Chapter 18Implementing a Mobile Report with Design-First Development

The purpose of the exercise in this chapter is to introduce mobile report design from start to finish. Using a very simple mobile report scenario and sample sales data, we step through a simplified example exercising the design-first report development pattern.

DESIGN-FIRST MOBILE REPORT DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE

To compete all of the steps for this exercise, you need the following:

  • SQL Server 2016
  • Native mode report server
  • Samples and exercise projects used in earlier chapters
  • Mobile Report Publisher
  • Optionally, a mobile device (tablet or phone) with the Power BI mobile app installed

Create a new mobile report from the Web Portal by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to your Reporting Services Web Portal.

    If your report server was installed with default settings, the address is http://myreportserver/Reports (where myreportserver is the name of your report server).

  2. Click the Browse icon in the toolbar to show the contents of the Home folder rather than your Favorites.
  3. Use the “+New” (or “+”) menu to add a folder named Sales Reports.
  4. Navigate to the Sales Reports folder.
  5. Use the “+New” menu to select Mobile Report (Figure 18.1).

    Figure 18.1 Web Portal ...

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