In addition to entire reports, Report Builder allows you to publish parts of a report. Components that are eligible to become a report part include:
Charts
Gauges
Images (and embedded images)
Maps
Parameters
Rectangles
Tables
Matrices
Lists
By creating report parts, users can integrate these into their own reports to create SSRS reports that have the design of a dashboard.
We will reuse the report created in this chapter How to design reports manually recipe. It included a chart that we will publish as a part and then import into a second report. Be sure you have created this report and have it available to use in this recipe.
In Report Builder, open
Report 04-02.rdl
.In the View tab, place a check beside Properties.
Click on Chart within the report to highlight the Chart1 control.
In the properties on the right, find the Name property.
Rename it from
Chart1
toTotalSalesByYearPieChart
.On the File menu, click on Publish Report Parts as shown...