Step By Step SSRS in 11 Hours: Hour 5

Introduction
This article shows how to create a custom template inside the report.

Contents

• Step By Step SSRS in 11 Hours: Hour 1
• Step By Step SSRS in 11 Hours: Hour 2
• Step By Step SSRS in 11 Hours: Hour 3
• Step By Step SSRS in 11 Hours: Hour 4
• Hour 5: Custom template
• Hour 6: Drill down report
• Hour 7: Sub report
• Hour 8: Report with style
• Hour 9: Report with chart
• Hour 10: Report deployment
• Hour 11: RDL file to ASP.NET

Custom Template
Step 1

• Right-click on "Reports", select "Add" and click on "New Item".
  
  

Step 2

• Select "Report Project" from the left panel and select "Report".
  
• Provide an appropriate name to the RDL.
  
• Press the "Add" button.
  
  

Step 3

• The RDL file is created and we have the design surface to design the report.
  
  

Step 4

• Right-click on the design surface then select "Insert" and click on "Page Header".
  
  

Step 5

• Right-click on the design surface then select "Insert" and click on "Page Footer".
  
  

Step 6

• The page header and page footer is created in the RDL file.
  
  

Step 7

• Right-click on the header portion and select "Header Properties" to design the header.
  
  

Step 8

• In the same way right-click on the footer portion and select "Footer Properties" to design the footer.
  
  

Step 9

• In general properties we have the option to print on the first page and / or the last page. Also we can set the height of the header or footer. 
  
  *Print on the first page.

Step 10

• In the fill properties we can set the background color or set the background image.
  
  

Step 11

• We can also select the border style, width and color using the border properties.
  
  

Step 12

• We can use built-in-fields for the header and footer, like the page name, page number and so on.
  
  

Step 13

• Here in our example we set Grey as the background color in the header and footer.
  
• We set the execution time and page number from the built-in fields for the footer.
  
  

Step 14

• Our custom template is ready, now we need to save it.
  
• Click on "File" >> "Save MyCustomTemplate.rdl As".
  
  

Step 15

• Provide an appropriate name and save it on the following path.
  
  

Step 16

• Now let's design a report using the created template.
  
• Right-click on "Reports", select "Add" and click on "New Item".
  
  

Step 17

• Select "Report Project" from the left panel.
  
• Select "MyCustomTemplate" rather than "Report" to implement the template.
  
• Provide an appropriate name to the report.
  
  

Step 18

• Now you can see, our custom template is automatically added to the report design surface.