How to install/setup

Please remember to check system requirements in the Architecture section before setup

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Short instruction

Clone/Download TheRDL GIT repository. Deploy SQL schema files onto your SQL Server. Optionally add your settings in the DB tables. Find RDL file, deploy it onto your Reporting Server, update data source to point into Server/DB where SQL schema was deployed. Run the report(s).

Detailed instruction

Go to TheRDL repository Find Release section on the right hand side:

Go inside the latest release, scroll down to the assets and download the sql installation files, TheRDL file (and optionally examples):

Run the installation_file.sql against your selected database. Please note it is safe to run installation file multiple times on the same DB

Optionally run in similar way ExamplesInstall.sql

Deploy SQLKiss - TheRDL.rdl onto your SSRS Server

At this stage everything is fully installed and ready to be used

Optionally add configuration settings into dbo.TherdlSetting table. For example:

The below example code has been already applied if you installed ExamplesInstall.sql

INSERT INTO dbo.TherdlSetting(Code, Description, OrderID, DBName, SchemaName, ObjectName, ShowOnlyColumnsArrayListJSON)
VALUES('CustomerInfo', 'Expose customer information', 10, DB_NAME(), 'dbo', 'Customer', '["ID", "Active", "Name"]')
;

Run SQLKiss - TheRDL: