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Figure 16-4.
The SSRS web service and Report Manager user interfaces
To provide users with the ability to view reports directly from the web service, Microsoft created a Report
Viewer ASP.NET web page that launches when you click a report hyperlink listed on the web service's website.
Whenever you launch a report using the Report Manager web application, the report displays this same ASP.NET
page, but this time it is embedded within the Report Manager's web pages. For example, when you create a report
action in an SSAS cube, as we did in Chapter
12
, the report action must be configured to point to the web services
and not the Report Manager web application.
When an end user clicks a report action, they will see an SSRS report displayed from the web service
that looks similar to the one shown in the upper half of Figure
16-5
, rather than the report in the lower half of
Figure
16-5
(which is embedded into the Report Manager website). The difference is subtle, but if end users or
other developers are not told about it, they can get confused as to why the reports appear different, depending
on how they are accessed.
