. I went back and used a datasource based on SQL Server driver (it's in the choices when designing a datasource) and it worked perfectly.
I had this same issue but the cause was different from the other answers at the time of this writing.
In my case, the stored procedure used as the data source was returning multiple data sets (due to some debugging code that I had left in there).
SSRS was "seeing" the fields in the first dataset, whereas I was expecting it to see the fields in the second dataset.
Removing the extraneous datasets fixed the issue and SSRS was able to see the fields that I intended.
Clearing reportviewer's datasources works for me.
this.(reportviewername).LocalReport.DataSources.Clear();
Open the Visual Studio 2008 reports solution
Open (double click) your report (.rpt file) on left pane
Press Ctrl + Alt + D to open the Report Data panel
Expand the DataSets folder
Find the report's main data set and right click the "DataSet Properties" menu
Click the "Refresh Fields" button on the popup window.
Deleting .data no work for me. Deleting Dataset and adding again worked. And I had previously configured VS/SSRS to NOT cache.
refresh and deleting .data did not work for me. So I just manually added the fields.

SSRS different results in Data tab and Preview tab

I get the correct results (nov and dec data) when I run a query in the Data tab of a report that I built in SQL Server Reporting Services. When I preview the report I get old data from October. It doesn't make any sense to me. I'm not sure whats going on. Note: the data is in Oracle.
Here's the date filter I'm using
receipt_date + 2 <= SYSDATE
The query works fine in SQL Developer and in the Data tab in the .rdl designer in Visual Studio... just not in the Preview tab when I run the report... that's when I get Oct. data.
Anyone know what's going on here?
SSRS caches data locally for use by the designer. The cached data is only updated if the developer previews the report in VS.NET using a different set of parameters, which in your case never happens because the report has no parameters.
To allow SSRS to refresh the cached data, navigate to the directory which contains your design-time RDL file and delete any files which have the extension ".data".
This is way too late, but maybe this can help someone else in the future.
When developing SQL Reporting Services reports, a really annoying function is that preview data is cached locally when testing reports instead of fetched on every run. Even explicitly refreshing the data doesn't always fix this. The most reliable way to resolve this is to delete the .data file associated with your report RDL file. These data files are stored in the same folder with your report definitions.
While you can delete these files manually, the following 15 second configuration change to BIS makes the process of deleting all data caches as simple as a menu selection.
Let's see how to achieve this.
In Visual Studio -->
Go to Tools - External Tools...
Add a new tool with the following settings:
Now whenever you want to delete your report data cache, just go to Tools - Clear Report Data Cache.
The only thing that works for me (in 2008 R2) is deleting the .data file and rebuilding the report. The refresh button on the preview tab does nothing nor does editing the RSReportDesigner.config file (located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies). Very frustrating. If I change the query or sp logic I now have to manually delete the .data file in the report project directory in order to see the the most recent rendering of the data.
Hope this was fixed in SSRS 2012 data tools.
see the links
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/522670/ssrs-turn-off-local-data-cache-in-bids#
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/145ac9ac-b247-47d2-a787-98a8fcfad053
The link in Greg's post points to this workaround, added after Greg posted: http://blog.summitcloud.com/2010/05/disable-reporting-services-data-cache-in-development/ That explains which config file controls the data caching, and says that refreshing the preview may actually get you fresh data. (I'm running a long query now, so I don't know yet if that works.)
Try hitting the Refresh button on the Preview tab.
If I understand properly, that is the same issue I had with mine.
I could see the query run successfully in the Report Data window but whenever I ran the Preview of the report, I was getting no results.
I realised after a bit of mucking around, all I needed to do was hit the Refresh button (mini icons on the the Preview tab) to get the Preview refreshed with the new data.
Is there anything different regarding the dataset's parameters? Do report parameters feed the dataset at all? If so what are they?
Is the report a server report? If so what is the time set to on the server?
There are no report parameters.....the exact same sql is run everytime. I'm not sure what you mean when you ask if the report is a server report.
i have one theory that i haven't been able to test. this report is not deployed to Report Manager but is being run from Visual Studio. I don't know if that makes a difference.
Pressing the refresh button in BIDS VS2010 for me isn't working. Nor did deleting the cache file. My issue was that I didn't have a Row Group - so it was only showing one (old) record on the report.