Monday, 24 July 2006
Reports in VSTS and case sensitvity
I've been meaning to blog about this for a while. You can create new reports for use in your VSTS project. The mechanism is easy, you have to create a new Business Intelligence Project; choose Report Server Wizard; and create a report. You then want to deploy the report, to do that, in the project propertiews you specify the target report folder and the target server URL. This is where it gets weird.
The TargetReportFolder is the name of the TFS project you want the report deployed to. This value is Case Sensitive!!! But the bizarre thing is, if you enter a case in-sensitive name the report will deploy OK. It will also run OK from report services. It's only when you go to Team Explorer and try and get a list of reports that you will notice an error. At that point you will get the report folder (in Team Explorer) with a little red star and no idea as to the problem.
You need to delete the report in Report Services, make sure the TargetReportFolder name is the correct case and re-deploy.
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