Life Cycle Of A Report

SSRS

 Life Cycle Of Reporting : 

It is Classified By Following :

Authoring → Management → Delivery

Authoring: In this phase, the report author defines the layout and syntax of the data. The tools used in this process are the SQL Server Development Studio and SSRS tool.

Management: This phase involves managing a published report which is mostly part of the websites. In this stage, you need to consider access control over report execution.

Delivery: In this phase, you need to understand when the reports need to be delivered to the customer base. Delivery can be on-demand or pre-defined. You can also add an automation feature of subscription which creates reports and sends to the customer automatically.

What is RDL?

Report Definition Language is shortly known as RDL. It describes all possible elements of a report using an XML grammar which is validated by an XML schema.

The report definition of an individual report is based on RDL. It contains instructions for rendering the design of the report at the run time.