Glossary

Ad hoc report

A report that can be developed by a user with limited technical skills and saved privately or shared with others by publishing to the Reporting Services centralized store.

Attribute

A report model object that represents a column in a table.

Authentication

The process of confirming the user’s identity through the use of a login name and password.

Authorization

The process of granting permissions to access content on the report server and to perform specific actions.

Cascading parameters

Two report parameters for which the available values list for one report parameter is based on the user’s selection of a value for the other report parameter.

Clickthrough

The feature in Reporting Services that automatically generates a drillthrough ...

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