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2. Editing existing SSRS Reports: ............................................................................................................... 4
3. Developing a new SSRS report: ............................................................................................................. 5
4. Developing Query Based SSRS reports using VS ................................................................................... 6
4.1. Previewing SSRS reports from Visual Studio ............................................................................... 11
4.2. Viewing SSRS report on browser ................................................................................................ 11
Opening SSRS report from AX ................................................................................................................. 13
4.3. Filtering a report with an specific parameter ............................................................................. 14
5. Developing RDP based SSRS reports ................................................................................................... 17
6. Using Controller Class ......................................................................................................................... 21
6.1. Examples of controller class usage ............................................................................................. 21
6.1.1. HcmEmployeeLeaveController ........................................................................................... 21
6.1.2. BankDepositSlipController .................................................................................................. 22
7. Data Contract class for SSRS Reports .................................................................................................. 22
7.1. Defining label and help text for parameters ........................................................................... 23
• SSRS Installation and Configuration:
Before start developing SSRS report for MS Dynamics AX, you need to install BI components and
Visual Studio tools from MS Dynamics AX setup. The setup form is shown below with BI
Components and Visual Studio tools options checked:
After installing BI Components and Visual Studio tools, you are ready to start working on SSRS
reports for MS Dynamics AX. To verify that the BI Components installed successfully and report
servers are correctly configured in MS Dynamics AX, Go to Tools -> BI tools -> BI reports servers.
Configuration form is shown below:
Verify that the values are filled in and server name is the name of your machine.
• Query
• Business Logic.
When you use query as a data source type for SSRS report then the report is called Query based report.
Now, I am going to explain you that how we develop SSRS reports based on Query.
The Query name is SampleQuery. Add CustTable under the data sources node of the query. All the fields
of the CustTable are included in the AOT query. Now you need to create an SSRS report which used this
query as a data source and display all the fields of CustTable on SSRS report. Open Visual Studio and
goto File -> New Project. New Project dialog form will be opened as shown below:
Select Microsoft Dynamics AX under Project types and Report Model under Templates section. Specify
the name of the report as ‘QueryBasedReporrt’ and press OK button. A new SSRS project will be created
as shown below:
Now you need to add a report under the above project. Right click on the project, select Add and then
select Report. A report will be added to the project with the name Report1. Change the report name to
QueryBasedReport. Now the solution explorer should look like as shown below
Double click on the newly created report. You will see report items on the left side in Visual
Studio as shown in the below screen shot:
• Datasets: The report dataset retrieves data from the AOT query. All fields which
are available in AOT query are shown in the report dataset which can be referred
in the report design later on.
• Designs: The design or layout of the report on which the data would be
displayed after retrieving from AX.
• Images: Any embedded images that you want to display on SSRS report.
• Data Methods: Business logic written in C#. Data methods are no more
recommended.
You first need to create a dataset that will refer to an AOT query created earlier. Right click on
Datasets node and click ‘Add Dataset’. A dataset will be created with name ‘DataSet1’. Rename
it to ‘QueryBasedReportDS’. The newly created dataset should refer to the AOT query from
where the data can be picked. Right click on the newly created dataset and select ‘Properties’.
Set the data source type to ‘Query’ and click on the ‘Query’ property. An ellipses button
appears, click on it. A new window will open which shows the entire AOT queries present in
Dynamics AX. Select the query ‘SampleQuery’ which you have created earlier as shown below:
Select All Fields from the right column to show all fields on the report dataset and then click
‘OK’ button. All the fields which are added on AOT query are now showing on the report
dataset. You can see all the fields by expanding the Fields node under the dataset. You can refer
to any of these fields on the report design. Now we have created a dataset which provides the
data to the report, the next step is to create a report design.
There are two types of report designs available in SSRS report i.e. AutoDesign and
PrecisionDesign. First preference when developing reports is to use AutoDesign unless you
need a custom placement of fields in a report and in that case you have to use PrecisionDesign.
Generally for complex report designs, we use PrecisionDesign. For the sake of simplicity, we will
use AutoDesign here for our first SSRS report.
Right click on the Designs node, click on Add-> AutoDesign. An auto design is created with the
name AutoDesign1. Change its name to ‘Report’ by right clicking on the AutoDesign1 and click
Rename. It is recommended that you set the name of the Design to either ‘Design’ or ‘Report’.
Now drag the data set of the report ‘QueryBasedReportDS’ on Report Design named ‘Report’. A
table will be created which contains all the fields that are shown in the report dataset. The
value of these fields will be shown on the report output in the same order as it is showing in the
data table. The final report design should look like as shown below:
Now we execute the report to see the output. The records will be fetched from Customer table
so make sure that the CustTable has some records in it before opening the report otherwise a
blank output will be shown. There are three ways of opening an SSRS report which are as
follows:
• From Visual Studio which is actually the preview of the report.
A separate preview page is open which will show the report output. If your report has some
parameters then the parameters will be shown first and then the output will be shown based
on the values of the parameters. Following report output will be shown when you preview the
report from VS:
To view SSRS report from browser, go to URL http://localhost/reports. When the page is open
you will see the Dynamics folder link shown on the page. By clicking on the Dynamics folder you
can see the list of all SSRS reports deployed on the report server as shown below:
Click on the report which you want to preview on browser. In our case, click on the SSRS report
QueryBasedReport.Report to view it on browser. Following output will be shown when you
view the report from browser:
Opening SSRS report from AX
To open SSRS report from AX, you first need to create an output menu item which refers to the
SSRS report you have created earlier. Below screen shot shows how to do this:
Step 1: Create an output menu item Step 2: Set the object type and object properties as
shown in the above screen shot.
