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Change Data Source At Runtime
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26/05/2009 23:57:10
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
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ASP.NET
Category:
Reporting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01401975
Message ID:
01402160
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>>>>>>>I have developed a report for my app. I need to point it to the customer's data on their site. I have done this with older versions of CR, but I can't seem to find out how to do this in C# /VS2008/ I Googled it, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for.
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>>>>>>Is it XML data they have posted on the web, or what?
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>>>>>SQL 2005 on their server
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>>>>How are you getting the data? Are you loading it into your application and then passing it to your report? Is your report directly connecting to the data?
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>>>I'm using stored procedures. The report will call the proc.
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>>So can you change the connection string in the report? I guess I'm not understanding specifically what you need to do.
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>When I created the report the Data Explorer prompted me for the Server, Database, and and Stored Proc. I'm guessing the server name is fixed in the report. How do I point the report to a different server?

I don't know the exact location of the option, but I believe it's called Change Datasource Location. I remember it being pretty easy to find in the menu.
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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