Writing Reports with Report Designer and SSRS 2016 Level 2 — Lesson 2: Interactive Reports, Drill Actions, and Visualization

Learning Objectives

• Create drilldown, drillthrough, bookmarks, document maps, and interactive navigation
• Design charts, gauges, indicators, sparklines, and business-focused visual summaries
• Control pagination, rendering, headers, footers, and multi-format export behavior

Detailed Topics

• Create drilldown: Create drilldown, drillthrough, bookmarks, document maps, and interactive navigation
• Design charts: Design charts, gauges, indicators, sparklines, and business-focused visual summaries
• Control pagination: Control pagination, rendering, headers, footers, and multi-format export behavior

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

Create an interactive management report with navigation and export validation.

• 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 Interactive Reports, Drill Actions, and Visualization in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.