Now right click on the output menu item QueryBasedReport and select Open to launch the
report. Following output will be shown when you run the report from AX:
• Filtering a report with an specific parameter
Suppose you want to filter the report we have developed earlier by customer group. In that case you
need to show the parameter customer group on the report dialog so that user can run the report for a
specific customer group. Steps are shown below:
Step 1: Adding range in a report query. Step 2: Add CustGroup field under the Ranges node.
Now compile the query ‘SampleQuery’ to save the changes. Run the report by right clicking the output
menu item and select Open. Following report dialog will be shown:
You can see the customer group parameter in the above dialog which we have added through report
query. Another parameter customer account is shown on the above dialog. Just ignore this parameter,
it is showing here because this field is the part of unique index on CustTable. Now click on the select
button to specify a value for customer group parameter shown above. Following screen shot will be
shown:
Select the customer group 30 and click OK button. Customer group 30 will be shown selected on the
report dialog as shown below:
Again click the OK button on the report dialog to open the report filtered by customer group 30.
Following output will be shown:
As you can see that, only those records are shown, which have customer group 30. In the same way you
can apply as many filters as you want on the report AOT query to filter the report based on that field’s
value.
• An RDP class.
• An AOT query.
• A temp table.
The query has been modified for this example and now RDP class and temp table needs to be created.
Just for a demo purpose, I have thought of a requirement where we need to display the transaction
amount based on the customer group. The logic is as follows:
Create a new class and name it SampleReportDP. In class declaration extend the class from
SRSReportDataProviderBase class. Add the following line before class declaration:
[SRSReportQueryAttribute(querystr(SampleQuery))]
This attribute specifies the AOT query which is used by this SSRS report. Also declare some class
variables which are needed to store the values, retrieved after running the report query. The class
declaration should look like as shown below:
The second step is to create a temp table which is used to store the report data. Create a new table and
name it SampleReportTmp. Set the TableType property of the new table to InMemory. Create four
fields in the temp table as shown below:
Create a new method in RDP class which will select the temp table records and return it afterwards to
be used by the SSRS report. The new method should look like as shown below:
Now we are going to implement the logic discussed above in RDP class processReport method. The
processReport method in RDP class is the point where the report processing begins. This method is
called by the reporting framework. Actual report logic needs to be written in this method. In our case,
the code for processReport method is as follows:
while (queryRun.next())
{
custTable = queryRun.get(tablenum(CustTable));
custTrans = queryRun.get(tablenum(CustTrans));
amountCur = custTrans.AmountCur;
voucher = custTrans.Voucher;
custGroup = custTable.CustGroup;
transDate = custTrans.TransDate;
switch (custGroup)
{
case '20':
amountCur = amountCur * 20;
break;
case '40':
amountCur = amountCur * 40;
case '60':
amountCur = amountCur * 60;
default:
amountCur = custTrans.AmountCur;
}
this.insertSampleReportTmp();
}
}
Create a new Microsoft Dynamics AX reporting project from VS 2010 and name it RDPBasedReport. Add
a report item to the project by right clicking on the Project. Change the report name to
RDPBasedReport. Create a new data set and name it SampleRDPReportDS. Now open the properties
page for the newly created dataset by clicking Ctrl + Enter. Set the data source type to ‘Report Data
Provider’. Select the query property and click the ellipses to open the RDP class selection window. From
the list of classes, select your RDP class which was SampleReportDP and then click next. Afterwards,
select all the fields and then click OK. You report should match with the following screen shot:
Notice the query mentioned in the Query property of dataset. It is the syntax for mentioning RDP class
and temp table in the query property whenever you use the report data provider as data source type.
Add the new report to AOT by right clicking on the report project. Now deploy the report by right click
on the report solution and select deploy solution to deploy the SSRS report on report server.
Create a new output menu item, and name it RDPBasedReport. Set its properties as shown below:
Now right click on the menu item and select Open to launch the SSRS report we have just developed.
The report output should match with the below screen shot:
• Using Controller Class
Following table describes the scenarios and suggests the proper way of using controller class in SSRS
reports:
• HcmEmployeeLeaveController
In this class the controller class is use to modify the report query before the report is run. Below is the
code in preRunModifyContract() method:
Whenever you need to modify the report query before report execution, you need to override this
method in your controller class. This method is called by the framework. In the above example, the local
method setRanges is called which will modify the report query accordingly.
Note that the controller class must extend from SrsReportRunController class. In the main method of
controller class, parmReportName method is used to specify the name of the report you want to run.
Support if an SSRS report has two designs, then you can run either of them by specifying here the fully
qualified report name. The startOperation() method is used to run the report. Below is the main method
of the HcmEmployeeLeaveController class:
• BankDepositSlipController
This class uses the prePromptModifyContract method to modify the report query before the report
dialog is rendered. Following is the code written in prePromptModifyContract method:
The setRanges method has been called here which will modify the report query before the report dialog
is rendered.
Controller.parmShowDialog(false);
The parm methods represents the report parameters and the validate method use to validate the report
parameters. Notice the contract class implements the SysOperationValidatable interface. It is
necessary, if you are going to provide validation on report parameters. After that you need to override
the validate method on the contract class.
[
AifDataMemberAttribute('DifferencesOnly'),
SysOperationLabelAttribute(literalstr("@SYS57830")),
SysOperationHelpTextAttribute(literalstr("@SYS328295"))
]
public boolean parmDifferencesOnly(boolean _differencesOnly = differencesOnly)
{
differencesOnly = _differencesOnly;
return differencesOnly;
}
The SysOperationLabelAttribute attribute is used to define label for report parameter and
SysOperationHelpTextAttribute is used to define help text for report parameter.