Sharing a datasource from a different folder

  • I reckon you could still embed them and then just reference them as appropriate but forgetting that, if you clickn drag an image control onto a report, you'll get a you-beaut wizard that let's you specify a web based image.  Enter your URL and get the image validated and away you go!

    Just watch out fi you have a proxy and the image is outside of the domain (ie have to traverse proxy).  @Work we have a proxy that requires authentication on every 'transmission' and there doesn't appear to be a way to indicate you want to do that to grab an image.

    Cheers,

    Steve.

  • Quick note on your original post, after you finish designing your report use VS to open the rdl and do a search (either for the DS name or for the element <datasourcereference>.  Change it to reference the shared DS as per it's location in the RS catalog.  You can use either absolute or relative referencing.  My simple sample is below.  I haven't tried publishing this thru VS but using the uplod functionslity within ReportManaer it work a treat.

     

    <DataSources>

    <DataSource Name="msdb">

    <DataSourceReference>/test/msdb</DataSourceReference>

    </DataSource>

    </DataSources>

    Cheers,

     

    Steve.

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