Chapter 4. Report
Manager
Report Manager is a browser-based tool used to
access and manage Reporting Services objects over the Web. You
launch Report Manager by entering the Report Manager URL into the
browser address bar. By default, the URL is:
/reports">http://<Server
Name
>/
reports
.
You can change the Report Manager URL in the
Report Manager Virtual Directory
tab of Reporting Services Configuration Manager.
You can access Report Manager on your local
machine using the URL: http://localhost/reports.
The following figure shows the Report Manager
Home
folder page (simply called
Home
Page in
subsequent
references) after the
AdventureWorks
sample reports are published
(which you did in the
preceding
section).
Report Manager lets you view reports, manage
reports, manage the hierarchy of reports, configure role-based
security, subscribe to reports, manage report subscriptions, create
schedules, configure site properties, create report models, create
shared data sources, and launch Report Buildera report design tool
that lets users design and deploy reports over the Web. Report
Builder is discussed later in this book.
Report Manager organizes Report Services objects
into a folder hierarchy. The link for each object has an icon
next
to it identifying the object type. For example, the
AdventureWorks Sample Reports
link is a Folder
that contains other Report Services objects. A complete list of
object link types are: Report, Report model, Linked report, Folder,
Subscription, Data-driven subscription, Resource, Shared data
source, and Property page. Position the mouse pointer over an icon
to display a tooltip describing the object link type.
Click the
AdventureWorks Sample Reports
link to display
the contents of the folder. The contents are two shared data
sources (
AdventureWorks
and
AdventureWorksAS
) and seven
reports as shown in the following figure.
Click on a report to render and view it and to
access report management options. For example, click on the Product
Line Sales sample report to display the report in the following
figure.
In addition to the
View
tab which displays the report, notice the
Properties, History
, and
Subscriptions
tabs used to manage
different aspects of the report. These three tabs are discussed in
the Report Builder section later in this book.
Report Manager can create data sources and
report models as mentioned in the Key Concepts section at the
beginning of this book. Creating these items is described as part
of the example in the Report Builder section of this book.
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