Home Forums Reporting Services SSRS 2016 SSRS Report Descriptions Query RE: SSRS Report Descriptions Query

  • July 17, 2017 at 4:10 pm

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    darrenkelly - Monday, July 17, 2017 8:45 AM

    Hi
    In SSRS 2016 is there a way to add a description to the report before it gets deployed so that when the report is deployed the new/updated description is deployed with it.

     We keep having to go to the Report Server and add in and change the descriptions for each report across all our environments, which is just daft.

    Thanks

    I haven't played with it in Visual Studio/SSDT for awhile but the description property is exposed but it doesn't update. I traced it before and I think it just goes back to whatever the original value was.
    It is exposed and you can add/update it with Report Builder - report properties, Description.
    You can also update it using the web services. There is an example of updating a report description using web services in this link:
    ReportingService2010.SetProperties Method

    Sue