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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
Monday, April 27, 2009 4:15 PM

Localizing a report model

Reports and report models can be localized at many levels. Following are some ideas around the current support in SQL Server 2008 for each type of localization. - Localized metadata at report design time o Example : Spanish report author sees “Cliente”
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Monday, April 27, 2009 1:58 PM

Considerations for a large report model

Customer report models that vary in size from a few to a few hundred entities. Little Northwind with its 10 or so entities comes in around 200K, but we've seen models a hundred times that size (over 20 MB). One of the key drivers of model size is the
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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
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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
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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
Friday, March 06, 2009 9:22 AM

Call for feedback: What are you doing with report models?

Are you using a report model in your organization? The Reporting Services product team wants to hear from you ! What type of organization is using the model (dept/workgroup, small/mid business, enterprise)? How long have you been using your model? What
Posted by bobmeyers | 0 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,
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Attachment(s): GetModelEntityIDs.zip
Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:00 AM

A better way to model inheritance

I've been playing around with a report model we use internally here in the SQL Server product group. At a conceptual level, the data being modeled makes heavy use of inheritance (EntityA "is a" EntityB), but in working with the model and with Report Builder,
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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
Friday, September 28, 2007 7:06 AM

Filtering on totals in Report Builder

Since releasing Report Builder almost two years ago, we've found that many users run into difficulty at some point with filtering on totals . A classic example of this is, "show me a list of customers with more than $5000 in Accessory sales." "Accessory
Posted by bobmeyers | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): Filtering on totals - Examples.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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