Business Intelligence training - Report Builder

Report Builder Training

Report Builder training course

£695 + VAT for most venues (£850 + VAT for London)

2 days

Report Builder is almost identical to Reporting Services (the difference is that Report Builder allows you to create reports without having to download or learn Visual Studio). If you're not sure of the differences, speak to us and we can talk you through which application you should be using (or have a look here).

This two-day course explains how to create reports in Report Builder 2016 (this is pretty much identical to Report Builder 3, so if you're using the older version you can still attend). During the course you'll learn how to create tables, lists and matrices, format reports so that they look beautiful and add fancy devices like indicators and gauges.

Course details

Locations:Manchester, London
Next course:Tue 26 June 2018
Time:09.30-16.30

SCHEDULED DATES Course Contents - PDF

Course Contents

Data sources and datasets

Data sources
Datasets
Using query designer

Tables

Creating tables
Interactive sorting
Floating headers

Grouping

Inserting groups
Group headers/footers
Displaying group totals
Expanding and collapsing

Expressions

The expression builder
The ReportItems collection
Built-in fields
Conditional formatting expressions

Page set-up

Page headers and footers
Page names and numbers

Exporting reports

The various report formats
Using RenderFormat.Name

Parameters

Creating parameters
Filtering using parameters
Drop list parameters
Coping with empty tables

Matrices

Row and column groups
Sorting and filtering matrices
Creating subtotals

Charts

Creating charts
The parts of a chart
Formatting charts

Basic reports

Text boxes and images
Selecting report items
Formatting parts of a report

Covered if time allows If time

Miniature charts

Creating sparklines
Creating data bars

Graphical indicators

Creating and customising indicators
Linear and radial gauges

Lists

Page-per-record lists
Dashboard lists
Other list ideas

Covered if time allows If time

Subreports

Creating a child report
Creating the main report
Linking the two reports

Covered if time allows If time

Drill-through reports

Parent and child reports
Creating actions
Passing values to a child report

The SSRS web portal

Browsing to the web portal
Viewing reports
Managing reports

Covered if time allows If time

KPIs and mobile reports

Creating a KPI
Installing mobile report publisher
Creating a mobile report

Why Choose Us?

No more than 6 people per class
Proper restaurant lunch included
554 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

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Sample customer feedback

"Course manual looks really detailed and a great reference. Also glad that it includes some things that weren't necessarily covered in the course eg subscriptions. Excellent course overall. The trainer was really helpful and engaging. Used a lot of Wise Owl material online which is brilliant."

Matt Curley (NHS Digital)

"I did very much enjoy the course. The pace was good and there was plenty of opportunity to ask questions. I was slightly worried beforehand that I may be in the minority and there would be many things that I wouldn’t understand, but the group meant that this wasn’t a problem. I now need to have time to practice what I’ve learnt! Lunch in a restaurant was good too, it made a good break in the day to clear the mind for the afternoon session. Many thanks for all your help. I will certainly bear you in mind for any further training we may need. "

Ginny Lefebvre (Aiglon College)

"Will be back - probably for SQL."

Chris Bell (BSI Group)

"Very knowledgeable trainer. Patient and went at our speed."

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"Really great course - vvv helpful!"

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There are no particular pre-requisites for this course, although a passing knowledge of how relational databases are formed will help. In particular, no knowledge of SQL is needed.