Lesson 62: Build reports using Report Builder in SSRS

How to build reports in SSRS using Report builder

Firstly open report builder from report manager URL or from the local system.
Next when you open the report builder a dialog box appears where you can directly select a wizard to directly create a table, matrix, chart and Map.
If you want to directly create a report from scratch then you can choose blank report.

You can connect to the report server using connect option at the bottom of the wizard.

Once you get connect to the report server,you can use the files deployed to the report server.
You can directly create a data source in the report builder or you can use the data source present in the report server. As shown below you should select shared datasource and click on browse and connect to the server.

If you want to make changes to the existing report in the server and redeploy it again you need to first open the report by connecting to the server. In the file menu(2016 server) or ribbon(2014 server version) on the top left, Select open from servers and click on the report and then open it.

Once you make the changes click on the save or Ctrl+S it will be saved to the report server.
If you want to deploy the created dataset then you can choose Publish report parts from the file menu

Now choose second the option review and modify report parts before publishing

Next select created datasets using browse,select the folder in report server where you want to deploy and click on publish.

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