Simple steps for developing SSRS Report
Steps to build Simple SSRS Report:
1) Create New Project with choosing Business Intelligence Projects\ReportServerProject.
2) By opening this Simple Report Project, click on Solution Explorer View. You are able to see following screen.
3) Now Right click on Shared Data Sources folder and choose Add New Data Source tab to add the Data Source for report.Write the appropriate connection string like following:
You can choose the database connection string from Edit Button displayed on above screen. Pressing Edit Button will redirect you on the following screen.
Choose the appropriate data base name and server name and if Test Connection is Succeed
then Press OK button. This will reflect to Shared Data Source connection string. It will be
automatically changed as per you selected in Connection Tab.
5)Now turns to add report to our Report Server Project. Let’s create a sample report, which can display the Employee Details like First Name, Last Name, Address, City, Region, Country, etc.For all this we need to add a report first, so for this right click on “Report” Folder in The Simple Report Project and choose “Add” Then “Add New Item” you can see the following screen:
then Press OK button. This will reflect to Shared Data Source connection string. It will be
automatically changed as per you selected in Connection Tab.
5)Now turns to add report to our Report Server Project. Let’s create a sample report, which can display the Employee Details like First Name, Last Name, Address, City, Region, Country, etc.For all this we need to add a report first, so for this right click on “Report” Folder in The Simple Report Project and choose “Add” Then “Add New Item” you can see the following screen:
Choose “Report” and give appropriate report name and click on ADD button.
6)After adding a new report into project, you will be able to see tree tabs.
a. Data – You have to provide the dataset for the report into this option. You can specify the SQL script into that.
b. Layout – This tab handle the layout of the report. You can specify the report layout in design mode. This works same as Report designers like Crystal report etc…
c. Preview – You can see the Preview of the report in this tab.
In Data tab User will need to create dataset for the report. The Dataset dropdown will have option by using this User will be able to create the dataset.
For this in DATA Region of the Report, click on Item of the Data Set Drop Down List Box. By clicking this you are redirected in following screen.
Here you have two options:
- Write SQL Queries directly by selecting Command Type=”TEXT”
- You can give Stored Procedure Name also by selecting the Command Type=” StoredProcedure”.
Press ok after applying proper queries or stored procedure depends as per requirements.
Following diagram shows the Data tab of the Report.
7)Now turns to design the Actual Report as per our needs.
We want to display the Employee Details in our report. For this we are required to put
Labels, Text Boxes that shows the actual details of the Employees from the Employee table
as we applied into the Data Region.
Labels, Text Boxes that shows the actual details of the Employees from the Employee table
as we applied into the Data Region.
Following image is showing the Layout view of the report in this we are using Table
object,which have the facilities of Header and Footer of the Rows. So we are displaying the
Column Title in Header and the actual record in Rows section of the Table.
object,which have the facilities of Header and Footer of the Rows. So we are displaying the
Column Title in Header and the actual record in Rows section of the Table.
8)The stored procedure will returns the dataset. The dataset’s column names will be displayed in Report Data Explorer. You can use datasource as dataset or stored procedure. If you used dataset,the datasets column name would be listed. Here the stored procedure passed with parameters.
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