Friday, March 9, 2012

Query designer toggle button not present

When I create a Report Server Project Using Visual Studio 2005 with SQL Server 2005 I can create a data source with no problem and the test shows it is good good.

When I next create a report and go to the query builder using that same data source and click on the query builder button I see the Query Builder screen, but there is no toggle button in the top left of the screen so I cannot go into the graphical mode to see the tables.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled both Visual Studio and SQL Server but I still have the same problem. What should I do to get the button visible on the screen?

Can anyone help?

Terry,

Are you setting this report up from a shared data source or from making a new datasource. You may want to set up a shared datasource first then make your report from the shared datasource and see if that works. It works that way for me.

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It makes no difference either way, I can have new data source or a shared data source.

I have a server and my computer both of which appear to have a nearly identical setup of Studio and SQL Server but I can perform identical steps on both and on the server I get the toggle button but on my computer I get nothing. This is what makes be think it may be a bad installation but I have reinstalled both Studio and SQL Server on my machine and I still get the same thing!

Thanks for responding though.

Terry

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Terry,

You may have already figured it out, but you may just want to use stored procedures. When we create a new report we just go through the wizard, pick our datasource, and then tell it what stored proc we want it to use. I believe the syntax is

exec rptsp_MyStoredProcedure @.MyParameter1,@.MyParameter2

Do you have a lot of experience with SQL queries and stored procs? If not maybe I can help.

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