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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
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Preface

Customizing the look-and-feel of the Web Portal


One of the major issues we had with the Report Manager that was available with the previous Reporting Services versions is customizing the appearance of the Report Manager aligning with organization's brand (or theme). Since the portal, whether it is the Report Manager or the Web Portal, is supposed to be opened for business users for viewing reports and performing business user level actions, the custom branding is highly demanding and important. Everyone requested it, everyone insisted on it, and it has been answered by Microsoft with Reporting Services 2016.

With the latest version of Reporting Services, we can customize the portal with our own name, logo, and colors. Let's see how easily it can be done with this recipe.

Getting ready

Generally, theming is done with complex CSSs that are not much easier to implement. We do not need to worry about CSSs because the custom branding of Reporting Services is done by using packages.

The package represents...