Working with Report Manager - Learning SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 - page 203

Viewing, searching, and printing reports
Viewing reports and printing the reports are some of the major activities that
businesses do on a daily or scheduled basis. Reports are generated electronically.
During printing they must be transformed into user required specific formats.
The reports generated by the Reporting Services accommodate several different
formats both for print and for Web. Reports on demand as well as reports for which
subscription is provisioned support several print format options. For example,
a user can subscribe to a report to be sent to him/her by e-mail in a Word format
for printing and HTML format for easy browsing.
In a business environment the number of reports created can be very large and
overwhelming. Searching for reports in a large archive is a must. In addition to
report search, there must also be a tool for searching within reports for some
specific information and this is accomplished by the Find tool.
Viewing of reports is tightly bound to security as to who can and who cannot.
The following hands-on exercise enables the administrator to see reports and
other objects that he finds on a report server. The administrator needs to set up
roles to users so that their access is limited by their role. These roles also have
to comply with accessing data on the server on which the report is based.
When you open a report in Report Manager you will notice some common features
shown in the next figure of a report toolbar that aggregates many of the activities
you carry out with reports such as viewing, searching, printing, and so on.