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 Shared Data Sources folder, in
the Solution Explorer.
2.
Select Add
--> Add Existing Item from the cascading context menus
that appear, as depicted in Illustration 6.
The Add Existing Item - MDX_DRILLTHROUGH 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 - MDX_DRILLTHROUGH dialog, navigate to the location
of the sample reports in your own environment.
An
example of the Add Existing Item - MDX_DRILLTHROUGH dialog, having been pointed to the sample Reports
folder (which contains
the Foodmart Sales report we seek), appears as partially shown in Illustration 7.
Illustration 7: 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 8.
Illustration 8: Performing a Quick Copy of the FoodMart
Sales Report
6.
Within the Add Existing Item - MDX_DRILLTHROUGH dialog, navigate to the MDX_DRILLTHROUGH
folder we created earlier, when we added the new MDX_DRILLTHROUGH
project.
7.
Right-click
somewhere in the white space inside the MDX_DRILLTHROUGH folder, within
the dialog.
8.
Select Paste
from the context menu that appears, as shown in Illustration 9.
Illustration 9: Select Paste within the New Folder ...
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:
MDX_DRILLTHROUGH.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 10.
Illustration 10:
The New Report File, MDX_DRILLTHROUGH.rdl
12.
Click the
white space to the right of the file name, to accept the new name we have
assigned.
13.
Re-select the
new file by clicking it.
14.
Click Open
on the dialog box to add the new report to report project MDX_DRILLTHROUGH.
MDX_DRILLTHROUGH.rdl
appears in the
Reports folder, within the MDX_DRILLTHROUGH project tree in the Solution
Explorer, as shown in Illustration 11.
Illustration 11: The New Report Appears
in Solution Explorer - Report Folder
15.
From the main
menu in the design environment, select File ---> Save All, as
depicted in Illustration 12.
Illustration 12: Select File --> Save All to Save
Our Work So Far ...
Leaving
the Report Designer open, we will now briefly visit Analysis Services
to enable drillthrough for the Warehouse sample cube, which we
will then target with MDX queries in our practice exercise.
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