Database Reference
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Figure 17-1.
A typical report with header, body, and footer
Microsoft's SSRS includes three basic templates called Report, Data Source, and Dataset (Figure
17-2
).
However, these basic templates do not provide a clear means of creating a custom report template. Not to worry;
as you will see, you can create a custom report template by making a new report, configuring it to your standards,
and making it available for other SSRS projects .
As we showed you in Chapter 16, you can add a new report to the project by right-clicking the SSRS Reports
folder icon in Solution Explorer and selecting Add
➤
New Item from the context menu. In our example, when the
Add New Item dialog window appears, we select the Report item, name the new report PubsBIReportTemplate,
and click Add to create the report (Figure
17-2
).
