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Helper V

5 years ago

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Data Source Created. How to use with Paginated Report

So, I have successfully created a Data Source in Power BI Report Server. I'd like to use that when authoring a Paginated Report BUT, that option isn't available in the list of available Data Sources ...

Data Source

d_gosbell
5 years ago
pawlowski6132 - I see the issue now. Just like there are 2 versions of Power BI Desktop, there are also 2 versions of Report Builder and you are using the version built for powerbi.com not the on-prem version. v-deddai1-msft is still confusing the issue between Power BI Desktop and Report Builder.

If you open the home page of your Report Server portal, in the top right corner is a downloads icon which has a menu that will take you to the correct version of both Power BI Desktop and Report Builder to use with your version of Power BI Report Server.

Or if you are on the Jan 2021 release you can get the latest version of the on-prem Report Builder from the following link

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53613

When you use this version you will see the option for using shared datasets as in the screenshots I posted earlier.

d_gosbell

Super User

5 years ago

There seems to be a lot of confusion on this thread between paginated reports and pbix reports.

On Power BI Report Server data sources can ONLY be used by paginated reports and you have 3 options for connecting a report to a shared data set.

1. After deploying a report you can click on the "..." menu for that report, then click on "Manage", then in the Data Sources tab you can change any of your embedded connections to use one of the shared connections on the server. This is handy if you have an existing shared connection with the connectionstring/username/password already saved.

2. From Report Builder you can choose the option to use a Shared connection. Then you click browse, the first time you will need to enter "http://<servername>/reportserver" in the name area and click Open and you should then see the folders on your Report Server and you can navigate to and select one of the Data Sources you have already created.

3. If you are using SSDT to author your reports you can created both the shared data sources and your reports within your report project, then when you deploy that project both the reports and the data sources in that project will get deployed.