Indisputably SQL Server Reporting Companies (SSRS) is among the strongest reporting instruments for a number of years. There are tons of options that you should utilize to make a report that fits your prospects’ wants. Regardless of programmability and extensibility are key strengths of Reporting Companies platform in terms of creating dashboards, SSRS has completely nothing to supply as SSRS is a report authoring device. So it by no means supposed to supply dashboards. In outdated days we might create net elements in SharePoint or we might set up Efficiency Level and embrace SSRS reviews in Efficiency Level dashboards. However, organising and implementing dashboards in SharePoint/Efficiency Level was all the time a painful job. Fortunately with the brand new model of SQL Server 2016 we’re in a position to pin visuals from present on-prem SSRS reviews to a Energy BI dashboard. On this article I clarify how SSRS 2016 and Energy BI integration works.

Once you meet the above necessities you possibly can pin visuals from present SSRS reviews to Energy BI or you possibly can create model new reviews and pin the visuals to Energy BI.

Word: You may solely pin report visuals to Energy BI which means you received’t be capable of pin tables and matrix to Energy BI.

Word: For those who don’t need to set up the developer version of SQL Server 2016 OR for any purpose you can’t use the developer version, don’t fear, the performance I’m going to elucidate is on the market in different editions of SQL Server 2016. Certainly, the one editions that doesn’t assist SSRS integration with Energy BI are “Categorical Version” and ” Categorical with Instruments” editions. Verify this out for extra data.

After putting in SQL Server it is advisable to configure Reporting Companies. As configuring Reporting Companies is out of scope I go away it to you.

Word: On the time of writing this text I used to be utilizing SQL Server 2016 CTP3. The identical ideas apply to SQL Server 2016.

Word: For those who click on “Private account” you received’t be capable of register  Energy BI. You’ll get the next error message:

“Registering Energy BI ClientApp Didn’t register Energy BI shopper software. It’s possible you’ll not have permissions to register an app with Azure Energetic Listing.”

The goal of this put up isn’t explaining find out how to create a SSRS report so I go away this to you. However, for many who simply began working with SSRS, you possibly can obtain Journey Works databases from right here. Then all you want is to alter the info sources to level to your SQL Server occasion then deploy the reviews to your Report Server. On this put up I used “Gross sales by area” report.

Word: Bear in mind to click on “Wok or college account” as your account sort in any other case you’ll get redirected to the “Register” web page.

• Authorise Energy BI by clicking on “Settle for” button. If you wish to see what permission you’re giving to your report server simply hover over the query marks in entrance of every permission

• Click on “Pin to Energy BI Dashboard” button once more

• Click on a report merchandise to pin to Energy BI

• Choose a dashboard from the record

• Choose frequency of updates then click on “Pin”

Thus far you efficiently pinned a SSRS visible to your Energy BI dashboard. Now login to your Energy BI account and verify the dashboard for the SSRS visible you pinned.

• It’s best to see a brand new like this tile added to the dashboard:

• Clicking on the tile ought to open the SSRS report in a brand new tab
• Return to the Energy BI dashboard. To vary the tile particulars click on on the ellipsis button on high proper of the tile

• You may both click on on the URL to open the SSRS report, delete or edit the tile or pin it to a different dashboard by clicking on the specified button

• Click on Edit tile particulars
• Modify the specified particulars and click on Apply

Word: Bear in mind to run SQL Server Agent if it’s not up and working in any other case you get the next error message and received’t be capable of pin the visuals to Energy BI dashboard.

“We are able to’t pin to Energy BI proper now as a result of the service that schedules dashboard tile refreshes (SQL Server Agent) isn’t working on the report server. (rsSchedulerNotResponding)”

As  I discussed earlier than you possibly can unregister with Energy BI by clicking “Unregister with Energy BI” from “Reporting Companies Configuration Supervisor”.

An alternate is to revoke app permission from Energy BI Admin settings which is on the market if have admin permissions.

• Login to your Energy BI Service
• Click on Energy BI menu then click on “Admin”

• You probably have Workplace 365 account you’ll see one thing like this within the menu

• Click on “View all my apps”
• Click on “Settings” menu from high proper of the web page then click on “Workplace 365 settings”

• Click on “App Permissions”
• Now you can “Revoke” the “Microsoft Energy BI” app permission

Word: Take into accout  when  you revoke Energy BI app permissions then the Energy BI person(s) will be unable to pin SSRS visuals to Energy BI any extra they usually’ll obtain the next error message:

“The report execution gwr25245qqb4pzqsplxvuv55 has expired or can’t be discovered. (rsExecutionNotFound)”

To resolve this simply open “Reporting Companies Configuration Supervisor”  then click on “Energy BI Integration” and click on “Replace Registration” button.

Registering the identical Reporting Companies with a couple of account isn’t attainable so if you wish to register with a brand new Energy BI account then it is advisable to “Unregister” the present registration then register with the brand new account. To realize this:

• Click on “Unregister with Energy BI” button

• Exit the Configuration Supervisor then reopen it
• Begin the service

• Go to “Energy BI Integration” and register with the brand new Energy BI account

Word: The rationale for stopping and beginning the service is that when you click on “Unregister with Energy BI” and click on “Register with Energy BI” with out restarting the service, closing and reopening the Configuration Supervisor, then it SSRS registers with the outdated Energy BI account with out asking for brand new account.

• Open Report Supervisor out of your browser
• Click on “My Settings” from high proper of the web page

• Click on “Signal out” button

• Click on “Register” and enter the brand new Energy BI account credentials

• All accomplished! Now you possibly can pin the SSRS visuals to your new Energy BI account