Writing Reports with Report Designer and SSRS 2016 Level 2 — Lesson 1: Advanced Report Design and Data Regions

Learning Objectives

• Review SSRS project structure, shared data sources, datasets, parameters, and report lifecycle
• Design advanced tablix, matrix, list, grouping, sorting, and nested data-region layouts
• Use expressions, calculated fields, formatting rules, and reusable report components

Detailed Topics

• Review SSRS project structure: Review SSRS project structure, shared data sources, datasets, parameters, and report lifecycle
• Design advanced tablix: Design advanced tablix, matrix, list, grouping, sorting, and nested data-region layouts
• Use expressions: Use expressions, calculated fields, formatting rules, and reusable report components

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Build an advanced grouped report with expressions, parameters, and reusable styling.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Advanced Report Design and Data Regions in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.