Hands-On Procedure
Preparation
Create a Reporting
Services Project
To
begin, we will launch Reporting Services' Report Designer, found in Microsoft
Visual Studio .NET 2003.
1.
Click Start.
2.
Navigate to
the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 shortcut in the Programs
group, as appropriate.
The
equivalent on my PC appears as depicted in Illustration 2.
3.
Select File
--> New from the main menu.
4.
Click Project
from the cascading menu, as shown in Illustration 3.
The New
Project dialog appears. Business Intelligence Projects appears in
the Project Types tree, indicating an installation of Reporting
Services.
5.
Click Business Intelligence Projects in the Project Types tree, if necessary.
6.
Click Report
Project in the Templates list.
7.
Type the
following into the Name box, leaving other settings at default:
RS016
8.
Navigate to a
location in which to place the Report Project files.
The New Project
dialog appears, with our additions, as depicted in Illustration 4.
Illustration 4: The New
Projects Dialog, with Addition
Our
new project appears in the Solution Explorer (upper right corner
of the Visual Studio .NET interface), as we see in Illustration 5.
Illustration 5: The New
Project Appears in the Solution Explorer
Having created a Report
Project, we are ready to proceed with creating the new report clone.
Enhancing
the Territory Sales Drilldown Report to Include Ad Hoc Sorting
In this section, we
will copy the existing Territory Sales Drilldown report, and then open
it in Reporting Services' Report Designer, where we will begin the
modifications that the information consumers have requested.
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