Showing posts with label Sharepoint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sharepoint. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

How to use a Sharepoint list as a datasource for Microsoft Reporting Services

Step 1:

Create Sharepoint List that contains the data you would like to report against.
 Step 2: Once in SSRS:
     1. Create a new datasource
          a. Name – Name of datasource
          b. Type – XML
          c. Connection String – Home page of the Sharepoint site where the list exists.
               NOTE: After the name of the site remove the “default” and replace it with   <</_vti_bin/Lists.asmx>>
               http://<server>/<path>/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx
          d. Use Windows Authentication