Viewing a Report

The third phase of the report life cycle concerns user accessing of reports. For a native-mode report server, you use Report Manager to find and view reports. You use a SharePoint Web application to find and view reports managed by a SharePoint integrated-mode report server. While the user interface depends on the report server mode, the same functionality is available in either mode, as you learn in this section.

Opening a Report

You use Report Manager not only to manage report server content, but also to view reports. You navigate through a list of reports and click the report link to view the report.

In this procedure, you open a report listed in Report Manager.

Open a report on a native-mode report server

  1. In Report Manager, click ...

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