Building an enterprise wide corporate reporting solution. Introducing SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, страница 4

 Set the details band visibility to Hidden=True as well

·  Save and preview the report

·  Tell a few words about the Organizational Structure of Adventure Works

Task № 2.3.1 action scenario

1.  Publish designed reports to the Reporting Server

·  Open the Project properties and setTargetServerURL - http://localhost/reportserver

·  In the project context menu choose Build\ Deploy project

·  Open http://localhost/Reports page in web browser and make a tryout for the reports published in your folder

·  Look at some other demo reports available on the server

2.  Check out Reporting Server Administration features

·  Navigate to http://localhost/Reports

·  Open Site Settings (top right corner)

·  Find out Role Based Security settings

3.  Set up permissions for certain report/report folder

·  Open a report. Navigate to  Properties\Security pane

Extra curricular tasks

1.  Add a published report to the SharePoint Portal. Use web parts page

2.  Create report with cascading parameters. When you choose a ProductCategory value – ProductSubcategory parameter combobox automatically filled with appropriate Subcategories. Add “All categories” parameter used by default.

Task № 2.4 action scenario

1.  Close all active projects in Visual Studio.  (File – Close Project)

2.  Create a new project (File – New Project – Report Model Project)

3.  Add a new shared datasource in the  Data Sources folder (Solution pane), link it to Adventure Works OLTP database

4.  Create a datasource view in the Data Source View folder – using context menu - Add New Datasource View

·  Use the wizard, choose the data tables regarding products and purchasing. You are already familiar with these tables.

·  Double-click on the view to open it in the designer pane

·  Now we are ready to generate the model – a meta data structure, that brings complex datasources to analysts describing the underlying data in terms of a certain knowledge domain or industry

·  Choose context menu Report Models – New Model

·  Name the model  Prod Purchasing

·  Use the wizard to create it

·  The data is inspected for (entities) and relations between them (roles). Numeric and time-intelligent aggregates are proposed.

QUESTION ?We can choose Update statistics option on next step. What actionable help does it provide while building a semantic model ?

5.  Publish model to the Reporting Server  (Menu: Build - Deploy)

6.  Launch Report Builder application

·  Navigate to http://localhost/Reports

·  Click Report Builder

·  Answer ‘yes’ if  Report Builder component is downloaded form the server for the 1^st  time and requires installation permission

7.  Create an ad-hoc interactive report using the published model

·  Choose the model

·  Check out the toolbar on the top. It helps analytic to design and preview a report without having to deal with linking to databases, writing SQL queries, etc. Save button allows to save a new report to a folder on the Reporting services