BlackBelt Administration: Linked Reports in Report Manager - Page 4June 19, 2006 Add a New Report Parameter upon Which to Base Customization of the Linked Reports 1. From our current position (Preview tab) within the report, click the Data tab. 2. Within the Filter pane (atop the MDX Query Designer, to the right of the Metadata pane), select Sales Territory via the Dimension column drop-down selector. 3. Select Sales Territory Group via the Hierarchy column drop-down selector. 4. Select Equal to the immediate right, in the Operator column. 5. Select the Europe, North America and Pacific checkboxes under the (expanded) All Sales Territories level within the selector underneath the Filter Expression column (to the immediate right of the Operator column, as shown in Illustration 20.
6. Click OK to accept selections. 7. Click the checkbox in the Parameters column to enable parameterization of the Sales Territory Group in the report. The Filter pane appears, with the new row we have added for the Sales Territory Group parameter, as depicted in Illustration 21.
Let's preview the report, once again, to verify operation of the parameter we have added. 8. Click the Preview tab to execute RS030_Linked Report.rdl, once again. 9. Select North America within the new parameter picklist, labeled Sales Territory Group, atop the report, as shown in Illustration 22.
10. Click View Report to execute the report. The report executes, returning a properly filtered preview, showing data for the North America Sales Territory Group only, depicted in Illustration 23.
Let's save our work to this point. 11. From the main menu in the design environment, select File ---> Save All, as shown in Illustration 24.
We now have an OLAP report file within our Reporting Services 2005 Project, with which we can proceed to examine the establishment of a Linked Report scenario. Our final preparatory step will be to deploy the report to Report Manager, where our setup for Linked Reports will take place. Deploy the Report to a Common Folder in Report Manager While we can create a Linked Report within either SQL Server Management Studio or Report Manager, the focus of this practice session will be to perform the setup within Report Manager. We deploy the report to a common folder, taking the following steps, assuming that we are logged in as a user with the appropriate Report Manager rights within Reporting Services. 1. Right-click the AdventureWorks Sample Reports project within the Solution Explorer. 2. Select Properties from the context menu that appears, as depicted in Illustration 25.
The AdventureWorks Sample Reports Properties Pages dialog opens. 3. Ensure that the entries similar to those in Table 1 (and appropriate for your own environment) appear within the associated input boxes, within the Deployment section of the dialog:
Table 1: Deployment Section – Project Properties Pages Dialog NOTE: While all of the above can reflect local settings of choice, the TargetServerURL must be a correct URL for the server upon which Report Manager is installed. The above reflects a name for one of my lab servers (TEMPLE001). The AdventureWorks Sample Reports Properties Pages dialog, Deployment section, appears as shown in Illustration 26.
4. Click OK to accept settings and to dismiss the dialog. 5. Right-click the new RS030_Linked Report within the Solution Explorer, once again. 6. Select Deploy from the context menu that appears, as depicted in Illustration 27.
Deployment begins. We can observe the events of the process, through completion, within the Output window of the design environment, as shown in Illustration 28.
7. Select File -> Exit, to leave the Business Intelligence Development Studio, when ready. Having deployed our sample report, we are ready to create Linked Reports at the Report Manager level. We will get some exposure to this process in the section that follows. |
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