MSSQL Server Reporting Services: Managing Reporting Services: Data Connections and Uploads - Page 4

Uploading the Reports

We will perform the upload of the sample reports set that accompanies Reporting Services to gain hands-on practice with the process, as well as to provide reports upon which to base other managing activities in this and prospective articles.

The Upload File page appears.

Navigate to the location of the sample reports (again, the Samples folder is installed within the Reporting Services program folder by default. A common example of this default path appeared in the "Accessing the Sample Reports" section above.)

The Samples folder appears in the Choose File dialog, once located, as depicted in Illustration 6.

The sample report definition files (.rdl's) and other object files appear. At this point, we will select the Company Sales report definition files.

The Company Sales file, along with default title (which we can change), appear in the respective boxes of the Upload File page, as depicted in Illustration 8.

NOTE: If you have already uploaded one or more of the sample reports, you can choose to overwrite report(s) of the same name that have been uploaded, or simply give the new report(s) new name(s), or place it / them within a new folder you can create on the fly.

The report file uploads. We can see it appear listed on the Folder view, Content tab, where we saw the new data source appear, as depicted in Illustration 9.