![]() This will download a VSIX package (Visual Studio extension)Ĭlick on the VSIX package to being the installation process. Choose the Microsoft Reporting Services Projects.Ĭhoose to Download the package. This is the component that will allow us to build and edit Report Definition Language (RDL) files that describe SSRS reports.īrowse to the Visual Studio Marketplace and search for Reports. The next part we need is a Visual Studio extension found on the Visual Studio Marketplace called Microsoft Reporting Services Projects. Installing Microsoft Reporting Services Projects ![]() You will be presented with the ability to create a project, at this point, you can shut down Visual Studio because we need to load some additional components. The installation process will take a few minutes, and eventually present you with a choice of color themes. You will get prompted about workloads, just click continue. To create reports, you won’t need to select any Workloads (unless you want to). You may be prompted that the program will make changes to your machine. When it is finished downloading, double-click to run the file. The process will download an executable to your local machine called “ vs_community_xxxx.exe“. Go to the Visual Studio Community web page and click Download Visual Studio. Since many folks tasked with Report Writing likely aren’t using Visual Studio for anything else, I will walk through installing the community edition but the other edition setups will be similar. (maybe some folks will disagree with me?) Designing reports is very similar (or even easier) to creating canvas Power Apps. If you are not a developer, don’t get stressed out about installing/using Visual Studio. If you already have Visual Studio 2019 installed (Community, Professional or Enterprise Edition) you can skip ahead to Microsoft Report Services Projects installation steps further below. *If you are building model-driven Power Apps and NOT using Dynamics 365, don’t get hung up on the name, you can create SSRS reports pointing to a Dataverse that you can launch from non-Dynamics 365 model-driven Power Apps. Dynamics 365, version 9.0 Report Authoring Extension*.Microsoft Reporting Services Projects Visual Studio Extension.Visual Studio 2019 (The free community edition will work perfectly well).SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) is a viable option as it is included as a feature of Dataverse and provides a lot of flexibility and options in creating reports. Power BI (especially paginated reports) is an option but requires some very expensive licensing and also requires additional integration steps into model-driven apps. Microsoft Word templates can provide some of this functionality, but has issues with pulling multiple tables, sorting and layout. The ability to generate formatted, printable documents with information from Dataverse is still a very important business requirement. Walker’s SSRS REPORTS FOR CDS & D365 online course. WANT SSRS REPORTS TRAINING? Check out Megan V. Microsoft has finally updated the tools that can run on the latest versions of Visual Studio (2019) so here is an all-new, all-fresh version of how to install the tools you need to create SQL Server Reporting Services Reports that will run on model-driven Power Apps and Dynamics 365 (Customer Engagement Apps).Īs a bonus, at the end of this post we will create a simple report and upload it to a model-driven Power App. ![]() The post was likely popular because there were different components in the setup process and Microsoft never did a great job explaining all the pieces and steps.Īnother challenge installing the tools was that it required SQL Server Data Tools 2015, even after there were newer versions, and many started the process assuming the latest version would work (it didn’t). Each challenge is also followed by a solution video where I'll show you how I completed each objective step by step.Despite all the cool stuff you can do with the Power Platform, one of my most popular blog posts is Set Up Your Workstation to Create SQL Server Reporting Services Reports for Dynamics 365. You should complete these on your own and I'll always encourage you to complete each challenge within the allotted amount of time. During the challenge I'll lay out some objectives such as you see here. I recommend that you go to View, Split, so that you can split the screen and see the instructions at the bottom of the window and work in the document in the window above. When you open the challenge file, you'll see the document you'll be working in is on the first few pages of the document and the instructions will be on the last page or two. There is also a solution file which in this case is 02_10 solution that you can use to compare your final document with the one that I created based on the tasks in the challenge. This course includes challenge exercises which are included in each chapter's folders such as Chapter Two here. ![]()
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