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,
and click, the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 shortcut in the Programs
group, as appropriate.
The
equivalent on my PC appears as depicted in Illustration 16.
Visual
Studio .NET 2003 opens
at the Start page.
3.
Select File
--> New from the main menu.
4.
Click Project
from the cascading menu, as shown in Illustration 17.
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:
RS018
8.
Navigate to a
location in which to place the Report Project files.
The New Project
dialog appears, with our input, as depicted in Illustration 18.
Illustration 18: 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 19.
Illustration 19: The New
Project Appears in the Solution Explorer
Having
created a Report Project, we are ready to proceed with creating
the new report clone.
Adding Multi-Layered Calculations in an OLAP Report
In
this section, we will copy the existing Foodmart Sales report, and then
open it in Reporting Services' Report Designer, where we will add the
calculations that are the focus of our article.
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 20.
Illustration 20: Adding
the Report to the Project ...
The Add
Existing Item - RS018 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 - RS018 dialog, navigate to the location
of the sample reports in your own environment.
An example
of the Add Existing Item - RS018 dialog, having been pointed to the sample
Reports folder
(which contains the Foodmart Sales report we seek), appears as partially shown in Illustration 21.
Illustration 21:
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 22.
Illustration 22:
Performing a Quick Copy of the FoodMart Sales Report
6.
Within the Add Existing Item - RS018
dialog, navigate to
the RS018 folder we created earlier, when we added the new RS018
project.
7.
Right-click
somewhere in the white space inside the RS018 folder, within the dialog.
8.
Select Paste
from the context menu that appears, as shown in Illustration 23.
Illustration 23: Select
Paste to Complete Copying ...
A copy
of the Foodmart Sales report appears within the dialog.
9.
Right-click
the new file.
10.
Select Rename
from the context menu that appears.
11.
Type the
following name in place of the highlighted existing name:
Multi-Layer_Calculations.rdl
NOTE: Be sure to include the .rdl extension in the file name.
The renamed
copy of the Foodmart Sales sample report appears as depicted in
Illustration 24.
Illustration 24: The New Report File, Multi-Layer_Calculations.rdl
12.
Select the new
file by clicking it, if necessary.
13.
Click Open
on the dialog box to add the new report to report project RS018.
Multi-Layer_Calculations.rdl
appears in the
Reports folder, within the RS018 project tree in the Solution Explorer,
as shown in Illustration 25.
Illustration 25: The New Report Appears
in Solution Explorer - Report Folder
Having
created a copy of the functional report, we are now ready to make the
enhancements requested by the FoodMart information consumers.
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