Working with published report parts

In addition to entire reports, Report Builder allows you to publish parts of a report. Components that are eligible to become a report part include:

  • Charts
  • Gauges
  • Images (and embedded images)
  • Maps
  • Parameters
  • Rectangles
  • Tables
  • Matrices
  • Lists

By creating report parts, users can integrate these into their own reports to create SSRS reports that have the design of a dashboard.

Getting ready

We will reuse the report created in this chapter How to design reports manually recipe. It included a chart that we will publish as a part and then import into a second report. Be sure you have created this report and have it available to use in this recipe.

How to do it...

  1. In Report Builder, open Report 04-02.rdl.
  2. In the View tab, place a ...

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