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SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook

You're reading from   SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services Cookbook Your one-stop guide to operational reporting and mobile dashboards using SSRS 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461810
Length 596 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Robert Cain Robert Cain
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Dinesh Priyankara Dinesh Priyankara
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting It Ready – Configuring Reporting Services FREE CHAPTER 2. Authoring Reports with SQL Server Data Tools 3. Advanced Report Authoring with SQL Server Data Tools 4. Authoring Reports with Report Builder 5. Improving User Experience – New Designing and Visualization Enhancements 6. Authoring Reports with the Mobile Report Publisher 7. Consuming Reports – Report Access Enhancement 8. Reporting Solutions for BI – Integration 9. SharePoint Integration 10. Administering and Managing Reporting Services 11. Securing Reports in Reporting Services 12. Custom Programming and Integration to .NET Applications

Understanding mobile report graphical elements


Our dashboard has come a long way. We've assembled it and tied it to real data on the back end. But we can still do a bit more to make the report look nicer.

Each report has a set of graphical elements properties that can be set to alter the appearance of each element even more. In this recipe, we'll see how to update the properties for each of our report elements to make it look even nicer.

Getting ready

As before, this recipe picks up where the previous one left off. If you don't have Report 06-01 ready, open it or create it so that you can follow along.

How to do it...

  1. Go to the Layout tab.

  2. In the designer area, click on Time chart 1 in the upper left.

  3. At the bottom, under the designer area, the Visual properties for Time chart 1 should appear.

  4. Change the Title property to Sales by Year:

    Figure 6.24

  5. Note the scroll bar under the Visual properties. Scroll to see all the properties associated with a time chart, but there is no need to change them.

  6. Click...

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