Create
a Copy of the FoodMart Sales Report
As we have noted, we
will be working with a copy of the FoodMart Sales report, to keep the
original sample intact for easy access and use at another time.
1.
Right-click
the Reports folder underneath the newly created shared data source, in
the Solution Explorer.
2.
Select Add
-> Add Existing Item from the cascading context menus that appear, as
depicted in Illustration 11.
The Add
Existing Item - RS011 dialog appears.
When we
installed Reporting Services, the default installation point for the sample
report files was the Samples folder within the Reporting Services
program folder. A common example of this default path is as follows:
C:\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\Samples\Reports
3.
Using the Add Existing Item - RS011 dialog, navigate to the location of the sample
reports in your own environment.
An example of the Add
Existing Item - RS011 dialog, having been pointed to the Samples folder (which contains the FoodMart
Sales report we seek), appears as
shown in Illustration
12.
Illustration 12: Navigating
to the Sample Reports Folder ...
4.
Right-click
the FoodMart Sales report inside the dialog.
5.
Select Copy
from the context menu that appears, as depicted in Illustration 13.
Illustration 13: Performing
a Quick Copy of the FoodMart Sales Report
6.
Right-click
somewhere in the white space to the right of the report files within the
dialog.
7.
Select Paste
from the context menu that appears, as shown in Illustration 14.
Illustration 14: Select
Paste to Complete Copying ...
A copy
of the FoodMart Sales report appears, with "Copy of" appended
at the front of the name of the file, within the dialog.
8.
Right-click
the new file.
9.
Select Rename
from the context menu that appears.
10.
Type the
following name in place of the highlighted existing name:
Foodmart Sales - Filtered Dataset.rdl
NOTE: Be sure to include the .rdl extension in the file name.
The
copy of the FoodMart Sales sample report appears as depicted in
Illustration 15.
Illustration 15: The New Report, FoodMart
Sales - Filtered Dataset.rdl
11.
Select the new
file by clicking it, if necessary.
12.
Click Open
on the dialog box to add the new report to report project RS011.
FoodMart
Sales - Filtered Dataset.rdl appears in the Reports folder, within the RS011 project tree in the
Solution Explorer, as shown in Illustration 16.
Illustration 16: FoodMart Sales -
Filtered Dataset.rdl Appears in Solution Explorer
Having
created a copy of the functional report, we are now ready to make the
modifications requested by the FoodMart information consumers.
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