I'm trying to create a report in SSRS (Visual Studio 2012) for Dynamics 2011 using fetchXML. I have downloaded and installed the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Report Authoring Extension (with SQL Server Data Tools support) but I cannot find the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Fetch Type when I try to create a report, please, does any one have any suggestions?
Probably you are trying to create the report in some already existed project, I had the same issue with VS2010 in that case.
To make Fetch XML data source be visible you must create new project in Visual Studio. If all installations were successful, you must be able to create project with Business Intelligence/Report Server Project template, than create new report and in Report Data window (if it not appears automatically - just click on any place on report, go to View menu and find Report Data window) right click on Datasets, than pick "Use a dataset embeded in my report", click "New..." button near Data source drop down and there you should see Microsoft Dynamics CRM Fetch connection type.
Have no possibility to test this with VS2012, hope this will help.
As far as I know the latest version of SQL is SQL 2012 and BIDS for it is done using VS2010. So answer is quite simple - you would not be able to build a report using VS2012, you will have to use VS2010.
You're missing the Report Authoring Extensions. Install these and you'll have the FetchXML in the list.
If you've upgraded to a later CRM version since this post, just search on that version of extension installer instead (2013/2015/2016).
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I have some questions regarding the differences between working on reports in Visual Studio (SSRS) and Microsoft Report Builder. When first starting up Report Builder, I connect to a report server, connect to a data source, and then add datasets. This is what the screen usually looks like below:
On visual studio, when starting a new reporting services project, I am not prompted to connect to a report server. I can navigate to the report file and open it to design the report, but cannot add any data. When adding a data source, I am prompted to select the type of data source (SQL Server, Report Server Model, etc) and I have tried to connect to the same data source I had connected to in Report Builder, but I cannot access the shared datasets. Here is the visual studio prompt below:
Why am I unable to connect to a report server in visual studio and pulled the shared datasets in that report server?
what you need to do in visual studio is to create a Shared Data Source first
Under your report project (right hand side) , right click on your Shared data Sources and create a new one
Once you have created and tested the connection here you can use this for new reports in this project.
When you create a report, under report data, right click Sata Sources -> Add new Data Source then give it a suitable name and then select "Use Shared Data Source Reference" and then select the Data Source you created in the previous step
Once you have done this, you can then create a Data Set using the Data Source created above. (Embedded in the report)
But if you want to use shared Data Set, then the Shared Dataset needs to have this data source assigned.
Hope that made sense.
I'm a newbie when it comes to SSDT and connecting to TFS to create reports. One of the reports that I generate twice a day is a very manual process. I'd like to automate it or at least try. I'm having a hard time finding a step by step guide that shows how to use SSDT to connect to TFS 2015 and use WIT queries.
The example that anyone sends me can be very simple. I have some workitem queries in TFS that return the data.
One query returns all Critical 1 bugs and the other query returns High 2 bugs.
How to I use those queries to build the report in SSRS? Do I connect to the TFS_Datawarehouse or to the TFS_Analysis in the reporting server?
If you mean custom reports with SSRS, then you can reference below samples:
Using Custom Reports in TFS: Part 3 – How to set up my reporting
environment and structure
TFS Reports using SSRS
More information about the TFS report you can refer to below links:
Create and manage Reporting Services reports
Add reports to a team project
How To: Create a Custom Report for Visual Studio Team Foundation
Server
Creating and Customizing TFS Reports
Sorry for being a newbie to SSRS.
My design goal:
Near term: develop - using SSRS - a simple client side (no reporting server!) report - based on MS SQL data tables, and embed it into the .NET WPF client (application)
Long term: for additional reports, hire external SSRS experts, so they will provide the reports developed, and I will integrate them into the same WPF application.
I managed to do 2 things:
Develop a simple report connecting to MS SQL, using Reports Builder 3.0 - as a result, an RDL file was generated (the file contains all the DB connections)
Embed a ReportViewer WinForms control into the WPF application.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to load the report I developed, into the application.
I understood from articles on the new that RDL is not designed to support client-side execution (without a server), and RDLC should be used instead. However, I wasn't able to figure out how to conver the report to RDLC, using the Reports Builder - it does not give me an option to save in a different format.
I would appreciate any hint from the experienced people on how to accomplish my goal.
Specifically, should I use RDLC, and if positive - what's the way to get the report in this format?
Thanks
Max
I would recommend using Visual Studio when creating RDLC reports that will be embedded within an application and run in "Local" mode, and using either Microsoft Report Builder or Visual Studio to create RDL reports that will run in "Server" mode within SSRS.
A RDLC report would be created within a WPF Visual Studio project be simply creating a new Report.
A RDL report would be created within a Reports Server project when using Visual Studio.
Alternatively, it appears you could simply rename the file from RDL to RDLC if you don't mind manually correcting the Data Source information in the report definition file: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252109(v=vs.120).aspx.
I have just moved into a new company and the people who setup their reports set them up under projects and then created reports. Using Visual Studio they then updated to the server, created a linked report to sub folders via internet explorer interface.
I have now found that to update any of these reports, I have to update them to the project location and then delete the old report and create a new linked report.
I am hoping that there is a gap in my knowledge and there is another way to do this. Alternatively is there a way I can move the reports to their respective folders. I do not have access to the reportserver to create folders but can apply to IT to get these done.
Would love some help so I do not spend days updating most of these reports.
Thanks
If I understand you correctly they are developing the reports in visual studio and using the deploy function to upload them to the reporting server. They then create a linked report using the web-based report manager interface so that the report is the accessible from another location.
I haven't tested it using the auto-deployment feature of visual studio, but at least if you update the main report then all linked reports will now be the new version as well. So you should just be able to deploy from visual studio and have all of the old linked reports work as well. Only if the auto-deployment process involves deleting the original report before uploading will the linked reports be broken. As long as it is a simple update/replace operation it will be fine.
If it is actually deleting the reports during deployment and the linked reports stop functioning (giving an error something like "the report link is no longer valid") then you don't actually have to fully delete and recreate the linked report. You can go to the properties of the linked report and update the link location so that it will no point to the proper report again (tested on 2008 R2). This will save you from having to redo all of the security and subscriptions that the linked report may have.
I have use SSRS 2008 before installing SharePoint 2010. I dig around that there is a way to switch the mode from native to sharepoint integration but the question now is when i did my swicth did all my reports in native mode are gone? need to be rebuild?
I was exactly looking for the same thing.
Apparently you need to create a new database in integrated mode, and then upload all your reports (you can script this task). I think it's also needed to then manually recreate subscriptions and any other configurations....
for more detils:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/da-DK/sqlreportingservices/thread/942e72b6-a9c5-4874-8d68-8b658e8705b5