SSRS: the given path's format is not supported

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:57:33 +0000

As an aside to my other post on SSRS in SharePoint integrated mode, this is a niggly little issue I encountered.

If you find yourself needing to edit a published report and, for whatever reason can’t go back to source to make the change, then a reasonable option is to download a copy of the report from SharePoint and then open it up in your Visual Studio of choice and make the edits. RDL files are pretty great at encapsulating everything they need to run within a single file (they are just XML files, after all) so this is a workable approach.

SSRS + Visual Studio + SP Integrated Mode

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:44:30 +0000

Visual Studio is a good option for designing SSRS reports. Now, that is. But years ago we had a different toolset. One of those around the 2009/2010 time was ‘Business Intelligence Developer Studio’. This was effecting a Visual Studio shell that had report templates for the various SQL Business Intelligence suite (e.g., SSIS, SSRS, SSAS.) and was installed from the main SQL Server installer. This then morphed in to SQL Server Data Tools which was available as a standalone package.

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SSRS: the given path's format is not supported

SSRS + Visual Studio + SP Integrated Mode