Create
a Copy of the Territory Sales Drilldown Report
As we
have noted, we will be working with a copy of the Territory Sales Drilldown
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 12.
Illustration 12: Adding
the Report to the Project ...
The Add
Existing Item - RS016 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 - RS016 dialog, navigate to the location
of the sample reports in your own environment.
An
example of the Add Existing Item - RS016 dialog, having been pointed to
the Samples folder
(which contains the Territory Sales Drilldown report we seek), appears as shown in Illustration 13.
Illustration 13:
Navigating to the Sample Reports Folder ...
4.
Right-click
the Territory Sales Drilldown report inside the dialog.
5.
Select Copy
from the context menu that appears, as depicted in Illustration 14.
Illustration 14:
Performing a Quick Copy of the FoodMart Sales Report
5.
Within the Add Existing Item - RS016
dialog, navigate to
the RS016 folder we created earlier.
6.
Right-click
somewhere in the white space inside the RS016 folder, within the dialog.
7.
Select Paste
from the context menu that appears, as shown in Illustration 15.
Illustration 15: Select
Paste to Complete Copying ...
A copy
of the Territory Sales Drilldown report appears 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:
AdHocSort_Territory Sales Drilldown.rdl
NOTE: Be sure to include the .rdl extension in the file name.
The renamed
copy of the Territory Sales Drilldown sample report appears as depicted
in Illustration 16.
Illustration 16: The New Report, AdHocSort_Territory
Sales Drilldown.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 RS016.
AdHocSort_Territory Sales Drilldown.rdl appears in the Reports folder,
within the RS016
project tree in the Solution Explorer, as shown in Illustration 17.
Illustration 17: 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 AdventureWorks information consumers.
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