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Author  Topic  Ogreite Starting Member 5 Posts Posted - 2006-06-06 : 11:20:03 Is it possible to use a report model for a report built in Report Designer and not in Report Builder? The Report Designer (report authoring tool that is hosted within the MS Visual Studio environment) lets you create rdl reports and then deploy them onto SQL Server Reporting Services. You can build rdl reports on SQL Server Reporting Services via the Report Builder. The difference is that when you build a report with the Report Builder, you use a data model (the data model can be built and deployed from MS Visual Studio). When you build a report with the Report Designer, you have a Datasource and a bunch of datasets. Lets say that I want all reports (regardless of which tool is used to build them) to be based on the same set of data. Is it possible for the Report Designer to be built upon a report model just like you can when using Report Builder? Cheers