Today I was rocking along in SSRS 2008R2 and then absent mindedly closed the Report Data tab by clicking the x at the top corner! When I go to the View menu, I do NOT have the choice of Report Data.
Never fear. I’ve found a few ways to get it back.
One way is to use the key combination Ctrl-Alt-D But that may not do anything unless you first either double click on the name of the report ([reportname].rdl) in Solution Explorer or simply click on the Design surface where you’re creating the report.
In fact, clicking on the report in progress itself may bring Report Data back to the old View menu immediately!
If all else fails and you can’t seem to get Report Data to reappear, you can always reset your windows to the way Nature intended them.
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Nice post and properly explained….can you please make a simple video of it, because then it would be more clear. I was bit confused about to find the Report Data tab….thanks indeed
Thank you very much for this post. Very helpful constantly I have problem with the SSRS
Yes it would be much clearer on videos although your illustration is fine but there are newbies who wanted to learn from you also.
Another great input! This really useful and I’m sure it will come in handy one of these days. I see lots of people having trouble with SSRS. Haven’t read much about solutions like these for SSRS errors before.
Awesome! You actually figured it out yourself! Thanks for sharing this one. I might actually need this just in case I click that x button!
Helpful post. Thanks!
A great way thanks for the article
I don’t use SSRS but I do find little keyboard shortcuts like these useful in many programs! Especially one that recovers data that you thought you’ve already lost!
really helpful for me, before I always lost data after closing
I often had this issue. Thank you for this detailed post!
I kept doing the same thing with SSRS; I haven’t been using recently as I kept closing tabs and then having to try to find how to bring them back.
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Thanks for the very informative article i bet you helped a lot of people.
I think you will be able to help people in much better way if you make a video tutorial of this video and upload in on youtube. Don’t forget to give the copyrights to everyone so that people can also post it on their blogs and spread the awareness. Anyhow thumbs up for you