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 - RS020 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 - RS020 dialog, navigate to the location
of the sample reports in your own environment.
An example of the Add
Existing Item - RS020 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 - RS020 dialog, navigate to the RS020 folder we created
earlier, when we added the new RS020 project.
7.
Right-click somewhere in the
white space inside the RS020 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:
SWITCH_CondFormat.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, SWITCH_CondFormat.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 RS020.
SWITCH_CondFormat.rdl
appears in the
Reports folder, within the RS020 project tree in the Solution Explorer,
as shown in Illustration 11.
Illustration 11: The New Report Appears
in Solution Explorer – Report Folder
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