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March 2009 - Posts

Tablix – Stepped Layout
Tablix enables the separation of data groupings and layout header areas.  A stepped layout can help with horizontal spacing, because nested groups can then share the same horizontal space, which was previously not possible in a matrix layout.  Read More...
Reporting and SQL Data Services
SQL Data Services (SDS) was shown at PDC in October, utilizing a REST based interface. As described in a previous posting , we also made available a SDS custom data extension for Reporting Services reports. A few days ago, we announced that besides the Read More...
Dynamic Drilldown in Reports and Charts
Just a quick post to reference two interesting reads about designing dynamic drilldown in reports: Sean Boon blogged about an approach to implement drilldown on charts with Reporting Services when Analysis Services is used as the data source. Chris Webb Read More...
Tablix – The Matrix Revolution
Tablix is the new underlying flexible data region and grouping structure introduced in Reporting Services 2008. Among other features, it enables asymmetric layouts, as demonstrated in the thumbnail screenshot below. If you use a list, table, matrix, chart, Read More...
Subreport Usage
In a previous post I showed how to quickly find reports that use custom report items (CRIs). The same idea can be applied to subreports as well. As an administrator of a report server, you may access the catalog database directly. Keep in mind that any Read More...
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