Summary

Report items are the presentation elements within SSRS.

Data regions function as a repetitive display of rows, groups of rows, or columns from a data set associated with a region. Data regions include Table, Matix, Chart, and List. Data regions cannot be included in page headers or page footers.

Other report items are used for display purposes and are commonly called independent report items. These items include Line, Rectangle, Textbox, and Image.

Data regions and independent report items support navigation; please see Chapter 14 for more details.

Containers can include other reporting items. Items placed in a container become the container's children and the container becomes the parent. Table, Matrix, List, Rectangle, Report Body, Page Header, and Page Footer are containers.

In the following chapter, you will build on this knowledge by learning how to group , sort , and aggregate data within a given scope of a data region. By learning how to use report items and group data effectively, you will be able to create advanced reports in no time.