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Month: June 2009

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Maintaining State in Reporting Services 2008

Sometimes, more advanced reporting needs may require maintaining state using custom code. Recently I had to implement a rather involved report consisting of two sections: a detail section that used a recursive sum, Sum(Fields!SomeField.Value, , True), and a summary section with additional calculations which would reference some of the aggregated values in the detail section. Since Reporting Services is not Excel, you cannot reference arbitrary…

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Suppressing Auto-generation of MDX Parameter Datasets

There is an unfortunate issue with the MDX Query Designer in SSRS 2008 Report Designer and Report Builder 2.0 where changing the main dataset overwrites the parameter datasets. This is a rather annoying issue because often you need to make manual changes to the parameter datasets. However, when you make a change to the main dataset, the MDX Query Designer wipes out the manual changes…

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