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:Mon 11 March 2019
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
485 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

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Sample customer feedback

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

Elloise Morley (Best Food Logistics (formerly Bidvest Logistics))

"Good overall experience! Thorough course materials and excellent coverage of theoretical frameworks and practical exercises. Plenty of time dedicated to individual queries. The course was well paced and balanced between basic and more complex functions. I would like to thank the trainer for helping me with my specific queries."

Anthony Dodwell (JoJo Maman Bébé)

"Good number of students. Flexible trainer. Good lunches. Impressed by web tutorials, blogs, competitive prices"

Alan Nash (Kent County Council)

"Great course, really useful. Excellent presentation and good resources."

Richard Baines (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)

"The trainer was very knowledgeable and entertaining."

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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.

Scheduled Report Builder training dates

Here are the Report Builder courses we have scheduled for the next 3 months:

Dates	Days	Venue	Price	Booking
Mon/Tue 11-12 March 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Thu/Fri 04-05 April 2019	2	London	£850	Book places
Thu/Fri 02-03 May 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Wed/Thu 19-20 June 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Tue/Wed 06-07 August 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Thu/Fri 26-27 September 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Thu/Fri 31st Oct/1st November 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places
Thu/Fri 28-29 November 2019	2	Manchester	£695	Book places

Date(s)	Venue
11/03	Manchester
04/04	London
02/05	Manchester
19/06	Manchester
06/08	Manchester
26/09	Manchester
31/10	Manchester
28/11	Manchester

All prices exclude VAT. If you can't see the dates you want, ask us about running onsite Report Builder training at your offices (we'll even provide and set up the computers).