I have a report that I created in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008.
I now want to create a new report, that is very similar that the one I already created.
How do I do that without writing the report from scratch? Can I just copy the .rdl to a new name? How will Visual Studio "pick that up"?
Thanks!
Just one last comment on Amarundo's callout:
"Diego, that's the thing. I can right click the report (under Solution Explorer) and select copy, but can't find where to past. Or if I copy the .rdl file, I don't know how to add that to my project."
If you right-click on a report item in the Solutions Explorer, the Copy option is available. However, the Paste option never becomes visible, even when you have a report item in your clipboard. However, the object is there, and you can paste it by pressing ctrl+v.
I think it was just a UI miss on Microsoft's part.
I confess that I did not know the answer to this question, so I tried. I copied and renamed one of my reports, added it to my project, uploaded to SSRS and ran it.
Seems to be working fine, so I guess the answer is yes
[In recent versions of Visual Studio, you can simply copy and paste in the solution explorer window and rename the file there. This answer will work with older versions of VS.]
The easiest way I've found to do this:
In BIDS, after creating the original report, right click on the project or reports folder in the Solution Explorer pane and select Add -> Existing Item...
In the resulting dialog, copy and paste your first report, which will give you something similar to "Report1 Copy.rdl"
Rename the copied file to your new report name.
Select the new file again, so that this name is selected in the File name text box.
Click the "Add" button.
Yes, there is no problem with adding multiple copies of identical .rdl's. There are no unique identifiers in the .rdl file.
Easiest way is copy the required .rdl file from Reports Folder (which is in the Solution Explorer Window -> Project Dropdown List) and then right click your project name (which is on the top of the same window). Select the paste option and your project will be duplicated with the name of Copy of (copied .rdl file name).
I had been copying reports for a while. One of the copies started to have a problem with a sub-report not being able to show when the report was run. The sub-report ran fine by it's self. After looking at the XML code in the RDL, I found that next to the last line was a ReportID GUID. Most of my reports shared the same GUID, including this report and it's sub-report. After getting a fresh GUID for the sub-report the problem was cleared up.
The only process that I could find to generate a new GUID was to delete all Data Sources in the report. Then delete the ReportID line in the XML. Then re-add a Data Source, which caused the VS2010 to crash. Once VS2010 recovered I was able to re-add the Data Source, which replaced the ReportID line in the XML with a new GUID.
I was able to create a new report in VS and instead of adding a new item (.rdl) in solution explorer I added an existing item, the .rdl from the report I wanted to copy. I changed the name of the .rdl and changed the SP in the dataset and it worked like a charm.
Yes. Right click your report ending with .rdl, select copy, and then select your folder and paste with ctrl-V. You can see as Copy of yourReport
Copy the RDL file from Prod source code to the Report server
Find the REPORTS URL by opening Reporting Service Config. Manager from Start btn
Open the Report Mgr URL option from left pane – goto to the URL listed in there
Find the folder the Rpt belongs in based on you organization method, and open that folder
Click Upload File at the top, browse to the copied file – Replace/Overwrite existing
Find Report in the report list, click its dropdown, choose Manage
Choose Datasources from the left pane
Choose a Datasource that the report will use from this list
Click Apply, and double click to run the report
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I have a main report which calls a sub report which calls another sub report.
I have all 3 in a dir called dash2 in report studio.
When I use report studios deployment to *JasperReports Server * on the main report, it also seems to deploy the first sub report (but not the sub sub report). Well, If I right click on the report and select edit, then Controls and Resources, it lists the sub report.
If i manually deploy all 3 reports one by one, I see all three in the report folder in Jaspersoft Studio. However, if I try to run the main report, I get:
Error filling report
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: Resource not found at : dash2/dash-kpi.jasper
So its looking for the sub report in dash2. So I created a dir called dash2 under the main report folder, and copied the sub reports into it. Same error. So I manually reproduced the same structure as in report studio -no joy. It can never find the sub report.
In the main report, it has this entry:
<subreportExpression><![CDATA["dash2/dash-kpi.jasper"]]></subreportExpression>
Any ideas how to fix?
It works fine in report studio.
Edit: tried removing the "dash2/" from in front of the resource name. didn't help.
Edit2: tried chaing all occurunces of dash2/xxx.jasper to repo:xxx.jrxml. This breaks jasper studio in that:
the reports no longer work in studio
when you upload the main report, it no longer recognises the dependent sub reports and doesn't upload them.
I tried manually deploying all reports, but there is no way to link a main report with an existing sub report in jasper server. The only option they offer is to edit the main report, and manually upload the jrxml files as resources. I tried this, but didn't help, still cant find them:
Repository file resource /reports/dashboard_files/dash_kpi.jrmxl could not be loaded
Interestingly, its using a dir called dashboard_files which doesnt exist. There is no reference to this dir in any of the reports jrxml files.
After much pain, I found a solution. It seems that jasper studio is not really good with nested sub reports. Here is a solution at a high level, which applies to server 5.6 and Studio 5.6 at least:
Start off with the reports with sub reports defined as "xxx.jasper" in studio.
Deploy the main report to jasper server. It will ask you if you want to deploy the sub reports (but not their sub reports). However, it does not do it right, and we have to fix it.
Now connect to the server from studio (aka repository explorer)
Your report will be under SErvers->your server->Reports->reportname->Main.jrxml. Right click on it and select properties. Select Resource Editor Tab.
copy the Parent Folder path. e.g. /reports/myreport_files
Now go back to studio. Edit every place in all your reports and sub reports where you have "xxx.jasper" and replace them with "repo:/reports/myreport_files/xxx.jrxml"
save everything
Deploy the main report again.
in Jasper Server, find the report, right click on it and select EDIT
Click on "Controls and Resources".
