Source files for shared datasets are lost/missing. Any way to generate these from the SSRS report definition that is referencing them?
Thanks!
You can just download them from the server again.
Go to you SSRS home page (Report Manager, or Web Portal as its known in later versions of SSRS).
You might need to show hidden items, then open the datasets folder and you will see your shared datasets.
Click the one you need and there are options to either download the *.rsd file or open it directly in Report Builder, either way you will have *.rsd file which you can either add back into your Visual Studio project or open in a text editor and get the command text.
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Dears,
I am quite new with Report Builder, and also with SSRS so sorry in advance if I raise irrelevant questions. My goal, essentially, is to deploy a sort of SQL Monitoring dashboard (I just uploaded a demo picture of it, here the link 1 ), that is composed by a main report with some charts and toggled sub reports. All these sub reports are filtered by the SQL instance name, and other parameters like number of monitoring days, months etc...
Plus I make use only of shared datasets.
Now, if I deploy the whole solution with Visual Studio against my report server, it works perfectly and all the report parts are uploaded without any issue against the report site.
If I try to deploy the report using the report website manager (by trying to upload the whole solution file by file), it does not upload anything, even if I create first the data source and then trying to add the existing datasets.
If I try to deploy the solution with Report Builder (after having giving to it the target report server URL and an existing folder that starts with slash), the only option I have is to open the solution as file, and save it against the target report server configured. But then the annoying error appears even if I the path has less than 260 char and even if the path starts with the slash:
"Error: The path of the dataset "" is not valid. The full path must be
less than 260 characters long; other restrictions apply. If the report
server is in native mode, the path must start with slash.
(rsInvalidItemPath)"
What am I doing wrong? I thought that a tool like that, used also for publishing, would make the life easier, but apparently I may not know exactly how to use it.
We have 2 reporting server. One for test and one for production. Our business analyst will build the reports (rdl files) using Report Builder 3.0. After they complete the development and test on test reporting server (e.g. http://test/reportserver), we will modify the "ReportServerUrl" and Datasource, and then upload to production reporting server (e.g. http://prod/reportserver).
The problem is I cannot find in the Report Builder 3.0 UI how to configure this change. The only way I find is open the RDL file using Notepad, locate and then change the URL.
Since our analyst are not programmers I want to avoid use notepad. May I know where is the button to change ReportServerUrl?
Each time you add a Shared DataSource to a report or edit an existing DataSource (and therefore connect to a Report Server), the current report server is updated. This is shown in the bottom left of your Report Builder window ("Current report server...") and also gets written to the <rd:ReportServerUrl> tag in the .rdl file itself. This is just an indicator of the last Report Server which was connected to by the report.
Therefore, if you wish to change the <rd:ReportServerUrl>, you just need to amend the DataSource(s) in the report to be ones which reside on the Report Server whose URL you wish to have appear.
We have a fully working TFS 2013 and have access to the default reports of the process template that we are using. Now we created a new report and try to make it appear in the team explorer of VS2013. Searching the internet indicated that the only possible option would be to download the process template, change the reporting part (e.g. adding the new report as default report) and then upload the "default" reports then via command line tool (tfpt addprojectreports ...)
Since changing (including adding) areas, iterations and other stuff can be done in the "live" system (without editing the process TEMPLATE), it is hard for me to believe that there is no way to add reports without changing the process template.
Does anyone know how to upload a new report? Of course, in the end we would like to see the report in the team explorer...
try http://yourReportingServer/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx
then navigate via collection, project to the folder you want the report to show up in, then "upload file".
You can directly upload the .rdl file to SSRS of your TFS instance.
I am working on a report project in SSRS 2008. There will be 14 reports (separate rdl files) in this project and I want to use the exact same header design for all of them. I have created the header in the first report, is there a way either save the header (it has a couple images, background color and a couple textboxes, one with an expression) as a single object which can them be copied to each report, or maybe create each new report based off this one report, then I can just change the dataset? Thanks.
In Report Builder 3.0:
The most straightforward way to do this is the old "Save As" trick. (Save a copy of your original report under a new name and use the copy to make a new report)
You could also locate the header block in your .rdl xml section and copy and paste that into your finished reports, but that is more likely to generate difficult to trace errors.
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.