I'm having problem with SSRS Report Deployment. I've 2 Hundreds of Reports in my SSRS Report Solution. When, I deploy the Report it deploy all reports which is very time consuming.
Now, what I'm looking for is, I want to re-deploy only the Report I've changed recently.
In BIDS, I didn't found anything to support the feature I'm looking for.
So, If there is any possibility to Deploy a Single Report?
You can just deploy a single report by right clicking on the report itself and selecting Deploy:
One thing to note is that it will also try to deploy any Shared Data Source the report references.
However, if the project level property OverwriteDataSources is set to False this won't affect any Data Source that was deployed previously.
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We had a problem earlier when deploying a single report to the production environment, when, for reasons we don't understand, SSRS decided to also overwrite the Data Source associated with the report with settings that do not even match those currently in the project.
We want to understand why/how this happens, and what we need to be doing to control it - ie, what are we missing about SSRS that we need to be aware of.
The steps we took were as follows:
Before starting: This is to update an existing report, not a new report, so the Prod report server already has the Data Source and the (old) Report Definition. The Data Source (shared) does not need to be changed at all, nor do we believe we did anything that should have prompted SSRS to do so. We only intended to overwrite the old report definition with the new one.
Data Source within project modified to point to the production Sql Server source
Deployment settings within the project modified to point to the production Report Server
The single report deployed (literally by right-clicking TheReport.rdl in the Solution Explorer and then clicking Deploy). That is everything we did. We did not deploy or change anything else.
Expected result: report definition on the prod server overwritten with the new report. Data Source completely unchanged, because why would it be? We didn't deploy that (and in any case, the one in the project is pointing to prod, so it shouldn't even matter if it did)
Actual result: Report overwritten as expected. Data Source also overwritten... with the old dev settings. Not the ones currently in the project. All the other reports sharing this data source suddenly stop working or display dev server data.
What are we doing wrong? SSRS quietly overwriting the associated Data Source on the server when deploying a single report seems dangerous (we would likely have missed that it had even happened, had the data on these particular dev and live environments been similar enough) so I presume we are missing something we should be doing/checking when deploying reports, but are at a loss as to exactly what.
That is configuration to copy your datasources and datasets to the report portal or not. You can change the configuration by right click on your report project and select properties that will open up the property pages. There is an option to overwrite default settings. Please check below image for more details
By using the above configuration it will deploy dataset and data sources on SSRS server only if it is not exists on the server.
Hope this will work.
If I run a report within SSRS developer, I show no subtotals in specific rows, exactly as it should because there is nothing to subtotal. However, if I deploy the report, those same rows have an erroneous subtotal in them. I ensured I deployed and ran the correct report. I even deleted the report and re-deployed. I need to correct this because it is an important report that gets emailed to the entire company.
I believe This is very classic case of Data been saved as Cache in your local System. But when you deploy the Report, there is actual Data available on application.
What you need to do is delete this FileName.rdl.data file and try your report again in Developer, it should get update data from application
It is not the first time this question has been asked, but no solution has been found yet. The only thread I found somewhat relevant was this but it is 4 years old: SSRS Reports Versioning
Perhaps a solution has been found since then?
Back to my questions:
I have several reports in a Visual Studio solution (BIDS). From here I can deploy to several reporting servers: Test1, Test2 and Production.
1) It seems that the granularity of deployment is: Reports, Datasets and Datasources. This can be setup in Properties for the solution. But I want to be able to only deploy a single report, if I only have changes to one report. How do I do this? As it is now it seems that I have to deploy ALL reports.
2) Since I have more than 1 place to deploy there is a possibility of the reports getting out of sync. Normally the procedure would be to deploy the reports to Test until everything is fine, and thereafter deploy to Production. But since this is a manual process something can go wrong. Therefore I believe it would be nice to have some sort of versioning on the individual reports. But I can find no way of doing this? I'm thinking that it would be really nice if a timestamp and/or versionnumber could be set on the reports when they are deployed. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
How about putting the version number of the report on the report itself? You would need to run the report to see it though.
To deploy a single report, right-click on the report name and Deploy to deploy that report (or dataset or data source).
As far as the deployment issues, you can use version control such as Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/tfs-overview-vs.aspx
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?
Whenever I wish to debug a single report (.rdl file, Report Definition file), it always deploys everything in the solution. Can someone recommend a deployment strategy in order that I can localize deployment to the specific report I am working on, and not clobber the other reports in the solution? Those may have been worked on by another employee, and why should deployment occur across the board?
Right clicking on the specific report to deploy and choosing "Deploy" from "Solution Explorer" always works for me. Also, I keep OverwriteDatasources to false unless I specifically need to update that.