SSRS Reporting Services | Customising reports exercise | Customise the parameters bar for a report

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Software ==> SSRS Reporting Services  (99 exercises)
Version ==> SSRS 2012 and later
Topic ==> Customising reports  (2 exercises)
Level ==> Average difficulty
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First add the report called Vanilla from the above folder into your project (right-click on the project and choose to add an Existing Item):

Basic vanilla report

Initially the report looks a bit boring and corporate.

 

Edit the file called rsreportserver.config in the appropriate folder so that it references a style sheet called pink.

Copy the default CSS file called HtmlViewer.css, to get a new file called pink.css:

The new CSS style sheet file

You're now ready to make things pink!

Deploy the report to the report server, then see if your changes have worked:

Customised parameter bar

Much better!

Finally, please delete the reference to the CSS style sheet from your rsreportserver.config file, before it gives an unprofessional impression of Wise Owl!

You can unzip this file to see the answers to this exercise, although please remember this is for your personal use only.
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