55204-A: Writing Reports with Report Designer and SSRS 2014 Level 1 — Lesson 3: Parameters, Charts, and Professional Formatting

Learning Objectives

• Create single-value, multi-value, and cascading parameters
• Build charts and apply clear visual formatting
• Control headers, footers, page breaks, pagination, and print layout

Detailed Topics

• Create single-value: Create single-value, multi-value, and cascading parameters
• Build charts and apply clear visual formatting: Build charts and apply clear visual formatting
• Control headers: Control headers, footers, page breaks, pagination, and print layout

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 a parameter-driven report with a supporting chart.

• 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 Parameters, Charts, and Professional Formatting in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.