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Chapter 17: Reporting for Duty, Sir! A Look At Reporting Services
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This is essentially the home page for user reports and such. Notice right away the “New!” icons next to
our data sources and models (a strong hint that our deploy actually worked — amazing!). Go ahead and
click on Report Builder.
The Report Builder relies on a small applet that will try to install on your system
the first time you navigate to the Report Builder. You must accept the installation
of the applet if you want to use the Report Builder.
On the right-hand side of the applet that comes up, you are asked to select the source of your report data.
Go ahead and select the model you just created, and click OK to get the default report template. This is a
fairly robust drag-and-drop design environment that will let you explore between the tables you made
available in your Report Model and choose columns you can then drag into your report. Also take note
of the far right of the report layout pane. This allows you to select between a few common layouts from
which to start your report.
We’re going to stick with a table report (the default as it happens), and build a relatively simple report
listing all orders that paid with some method other than a credit card.