Publish SSRS by Octopus - powershell

Question

I'm building the set up to deploy my SSRS reports through Octopus Deploy, I found out one Octopus Library and I'm working on it, but I've had some issues:
1º ---- Message error: (The path is alright, but it keeps with the same warning)
WARNING: Unable to find datasource SalesDrivers in /Sales Drivers/Data Sources
2º ---- The method doesn't exist
Method invocation failed because [Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewWebserviceProxy.AutogeneratedTypes.WebServiceProxy3er_ReportService2005_asmx_wsdl.ReportingService2005] doesn't contain a method named 'LoadReportDefinition'.
The powershell function from the template\library that is throwing the error can been seen below:
#region Update-ReportParamters()
Function Update-ReportParameters($ReportFile)
{
# declare local variables
$ReportParameters = #();
# necessary so that when attempting to use the report execution service, it doesn't puke on you when it can't find the data source
$ReportData = (Remove-SharedReferences -ReportFile $ReportFile)
# get just the report name
$ReportName = $ReportFile.SubString($ReportFile.LastIndexOf("\") + 1)
$ReportName = $ReportName.SubString(0, $ReportName.IndexOf("."))
# create warnings object
$ReportExecutionWarnings = $null
# load the report definition
Write-Host "*********************************************"
#Write-Host $ReportData
#(Remove-SharedReferences -ReportFile $ReportFile)
#Write-Host $ReportExecutionWarnings
$ExecutionInfo = $ReportExecutionProxy.LoadReportDefinition($ReportData, [ref] $ReportExecutionWarnings);
# loop through the report execution parameters
foreach($Parameter in $ExecutionInfo.Parameters)
{
# create new item parameter object
$ItemParameter = New-Object "$ReportServerProxyNamespace.ItemParameter";
# fill in the properties except valid values, that one needs special processing
Copy-ObjectProperties -SourceObject $Parameter -TargetObject $ItemParameter;
# fill in the valid values
$ItemParameter.ValidValues = Convert-ValidValues -SourceValidValues $Parameter.ValidValues;
# add to list
$ReportParameters += $ItemParameter;
}
# force the parameters to update
Write-Host "Updating report parameters for $ReportFolder/$ReportName"
if ($IsReportService2005) {
$ReportServerProxy.SetReportParameters("$ReportFolder/$ReportName", $ReportParameters);
}
elseif ($IsReportService2010) {
$ReportServerProxy.SetItemParameters("$ReportFolder/$ReportName", $ReportParameters);
}
else { Write-Warning 'Report Service Unknown in Update-ReportParameters method. Use ReportService2005 or ReportService2010.' }
}
Anyone knows how I could sort it out?

Answer 1

I have solved a similar problem but took a slightly different approach. Rather than using powershell and octopus directly I used the useful open source tool RSBuild to deploy the reports. It is pretty easy to bundle up the rsbuild.exe executable (it is tiny) and a deploy.config along with your reports inside the octopus package. Then you can use octopus's substitution feature to rewrite the config file and Powershell function to execute the executable. This also has the advantage that you can deploy easily without octopus, the config for data sources and reports is declarative in XML rather than procedural in Powershell and the smarts of your scripted deployment can live alongside your reports rather than buried in Octopus.
So my config looks a bit like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Settings>
<Globals>
<Global Name="CollapsedHeight">0.5in</Global>
</Globals>
<ReportServers>
<ReportServer Name="RS1" Protocol="http" Host="${ReportServer}" Path="${ReportServerPath}" Timeout="30" />
</ReportServers>
<DataSources>
<DataSource Name="Source1" Publish="true" Overwrite="true" TargetFolder="Data Sources" ReportServer="RS1">
<ConnectionString>data source=${ReportServer};initial catalog=${DatabaseName}</ConnectionString>
<CredentialRetrieval>Store</CredentialRetrieval>
<WindowsCredentials>False</WindowsCredentials>
<UserName>${RepotrUser}</UserName>
<Password>${ReportsPassword}</Password>
</DataSource>
</DataSources>
<Reports>
<ReportGroup Name="Details" DataSourceName="Source1" TargetFolder="Reports"
ReportServer="RS1" CacheTime="10080">
<Report Name="BusinessReportABC">
<FilePath>reports\BusinessReportABC.rdl</FilePath>
</Report>
<!--More reports here-->
</ReportGroup>
</Reports>
</Settings>
My deployed octopacked artefacts contain RSBuild.Core.dll, RSBuild.exe, deploy.config and the reports files
Then I simply call the executable using powershell:
PS> rsbuild deploy.config