Section 5.3. Publish a Report

5.3. Publish a Report

In this section, you will publish the report that you created to the report server. Follow these steps.

1. In the Solution Explorer pane, right-click the report project (SS2005RE Report Project) and select Properties from the context menu to display the Property Pages dialog shown in the following figure.

   Figure 5-32. Report Project Property Pages

   

2. Click the Configuration Manager... button to display the Configuration Manager dialog shown in the following figure.

   Figure 5-33. Configuration Manager

   

3. Select Production from the Active solution configuration drop-down list.

4. Select Production for the Configuration drop-down list for the SS2005RE Report Project.

5. Click the Close button to return to the Property Pages dialog.

6. Select Employee List 2 from the Start Item drop-down list.

7. Enter the report server virtual directory (not the Report Manager virtual directory) for the TargetServerURL property (http://localhost/reportserver by default).

8. Click OK to close the Property Pages dialog.

9. Save the project by selecting File Save All from the main menu or by pressing the Save All toolbar button.

10. Deploy SSRE Report Project from the main menu.

You can now access the new report project and the one report it contains through Report Manager as shown in the following figure.

Figure 5-34. Report Manager: New SS2005RE Report Project Folder