Showing posts with label staff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label staff. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2012

Importing RDL from Server to VS

One of my staff members created a report and published it to the server. The
original Visual Studio project has been lost. Is there a way to import the
report definition from the server into Visual Studio for editing?
I realize that we could hand edit the RDL. I just want to try and avoid this.David,
I've found myself in the same situation in the past couple days.
Here's what I did (it may not be the best, most efficient way, but it
worked).
In Report Manager, click Edit on the Properties>General tab for the
given report. You should get a File Download window; select Save and
put the rdl in the folder where you want it.
In VS, create a new report project. Open Solution Explorer and right
click Reports. Select Add>Add new item then pick your rdl. You should
then be able to open it in Designer.
HTH
toolman
David wrote:
> One of my staff members created a report and published it to the server. The
> original Visual Studio project has been lost. Is there a way to import the
> report definition from the server into Visual Studio for editing?
> I realize that we could hand edit the RDL. I just want to try and avoid this.