如何分发SSRS报告？

Question

(distinction, I'm talking about distributing a report--not deploying a report to a report server)

To our product we've recently added support for it so it can dump various stats to a database (mssql server). Since then, I've made reports (where the datasource is my own sql server). But if I want to get these reports into the hands of customers (pointing to their own database, obviously) so they don't need to make their own (or if they don't want/can't make their own) is there a good way to do this?

I'd rather not have to give instructions on how to use the report creator and have them copy/paste what I've done nor have them open it and change the datasource. I'm completely new to using SSRS and don't know any of its intricacies. I know I can query the database to see what reports are available, is there a way to just add an entire report to the database via code (c# or java)?

Answer 1

Assuming that they have SSRS installed and configured, and assuming that their DB (tables, SPs etc.) match your report - one of the way this could be done is:

1. When creating your report use a shared datasource (don't use one embedded into report)
2. Ask a customer to create shared data source in their SSRS instance under the same name , but pointing to their DB
3. Profit! That's it, all you have to to is to give them the RDL file, they will upload it to their SSRS. It will use shared datasource they provided to pull data from their DB