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Set default parameter dates to start and end of month
Situation The requirement in a lot of my reports in SSRS has always been a date range rather than just the one date. The user must be allowed to select all results between two dates instead of just specifying the one day. If the second parameter (ToDate) is the same as the first (FromDate), then the range is for that p...
SSRS Use T-SQL Like with a Parameter
This must have been so obvious to everyone else that nobody bothered to write an article on it... till now. Situation I have a report that returns room bookings based on a user and given a date range. The problem is that there are a few thousand users and Microsoft's SQL Server Reporting Services interface isn't the mo...
SSRS Templates in BIDS 2008
Open a Windows Explorer and make a duplicate of the report that you want to use as a template. Rename the copy (suffix with template?) Remove objects unique to the report and leave elements for all reports. File > Save selected item as... For SSRS 2008: Save in the folder: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\...
SSRS Hide results table if empty
Update August 2011 So I don't know how many people were just saying why don't you do the following: Bring up the "Tablix Properties" of the dataset Look for the section "No Rows" Put in a value for "NoRowsMessage". This solution hides the entire Tablix which kinda defeats the purpose of having anything there. I want my...
SSRS - Lost window with datasets
Re: Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 Often happens to me and not sure why. You open the project and the window panel for the Report Data containing the parameters and datasets isn't there. I spent a bit of time enabling/disabling toolbars before I found this. Open a Report solution (or have one open alread...
Border settings not saving in SSRS
This may sound silly to some but I've written a note because I spent time googling and still didn't find an answer. My situation is that I wanted to put an expression to format the border (empty cells have a border and non-empty don't). This was so that a grid would show for empty spaces. I wasn't getting very far beca...
Room Availability Calendar in Business Intelligence Development Studio
Well I tried and I spent a few hours searching the net for a solution which displays the hours in the top columns, and undefined number of rooms in the rows. No all I was looking for was a calendar showing 1 day with the hours on the top. Working hours only as well... Ok I admit I only googled for about 1 hour before I...
SSRS Expand specific drilldown by default
I thought I'd put something here as there are lots of posts like this on forums (a lot of which seem to be copied & pasted from other sites) but they refer to SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005. This is how to do it in SQL Server 2008 and creating a report in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) or MS Report...
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