I am trying to connect power bi to the dataset behind a SSRS report that is saved on Sharepoint. The report is a rdl file. Is it even possible to connect to the data behind the report if I do not know the name of the report server? I tried using the Odata connector but could not get that to work. If anyone has ever done this please let me know how you went about it, because I have spent a lot of time trying to find the name of the report server but have not had any luck.
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I have created an SSRS report on my local computer, which is published, and I can view it from my local SQL Server Reporting Services URL. Now I want to access (view) that report from another computer. It is just a different separate office computer and I have created a windows group and added 2nd computer's account as well. Is it possible? If yes, please kindly suggest to me the procedure for that.
I have googled it but could not find any answer to what I aspect. I just want to access my SSRS report accessible from another computer.
We've gearing up for a potential Cloud Server Migration as our In-House Server is aging and its capabilities are now being limited vs latest technologies. However, one constraint I'm looking at is the problem of Migrating our Power BI Report Server's reports.
In the past, I was able to migrate from SSRS to Power BI Report Server with the help of a script that automatically backups all Reports in the Server while also populating them in the same Folder Structure as they were in the Server.
I've done some extensive research but I haven't seen any similar approach for Power BI and I was wondering if anyone else have encountered the same problem and/or have a solution for it.
I found a Question posted here on Stackoverflow that is centered for SSRS but somehow also works for Power BI Server. You just need to install this PowerShell Extension and fire the script away.
The only issue here is that it only backs up paginated reports (.rdl) and not .pbix or Graphical Reports.
Good morning, All.
First let me start off by saying that I'm extremely new at CRM and even after reading umpteen million articles, whitepapers, and blog entries, I still feel completely lost.
I have an instance of Dynamics CRM 2013 On Premise that I'm trying to write custom reports for. Before I realized that all reports had to be done inside of BIDS, I wrote out a beautiful custom Quote inside of SSRS itself. I made sure to use the Filtered Views in my query to the database, and the structure of the query seems sound, but I can't seem to upload the .rdl file into CRM.
I get the error:
Reporting Error
Error occurred while setting the data source for the report
I have two questions:
How do I move this report into CRM without having to fully recreate it in BIDS?
How do I pass the Quote ID from CRM to this report query?
Thanks in advance for all of your help.
Edit: Added Error Message
You Should be able to upload the RDL directly to CRM...
Try creating a really basic report with the same data source and something along the lines of "select top 10 from filteredincident" and upload it.
If it works then you know it's something with your query.
CRM is notorious for giving error messages that don't have enough information, or are at worst misleading. I've seen this error when I accidentally used non filtered tables and a autofilter parameter that was incorrect.
Also take a look at the SSRS server that CRM talks to, if it's misconfigured that may cause an issue as well. You may want to try uploading your report to SSRS and run it from there to ensure that SSRS is working correctly.
I have created few SSRS reports in SQL server 2012 with Visual Studio 2010 version.
And I have deployed them to one SharePoint Site.
I want to make this automated, so that data available in the reports are up to date.
So, now I would like to create SSIS package which will run periodically to get up to date data using integration services. I am very much new to SSIS. I have tried to look at different sites for this, but I am not getting an exact idea from where to start.
Can anyone please guide me on this? How can I create a WSDL file URL for the SharePoint report? Do I really need it if report is already made in SSRS or do I just want to run that?
Thank you.
Would SSRS caching solve your problem?
Otherwise, there's nothing SSIS specific to solving your problem. You will simply need to use the .NET library to visit the page with the appropriate parameters. Visit your report page and copy the full URL.
Inside a Script Task use that URL as part of the WebClient. You'll probably need to supply credentials with this. No need to deal with storing the output, you'll simply want to validate that you get a 200 message code
Can you clarify what you are trying to achieve? Do you want to automate the running of the Reporting Services reports? In that case you should look at Report Subscriptions.
I'm having trouble figuring this out.
I stopped ALL of local SQL Services, e.g. SQL Server, SQL Agent, Reporting Services. Then using Report Builder 2.0 to create a report connecting to a remote SQL Server (No SSRS running) out in the farm. When I click on "Run" button, for some odd reasons, it still render the report.
I thought you must have SSRS running in the first place. Is SQL Reporting Services even required for Report Builder?
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When Reporting Services runs a report, it creates a data file of the data used in the report and, if nothing changes, it uses that data the next time the report runs instead of hitting the server again. You could be seeing the cached data.
Look where the report is kept. There will be a report file, say MyReport.rdl and also the data, MyReport.rdl.data. You could delete that data file otherwise simply changing the report parameters (if you have some) will generally cause the report to disregard the cached data and make a trip to the server again.
I'm answering my own question. Here's my observation after some googling and experimenting.
Report Builder is using a stand alone report control to render report. Visual Studio.NET is probably using the same thing when preview a report. SSRS is required when developers need to incorporate web-based reporting solution, e.g. ASP.NET, as well as to manage reports.
What's really bothering me is that to author reports in VS.NET, I must be using Business Intelligence Projects. In order to do that, I must install SQL Server 2005/2008 with SSRS. Why is so when SSRS is not even required in a LOCAL environment?