My method works until Kinetic is fixed --or they kill Classic-- which ever comes first 
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Thatās such a tedious way to do it and you canāt preview changes. This works for simple tweaks like logo changes but for something complex or a totally new report this is a non-starter.
Randy do you ever use the design for ssrs and download functionality where you can preview changes without having to upload it?
@utaylor yup, two posts above you
So, hereās a DevOps fever dream I had. Imagine:
PowerShell 7.5.3
PS C:\Users\mwonsil> dotnet new SSRSReport
>> Based on Current Report? OrderAck
>> Report Style? SSRS
>> Modify RDD? Yes
>> RDD Based On? OrderAck
>> New RDD Name? OrderAck2
>> New Repository? Yes
>> Repository URL? htts://github.com/kineticize/reports/OrderAck2
>> Deploy to Environment? Pilot
>> Ready(Y/n)? Y
The template would use REST to:
So, every time you commit, it performs all the steps that @brendanphilbin outlined above. Time could be saved if the test run used a known GUID with pre-loaded test data.
And then I woke upā¦
Printing the report as āGenerate For Designā, then using āDesign SSRSā in System Monitor was a great method but doesnāt work currently in Kinetic and Classic was working but started throwing errors when trying to publish.
Oh wait, I forgot about the part where I did the pull-request and it took the last commit and published it to production. Now I have a full history of all changes I made and can easily publish to any instance. Even the test data could be in the repoā¦and there was even moreā¦
Thatād be great but at a minimum Iād be happy if they just fixed their Kinetic UI and made it work like Classic used to.
Nice. Had a very similar dream for copy, transform source to xml, publish to Bold Reports but didnāt work out.
It seems everyones env has different symptoms. FWIW, mine is working in Kinectic Browser all except publish. But I can zip and upload via Report Style - still kinetic.
2025.1 or before was like:
2025.1 (back in may, after edge agent update not sure which patch) was like:
Just tested and thatās still the story in our env. So we can do all things in Kinectic. Publish isnāt single click but preview is working.
**PS - This is the worst part - behind every window on some random monitor. LOL
Just got this from support for cloud customers:
We no longer can use custom report names (e.g. JobTravCoV2), have to use the names that were downloaded in the zip. You have to make a copy of the out-of-box report style and use that download as a starting point.
If you need to add a subreport, create an EpicCare ticket. The subreport name shouldnāt have special characters (e.g. CoPartDataSub, not CoPartData-Sub)
Hope that helps others - itās been a bit of a frustrating journey for us.
Jenn
Thanks for more info on this.
A couple of things.
First, I whipped up a how-to on download/upload for RDLs from Kinetic 2025.2.5, FWIW. The procedure isnāt too onerous.
How To Download Edit and Upload SSRS Reports In Kinetic.docx (423.0 KB)
And when an RDL mysteriously stopped changing/uploading, I created a new report style and changed the folder name within Custom Reports on the popup in Report Style, per suggestion from Epicare. In this case, I was working with an order acknowledgment, so I changed the folder from SalesOrderAcknowledgment to SalesOrderAcknowledgment2. It has worked since.
Note that I copied from the standard base style and then changed the RDD and RDL names accordingly. I canāt say if thatās significant.
Your mileage may vary.
Joe
Thanks Joe!
