Fixing Reporting Services Errors (rsWrongItemType) in July CTP
If you’ve successfully installed Team Foundation Server and created a team project, you’ll likely see this on the home page of the team project portal site:
This is a known issue in the July CTP. To fix this issue, here’s the workaround you’ll need to do for each of the reporting Web parts:
- On the Web Part Menu, click Modify Shared Web Part.
- In the Page Viewer Toolpart, click Test Link. This will open a new browser window using the specified link, which will redirect to the correct page.
- In the browser, copy the URL of the page to which you were redirected.
- Paste the URL into the Link box in the Page Viewer Toolpart.
- Click OK.
Ultimately, what you’re doing is updating the link to point to the appropriate report. The link for each report will resemble the following:
http://SERVERNAME/ReportServer?%2fPROJECTNAME%2fREPORTNAME&rs:Command=Render&rc:toolbar=false
While working on this blog post I uncovered some other known issues:
- KNOWN ISSUE: For the Builds report, the link is for the Bug Rates report. You'll need to update the link to point to the Builds report.
- KNOWN ISSUE: The Quality Indicators report is missing from the MSF for Agile Software Development process template in this release.
- KNOWN ISSUE: The Remaining Work report will not contain any data until at least one item is completed.
I suggest replacing the missing report with one of the following (REPORTNAME value in parentheses):
- Project Velocity (Project+Velocity)
- Reactivations
- Work Items by Owner (Work+Items+by+Owner)
- Work Items by State (Work+Items+by+State)
