Monday, March 2, 2009

View Report Data window in Visual Studio 2008 / SRS 2008

Recently when working with Visual Studio 2008 / Sql Reporting Services 2008, the enviroment crashed. When reopened, the "Report Data" window was missing.

To make the window display again, it's easy to find, but in a slighty different place than the usual (not under the "Other Windows" section). It is located on the View menu itself, in my case, the last option on the menu (see image below).

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you!!

M A Sheikh said...

I wish MS sometimes stop inventing. Wasted half an hour to figure it out. Thanks for the post.

Nope said...

Thanks,
I wasted 20 min looking for this.

Summer said...

Had almost given up, thanks!

nczimm said...

Awesome, an actual answer. ReportData is not in my view dropdown and is not available to add, from what I can tell by right clicking the view button. Any help with this?

nczimm said...

Awesome, an actual answer. ReportDate does not appear in my view dropdown nor is it present when I right click the view button. Would you know how to find it?

Thanks

Adnan Badar said...

i tried everything but its not appearing

gpq said...

I had the same problem, and I also had the problem of "Report Data" not being at the bottom of the list:
You need to have a report open, and click on it to make it active. Then "Report Data" will show up at the bottom of the "View" list.

James Clark said...

Thanks GPQ. This was driving me up the wall.

Granite26 said...
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Alla said...

gpq, you saved me! thanks!

Alex Lush said...

Thanks. Found this solution after wasting 40 mins! Had to look in a text book to find a screenshot of what i was looking for then good ol' google turned up your blog!!

Unknown said...

tks worked for me. :)

Unknown said...

tks worked for me. :)

Unknown said...

tks worked for me. :)

Prasunjeet Soni said...

report data was shown on my previous project but now in new project its hide from view menu.

when i am in design mode of rdlc report file still not visible in view button.

gives solution

Bruce_b_uk said...

Hey, sometimes I found it disappears and won't even show when you do the right things - select report, in design mode.

However, if you create a brand new report and while in that creation workflow, check the 'View' menu, 'Report Data' shows - for me anyway.

Select it then and it will persist - for me anyway.

Good luck