global constant for multiple reports

I have a set of 25 reports that contain the links to the other application
(URL). Is there a way to define a single "global" string for all the reports
to quickly replace that url with the right one? Let's say it's
http://testingserver/app for testing, and http://production/app for
production. I hate to change the link value on every report. Using custom
assemblies to keep such common references looks like too much overhead. Are
there any other global report configuration options I'm missing?
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Regards,
Dmitry DuginovHello Dmitry,
You could do this in the VS.NET 2005 IDE.
Click the Edit -> Find and Replace -> Replace in Files.
Type the http://testingserver/app in the Find what section, and type
http://production/app in the Replace with section.
Then, click the Find options and type *.rdl in the Look at these file types.
And then, you could click replace all button and all the files in your
solutionn will be modified.
Sincerely,
Wei Lu
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rights.)|||Sorry, but this "approach" just doesn't sound right. It's
"hardcode-change-redeploy". How it's better than "hardcode-change-recomplie"
for regular applications? It's not; that's why we are always trying to keep
some variables in config files: to change them, not the source code...
D.
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> You could do this in the VS.NET 2005 IDE.
> Click the Edit -> Find and Replace -> Replace in Files.
> Type the http://testingserver/app in the Find what section, and type
> http://production/app in the Replace with section.
> Then, click the Find options and type *.rdl in the Look at these file
types.
> And then, you could click replace all button and all the files in your
> solutionn will be modified.
> Sincerely,
> Wei Lu
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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>|||Hello Dmitry,
You could not do this in the Reporting Services Designer.
Since the RDL file is a XML format file, you could modify the xml file
before you deploy to the report server.
This is the only approach you could do in the reporting services.
Sincerely,
Wei Lu
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assistance.
Sincerely,
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