SSRS Reporting Services | Charts exercise | Chart of Animation Films Box Office Takings

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Software ==> SSRS Reporting Services  (99 exercises)
Version ==> SSRS 2016 and later
Topic ==> Charts  (6 exercises)
Level ==> Average difficulty
Course ==> Reporting Services
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Create a report called Mmmm Donuts with a data source which connects to the Movies database.

Add a dataset which returns the Title and BoxOfficeDollars for Animation films released in 2007.

Dataset

You'll need to apply filters to the GenreID and ReleaseDate fields.  The GenreID for animation films is 11.

 

Create a Doughnut chart to display the results in the dataset then close and save the report.

Final chart

You'll need to create an expression to display data labels like the ones shown here.

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