Delete all the resources
Now Add back each sub report by uploading by hand each jrxml file. Make sure you give it the same name and ID ans the file, e.g. my_sub_report.jrxml
pray it works.
NOTE 1: if you have any "-" in your subreport names, they will be converted to "", and it wont find them. rename all your subreports with "-" to use "" insead, remove and re-deploy.
NOTE 2: Now your reports wont work in studio. Nice one Jasper. You can try using parameters, e.g:
$P{IsOnServer} ? "repo:/reports/myreport_files/my_sub.jrxml" : "my_su.jasper"
And create the parameters defaulting to true, but I could not get this to work.
Main credit to these guys:
http://notsomany.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/subreports-within-ireport-jasper-reports-server/
Linking subreports in iReport so they also work in Jasper server
I have overcame this problem by simply NOT using the onServer parameter.
Should you put just the file name, the Studio can grab this file and deploy it automatically.
Strangely enough, this works on the server as well.
I Had report stateLow.rdl in my project solutions. I need to add one more report to solution named as stateHigh.rdl. The second report structure looks like stateLow.rdl with different datasets. Do I need to develop the structure from scratch or I can use existing report?
What I do is just make a copy of the report you want to clone (stateLow.rdl) using Windows Explorer or whatever and rename it to the new name (stateHigh.rdl). Then in Visual Studio, right-click the Reports folder in the Solution Explorer, select Add -> Existing item... and add the new report then edit it with my changes.
As the title says, somehow the entity designer disappeared from my installation of Visual Studio 2010.
When trying to open an .edmx file, it only opens it in the XML editor. When i choose "Open With...", the Entity designer doesn't show up in the list.
It has worked before, and i don't know of anything i could have done to remove it from the list. Does anyone know how i can re-add it? Thanks!
First thing to check is, is this a problem with your project or with your VS installation.
Try creating a new project and see if the entity designer is in the list
If it is you have two options
Move your files to the new project
Try to repair your project file
The way it works is that there are a set og Guids in the project file that control what is available in that project. So you can open the project files in notepad, find out which is missing and then move them over.
How can I ask TFS to show me only modified files (new and edited files) in a workspace (or in a folder) since a given date.
Is it possible? or do I have to go myself through all the history and build my own "modification tree".
Open the Source Control Explorer in Visual studio (View->Other Windows->Source Control Explorer), and select the top folder for your project. Then right-click and view history.
This will show all check-ins for all code in this folder ordered by date. Then select two dates from the list of check-ins, right click and choose "Compare". For example if you wanted to see all of the code changed in the past month click the most recent checkin and the checkin from a month ago.
This will show all of the code changed since those two points in time. You can also choose just the past date to compare against your current code. This works in VS2015 which is what I'm using right now. Good Luck.
Use the command line
tf history -noprompt -server:http://tfsserver:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection $/TeamProjectName/path
-version:D2006-12-01T01:01:01Z~D2006-12-13T20:00:00Z -recursive
-format:detailed -login:DOMAIN\name,password"
change the dates in the version flag to what you need and it should get you what you want.
If you open the menu item File->Source Control->Find In Source Control->Changesets... (you must be in Source Control Explorer for this to be available). This will open the Find Changesets dialog. You can then search for change sets by date on a given source folder.
The down side is that you then have to click the details button on each change set to see which files were changed (Double Clicking closes the dialog).
If you are searching for changes this may be the better way. It will allow more interactive searching. If you are trying to print out a report for others to read (or for Change Documentation) then the command line way shown by Alex is better.
Open the Source Control Explorer in VS10 (View->TeamExplorer->Source Control Explorer) and right click to project and click Compare. You can see different options for view. I normally use "Show items that are different" in order to see difference between local and server.
I have a project containing at least one DLL along with the executable output. I have added a Deployment Project to this solution, which asked me for a name and working directory upon creation like all projects.
I named this "MyProduc_Installer" and have been able to modify all aspects of the installation process except for changing the name of the installer itself. Throughout the install process, the user sees messages like "Welcome to the MyProduct_Installer Installer." Even in the Add/Remove Programs list, this is the application's ill conceived title.
How do I change this setting? I have tried right click/properties, as well as all the View options. I couldn't find anything in the assembly information for the executable project, or solution properties.
I have tried right-clicking on the project in the Explorer to change the properties, but here is what I see:
There is no setting here to change the project title.
If you haven't found the answer to this yet, here is the answer.
Visual Studio has 2 sets of properties for Projects -
1 which you can accesss by selecting the Project in Solution Explorer and then right clicking and selecting 'Properties'.
2nd set of properties is in the 'Properies' window which shows up below the Solution explorer. This is the same property window which is displayed for any of the Form property settings or any other control settings.
The 'Product Name' and other project properties for 'Setup' project can be found in the second property window.
Hope this helps.
AC
The easy way to get to the properties you are interested in is to use the F4 shortcut when the project is highlighted. As stated in previous posts this is a very different list to the one you get by right click and selecting properties.
If you mean a Setup project like for winforms, it's the ProductName property. In Studio, I just click on the project name in the Explorer and I get the property window typical to other projects, and it's right there. Other properties include the AddRemoveProgramsIcon, InstallAllUsers, and RemovePreviousVersions.
I happened across this post, where I was having trouble renaming the Product as well.. In regards to using Click Once Publishing.
Since updating all the old names I couldn't get the Publishing to correct itself.
It was found notepading the project file xyz.vbproj in my case and updating the <ProductName>xyz wrong name</ProductName> element that was still wrong.
It was the only place I could find to update it, since the publishing or any property window didn't expose this.