Lately, I have installed SSDT on my Visual Studio, and find out that I cannot do anything in the designer window.
The first - when I create a new report file (.rdl), it comes with 8 cells, instead of working body area of the report.
And second - I cannot drag any tools from the toolbox. When I drag, the mouse cursor turns to be a crossed circle (not available sign).
Any ideas, what it can be? I have reinstalled Visual Studio and components several times, with different scenarios. Nothing helps.
My platform is:
Windows 10 Home 64-bit,
SQL Server 2016 Std 64-bit (Database and Reporting Services),
SSDT 17.1,
Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise (Update 3)
P.S: screenshot is attached
It looks like your entire windows is covered by the parameter layout pane. So it looks something like this.
See you see the thick bar above the groups pane (just over halfway down)
Drag that up and you'll see you report layout pane.
Those 8 cells for the input parameters, you can't place the toolbox items directly.
Right click on any of the cell -> Add Parameter -> General -> Select any Data Type from the dropdownlist to create the parameter.
Also in the Name and Prompt box provide valid details to show the input parameter details. Also you can Delete Row or Delete column by right click on the cell.
In the Report Data, you can add the Datasets for the input parameters (in case if it is dropdownlist) and for the body of the report.
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I've never seen this problem before.
The report elements are not updating from changes made in the Design mode in Visual Studio (2015). It's not a data issue - even static text box changes are not appearing.
I had removed the Member ID column, combined the last and first names into a single Member Name column, added a couple of columns and renamed SEX to Gender. Here's the Design view.
These changes should appear when I click on Preview but Visual Studio displays the old report.
As I mentioned, I haven't seen this before and haven't found any similar issues when using Google-Fu. I have tried restarting VS but that was no help. The only thing I did to get from the first pic to the second is to press the Preview button in Visual Studio. I've been trying to make it update for over half an hour now. I've updated and created hundreds of SSRS report over the last 15 years but have never seen or heard of this issue.
Is there some new preview caching that SSRS is now doing? It seems similar to the dumb data caching issue but I don't see where the report would be cached. This is completely ridiculous - what moron would create a caching for something being developed so changes can't be viewed?
How can I see the correct preview in my SSRS report in Viusual Studio?
In Microsoft Visual Studio when i run a Report using a Preview the data is showing and when the same report i run from server side its not showing the same data as per the Visual Studio Preview
please suggest
Visual Studio caches locally data in order to reduce the generation time for design puroposes, it will only update the data if you change the parameters values so if your report doesn't have any parameter you will get old data.
To refresh Visual Studio data preview the report and press the refresh button inside the generated report.
Let me know if this can help you.
I had a very similar problem. When I previewed on VS 2015, everything displayed perfect, but when I deployed to my server successfully, only one field wasn't showing up.
What ended up working was changing my report data sets from shared to embedded. Even though they were referencing the same query, somehow there was a disconnect when referencing the shared data set rather than embedding it directly in the report.
I've been useing VS2005 to create sql reports and now have to upgrade to 2008 for a DB thats on SQL Server 2008.
With 2005 I can swap between dataset-Layout-Preview easily but with 2008 I can only seem to swap between layout-preview...
Where's my code if I want to edit it as I go along or add datasets etc..
Thanks ion advance..
You need to show the dataset designer panel (its a dockable panel like "Properties" or "Toolbox"). When you open the report in design view and then open the "View" menu, it should be the last item in the menu.
This is where you create your data sets and manage report parameters.
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I'm not sure what the menu item's called in the English version of VS 2008. I did the following now: I opened an existing VS2005 Reporting project in VS 2008 and followed the wizard to convert the project. Then I double-clicked one report in the solution explorer to open the designer. Then I already had a docked window that's called "Berichtsdaten" (Report Data?) in German. I see a menu item in the "View" menu at the bottom called "Berichtsdaten" with a "Ctrl+Alt+D" shortcut (see attached image).
You may have to try different activated elements. For example, the item may not be shown if the "Properties" window is active. Try clicking at some free space in the report designer first.
I see several examples that show how to use the Execute SQL task. One such example I see this screen shot:
There are a lot of tasks there that I don't have in my task list. The one I am looking for is "Execute SQL".
I also note that they don't have "OLE DB Command" (which is what I would usually use to call SQL).
Do I just have a different version? Is "OLE DB Command" the successor to "Execute SQL"? Or is there some way to get the stuff I am missing?
You might be inside a Data Flow - that will only show you items related to a Data Flow (Data Flow Sources, Data Flow Transformations, Data Flow Destinations).
If you are in the Control Flow, and cannot see the items you indicate as missing, you can right click to add.
This will give you a dialog box where you can choose the items that you want to add
In SQL 2012 / VS 2010, the Execute SQL Task only appears in the Favorites bar at the top. This is confusing - why is it only a favourite?
You can however right-click and "move" to Common, but not "copy" to Common:
I had this issue in VS 2010 and VS 2012. To fix it, here's what I had to do:
Exit Visual Studio
Navigate to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio
Go to the folder for your version (e.g. 11.0 for VS 2012)
Rename all *.tbd files, e.g. to *.tbd.old
Open visual studio
Open toolbox by going to View > Other Windows > SSIS Toolbox
Similar problem here:
http://geekswithblogs.net/AskPaula/archive/2013/07/11/153385.aspx
I've been following this tutorial (lesson 6) in order to build and deploy a sample report with an embedded subreport which reads its parameters' values from the parent report. This subreport is embedded in one of the group rows of the report's table, and both share the same datasource. Additionally, detail rows appear collapsed until the user presses the (+) button for each group of data in the table.
The report works great when I preview it at the Business Intelligence Development Studio (by the way, SQL 2005 Express edition) but when I deploy it and try to see in the Report Manager, the subreport is not shown. And, if I press the (+) button, the following message appears:
Some parameters or credentials have not been specified
Does anybody has the slightest idea of what I am doing wrong? Why does it works perfectly in the Report Viewer embedded in Visual Studio but not in the Report Manager web app?
Thanks in advance.
Does the subreport use the same Data Source as the parent report? If not, be sure to check the data source of the subreport to make sure it is correct. Check in Report Manager, not your local copy.
I'm beginning to think this could be an issue with the browser. I'm currently using Internet Explorer 8 Beta and I'm also experiencing weird behavior from the Report Manager. I've tried with Google Chrome and Firefox 3 and, although the navigation is not as smooth as I like, the problem seems fixed.
it happens when you use IE8 as a report browser. I faced same issue and when I tested on chrome it worked fine .
This may or may not be related, but I had a similar problem some time ago (except that in my case the reports were accessed through a custom web page) and it turned out we had an older version of the report viewer control (the version that came with Sql 2005 RTM). After upgrading to the latest version the issue went away.