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Friday, July 31, 2009 5:09 PM

Add Excel-like "color scale" conditional formatting to your reports

I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time, and it looks like David Lean beat me to it earlier this year by posting an incredibly thorough four-part discussion of how to do conditional formatting in Reporting Services . I’ve played with his sample code
Posted by bobmeyers | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): ColorScales.vb.txt
Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:28 PM

SQL Server 2008 SP1 available now with important Report Builder 2.0 updates

SQL Server 2008 SP1 is now available, and includes some important updates related to Report Builder 2.0: - RB 2.0 can now be deployed directly from the report server using ClickOnce. You can also configure whether RB 1.0 or RB 2.0 is launched from the
Posted by bobmeyers | 0 Comments
Friday, March 27, 2009 9:26 PM

Help RB 2.0 users find and use shared data sources

Report Builder 2.0 makes it easy for business users to browse for and use centrally-defined and managed data sources. It does this by supporting direct connection to a report server as part of the design experience. It also maintains a list of recently-used
Posted by bobmeyers | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): DefaultFolders.zip
Friday, March 06, 2009 9:36 AM

What is that extra column of 'AB.gAAAA=' values when I run a report model query?

Most people using Report Builder 2.0 with a report model soon ask the question, what is that extra column I get back with strange values like “AC8AAAA=” in it? Answer: It's an entity key value . If you’re going to create a group on that entity in your
Posted by bobmeyers | 2 Comments
Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:45 AM

How to build a Clickthrough link in Report Builder 2.0

As I mentioned in a previous post , due to resource constraints in this release, Report Builder 2.0 is not a strict superset of RB 2005/1.0. One of the features missing from RB 2.0 is automatic creation of Clickthrough links . You can still get them,
Posted by bobmeyers | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): GetModelEntityIDs.zip
Thursday, March 05, 2009 6:46 AM

Report Builder 2.0: Whither report models?

Just a quick post to answer the inevitable question when those familiar with Report Builder 2005/1.0 start playing with Report Builder 2.0 : Whither report models? The short answer is that they are still available as a data source type, and the report
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 1:44 AM

Sorting the values in parameter dropdowns in Report Builder

In SQL 2005 the semantic queries generated by Report Builder do not support sorting. This is not a problem in the report itself, because all sorting is defined and implemented in the report definition instead of the query. However, for parameter dropdowns
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Attachment(s): SQLReportModelDP.zip
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:28 AM

Requiring Report Builder users to choose a perspective

Some customers have report models that are large enough they do not expect any user to ever request the entire model, and would actually prefer to disallow that option, and require them to choose a perspective instead. There is an undocumented and unsupported
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Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:04 PM

Launching Report Builder from the command line

A number of people have asked if it is possible to launch RB from the command line. While it is in fact possible, it is an unsupported feature in SQL Server 2005. That said, here's how to do it. You just need to specify what report server to connect to,
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Monday, January 15, 2007 10:19 AM

Using that little checkbox in the Report Builder filter dialog

The Filter dialog in Report Builder has a little checkbox near the bottom that many users have asked about. The checkbox label says, "When adding a new condition, apply to all data in my report." The effect of selecting this checkbox is that when subsequent
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:32 PM

I want to reference a parameter (twice!) in a formula filter condition

In this release of Report Builder there is no direct support for referencing parameters in the Formula dialog. They will show up if you edit a prompted filter condition as a formula, but there is no way to directly insert a parameter reference. However,
Posted by bobmeyers | 2 Comments
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:12 PM

Enforcing timeouts on Report Builder queries

I've attached a sample C# project illustrating how to create a custom data processing extension ( more info ) that enforces a maximum timeout on any SQL queries submitted to it, including those generated from Report Builder. To try it out: Open and build
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Attachment(s): SQLTimeoutDP.zip
Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:26 PM

How to enable Report Builder for non-domain users

Report Builder uses a client technology called ClickOnce to download and launch the application files. This component runs outside of Internet Explorer, so it cannot leverage any credentials that may have been collected by IE to access the report server.
Posted by bobmeyers | 2 Comments
Thursday, March 16, 2006 4:15 AM

Adding parameters (prompts) to a Report Builder report

You easily can add basic parameters to a Report Builder report using the Filter dialog. For example, to let the user choose which year to view sales data for, add an Order Year filter condition to your report filter, then, instead of specifying a value,
Posted by bobmeyers | 4 Comments
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:18 PM

Report Builder launch parameters

To launch Report Builder, use one of the following URLs (also documented on MSDN ): http://<servername>/reportserver/reportbuilder/reportbuilder.application (Full Trust) http://<servername>/reportserver/reportbuilder/reportbuilderlocalintranet.application
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