VSTS Extension task to deploy Visual Studio Project - SQL Server Reporting Services entities.
Description
One or more Visual Studio projects from a solution, a project file or a complete folder, are deployed to a SQL Server Reporting Server Instance.
Supply a .rptproj file, a .sln file or a folder containing all your .rptproj files
How to Setup deploy
Make sure you've added the source of your project to a build artifact and that this build artifact is linked to your release definition
Note: Report projects do not require Build steps, what happens during a Visual Studio build is nothing more than a copy step of your sources to the build folder
Point the "Project, Solution or Folder" entry to the project you are going to deploy. If you specify a folder, all report projects underneath that folder will be searched
for report projects.
Note: make sure there is only one report project in your solution. Multiple report projects seem to cause an error during deployment. Multiple reports per project are no problem ofcourse.
Use the Overwrtie project Config checkbox to supply the target server parameters.
Server URL requires the service url, usually this is: https:///reportserver
When Overwrite Datasources and Overwrite Datasets are checked changes will be commited to the destination environment. Unckecking makes sure that once the datasource is setup on the target server
it will not be overwritten by a new deployment. New datasources will however be added to the server when applicable
"Create subfolders if multiple reports" has a special function: all reports will be stored in the Target folder, but when this checkbox is checked the deplyoment component will check if multiple
reports exist inside the project. In this case it will create a subfolder inside the target folder with the name of the project. All reports in this project will be stored in this new folder.
This is done on a project base.
