Chapter 6. Planning your report design

Before you read this chapter, you should have Reporting Services installed and have a general understanding of how to create a basic report. If you are still fairly new to Reporting Services report development, you might not fully understand how to implement some of the concepts that we discuss in this chapter, but that should not deter you from skimming through it. The purpose of this chapter is to help you think about how to prepare for the report development process. Knowing who will view reports and how they want or need to interact with reports has an impact on how you should design those reports.

Reporting Services provides a lot of flexibility in report design, which can be overwhelming at first. You ...

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