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I'm trying to make a report in BIDS (2008) that will include external images. We want to use the report to proof the images & other info before we approve our flyer for printing. I've done a bit of searching, but haven't gotten the help I need yet. The path to the images will be image specific, like "\\NETWORKSERVER\ServerD\Docs\Flyer's Images\Quarterly Flyer\ImageName.png" The URL works fine when I paste it in the search bar of my local pc or the server that has BIDS installed on it, but the report will not display the image. When I add an image to the textbox, how do I set it up so that it

I'm noticing some strange behaviors when deploying reports from BIDS to SSRS. I have a parameter that has default values, but those default values don't seem to be getting propagated to the Report Server (they are stored in Parameters field in the Catalog table). Yet when I add new parameters I could see the field is changing. It's almost like the deployment tool is ignoring certain parameters. Any thoughts? If this helps, my RDL looks like this: <ReportParameter Name="INCLUDEDFIRMS"> <DataType>Integer</DataType> <DefaultValue> <Values> <Value>1</Value> </Values> </DefaultValue> <Prompt>Monkey

Initial Request: Create hierarchies over customer names and product descriptions. Problem: I created several similar hierarchies and the product description hierarchy is not visible in Excel Supporting details The computed columns for each hierarchy look like this: Column Name: Product Description Prefix1 Expression: CASE WHEN [ProductDescription] = 'N/A' THEN 'N/A' ELSE LEFT([ProductDescription], 1) END Column Name: Product Description Prefix5 Expression: CASE WHEN [ProductDescription] = 'N/A' THEN 'N/A' ELSE LEFT([ProductDescription], 5) END Column Name: Product Description Prefix10

This question is a follow up to my original question , I've done a bit more reseach, i narrowed a problem down quite a bit. I've also uploaded a sample .rdl to illustrate the problem I've got the following report setup: a header (image in the body), two textboxes, and a footer. First textbox has a little bit of text, and second textbox has lots of text. Second textbox can fit on one page by itself, but won't fit on the page with my header and the first textbox. The problem is that for some reason, the second textbox in the report is unaware of other contents of that same report, and as long as

Although my title states my current goal, I am open to alternative solutions. In short, I have a series of SSIS packages that are scheduled to run on a nightly basis, on our SQL Server machine. Due to various updates that happen in the ether of my corporate-IT, some times these exports brake and the process will stop working, in the middle of the job. To troubleshoot this process, I fire up BIDS on my workstation and restart which ever process fails. This is useful because it's been my experience that any error generated from within BIDS are much more useful than anything I've found from

I would need to migrate a SQL database from Sybase to MS SQL Server. Before doing the actual migration on the production server I first created an SSIS-package with SQL Server Management Studio's Import/Export Wizard for testing with other databases. The test migration was successful and I would now like to deploy my SSIS-package to the real servers. However, it seems I cannot simply run the package in Management Studio choosing different data sources for it - it only runs on the same databases for which it was created. Now, it can be edited in something called SQL Server Business Intelligence