In each view, you can display multiple windows to help you design or view a rendered report. Report Designer supports two views: Design to define the report data and report layout, and Preview to display a rendered view of the report. After you create a report with the wizard, you can change the report data and the report designer by using Report Designer in the Report Server project. In the wizard, you can create a report by following instructions on each page to create a connection string to a data source, set data source credentials, design a query, add a table or matrix data region, specify report data and groups, pick a font and color style, publish the report to a report server, and preview the report locally. When you select a Report Server Wizard Project, a report server project is automatically created, and the Report Wizard opens.
To open this dialog box, on the Project menu, click Properties. Use the Project Property Pages dialog box to view the current property values. These properties include the URL for the report server and the folder names for reports and shared data sources. For more information, see Add a New or Existing Report to a Report Project (SSRS).Report Server project properties apply to all reports and all shared data sources in a SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) project. A Report Server Project is a Business Intelligence Projects template installed by Visual Studio that is available from the New Project dialog box. When you select a Report Server Project, Report Designer opens.
When you install Reporting Services, the following project templates are made available in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT): For more information, see Deployment and Version Support in SQL Server Data Tools (SSRS). To create multiple sets of project properties for deployment variations such as enterprise test and production report servers, use the Configuration Manager.
You can add multiple projects to a single solution. When you create a project for the first time, a solution is also created as a container for the project. Every file in the report project is published to the report server when the project is deployed. Solutions and ProjectsĪ report project acts as a container for report definitions and resources. To get started designing reports, see Design Reports with Report Designer (SSRS). This topic describes SQL Server Data Tools solutions, projects, project templates, and configurations used for Reporting Services, and the views, menus, toolbars, and shortcuts that you can use in Report Designer. SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is not included with SQL Server. SSDT features the Report Designer authoring environment, where you can open, modify, preview, save, and deploy Reporting Services paginated report definitions, shared data sources, shared datasets, and report parts. SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) is a Microsoft Visual Studio environment for creating business intelligence solutions.