Sunday 30 October 2011

Creating a DrillDownReport in SSRS

Creating a drill down / Tree view report in SSRs is very simple.Let us see the following steps to do so.
Step 1: Open BIDS and creatre a new Shared Data Source
Step 2: Create a Table type report as shown below (The steps for doing so has been described in Part I series).
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Step3: Next add Parent Group for Belongss To field as depicted under
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Step 4: From the Tablix Group window, let us choose [BelongsTo] from Group By DropDown and check Add Group Header checkbox, then click OK.
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At this point if we the report looks as under in the design view
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While running the report gives the below impression in the Preview tab
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Step 5: From Row groups, choose [Belongs To] Details and then choose Group Properties
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Step 6: From the Group Properties window that opens up, choose Visibility tab. Then select Hide radio button and check the Display can be toggled by this report item checkbox.Then from the drop down that will be enable,select the name of the group (which is BelongsTo1 here) then click on OK
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Step 7: Delete the [Belongs To] Details column
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Step 8: Now it's all done. Run the application and the output is as under
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