Classroom Training

Report Builder training course

Classroom training course - online version also available

£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

Possible locations:London, Manchester, Online
Next classroom course:No classroom dates
Time:09.30-16.30

SCHEDULED DATES Course Contents - PDF

Course Contents

The contents of this course are as follows:

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

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.

Why Choose Us?

No more than 5 people per class
Proper restaurant lunch included
533 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

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Sample customer feedback

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts (note that some of these reviews may be for our online courses).

"Large amount of useful content."

Morgan Howard (SCC DS (incl M2 Digital))

"The trainer was very knowledgeable and entertaining."

Vanessa Murray (NHS Digital)

"Trainer was very clear and knowledgeable."

Suzie Pittman (Mount Green Housing Association)

"Excellent content and very well presented by a very knowledgeable and personable trainer. Small groups which allowed the trainer to spend a lot of time with everyone on the course. The course manuals cover all aspects of the training and are very clear and concise. I am looking forward to my next course.A++++ "

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

"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)

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