SSRS : What is a report manager

Report Manager is a Web-based report access and management tool that you use to administer a single report server instance from a remote location over an HTTP connection. You can also use Report Manager for its report viewer and navigation features. You can use Report Manager to perform the following tasks:

• View, search, print, and subscribe to reports.
• Create, secure, and maintain the folder hierarchy to organize items on the server.
• Configure role-based security that determines access to items and operations.
• Configure report execution properties, report history, and report parameters.
• Create report models that connect to and retrieve data from a Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services data source or from a SQL Server relational data source.
• Set model item security to allow access to specific entities in the model, or map entities to predefined clickthrough reports that you create in advance.
• Create shared schedules and shared data sources to make schedules and data source connections more manageable.
• Create data-driven subscriptions that roll out reports to a large recipient list.
• Create linked reports to reuse and repurpose an existing report in different ways.
• Launch Report Builder to create reports that you can save and run on the report server.
  
  

Starting Report Manager

1. Open Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later.
   
   
2. In the address bar of the Web browser, type the Report Manager URL. By default, the URL is http://<ComputerName>/reports. The report server might be configured to use a specific port. For example, http:// <ComputerName>:80/reports or http:// <ComputerName>:8080/reports.

Icon Descriptions

Icon	Description	Action
	Report	Click the report icon or name to open the report. The report opens in a separate window.
	Report model	Click the report model icon to open model property pages.
	Linked report	Click the report icon or name to open the linked report. The report opens in a separate window.
	Folder	Click the folder icon or name to open the folder.
	Subscription	Click a subscription icon or description to edit a subscription.
	Data-driven subscription	Click a data-driven subscription icon or description to edit a subscription.
	Resource	Click the resource icon or name to open the resource. The resource opens in a separate window.
	Shared data source item	Click a shared data source icon to open the property pages, report list, and subscription list of the data source.
	Property page	Click the property icon to access additional pages to set properties and security.

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