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SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook

By : Dinesh Priyankara, Robert Cain
Book Image

SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook

By: Dinesh Priyankara, Robert Cain

Overview of this book

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services comes with many new features. It offers different types of reporting such as Production, Ad-hoc, Dashboard, Mash-up, and Analytical. SQL Server 2016 also has a surfeit of new features including Mobile Reporting, and Power BI integration. This book contains recipes that explore the new and advanced features added to SQL Server 2016. The first few chapters cover recipes on configuring components and how to explore these new features. You’ll learn to build your own reporting solution with data tools and report builder, along with learning techniques to create visually appealing reports. This book also has recipes for enhanced mobile reporting solutions, accessing these solutions effectively, and delivering interactive business intelligence solutions. Towards the end of the book, you’ll get to grips with running reporting services in SharePoint integrated mode and be able to administer, monitor, and secure your reporting solution. This book covers about the new offerings of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services in comprehensive detail and uses examples of real-world problem-solving business scenarios.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.Packtpub.com
Preface

Configuring navigators


In the Mobile Report Publisher, navigators act as filters to other elements on the report. They may actually display information, as in the case of the Time navigator, or they may be just a selection box for picking an item.

These navigators are then tied to the datasets used in the report. When a navigator is sourced from a dataset, all other report elements that use the same dataset are automatically filtered. When a navigator is sourced from its own dataset, it must be tied to other datasets to filter them.

In this recipe, we'll see examples of both and create a brand new report.

Getting ready

Many of the features we'll use in this new report we've already used, so we'll be as brief as possible when covering those steps. If you need a refresher, refer back to previous sections in this chapter, such as How to create a mobile report, Setting up data sources, and How to use datasets for mobile reporting recipes.

We'll also need one new dataset. Use Report Builder to generate...