SSRS the definition of the report is invalid

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How can I resolve the below error message that I receive when I try to deploy my report to our our Reporting Server using BIDS   Message      Error   The definition of the report   OrderAnalysis  is invalid    Report Element     lt Report xmlns rd  http   schemas microsoft com SQLServer reporting reportdesigner  xmlns cl  http   schemas microsoft com sqlserver reporting 2010 01 componentdefinition  xmlns  http   schemas microsoft com sqlserver reporting 2010 01 reportdefinition  gt

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I was getting this error and tried most of the suggestions here  Finally I did a  Clean  on the report project and tried again  It finally worked

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The report definition is not valid or supported by this version of Reporting Services  This could be the result of publishing a report definition of a later version of Reporting Services  or that the report definition contains XML that is not well-formed or the XML is not valid based on the Report Definition schema    I got this error when I used ReportSync to upload some  rdl files to SQL Server Report Services  In my case  the issue was that these  rdl files had some Text Box containing characters like          Em dash        En dash  characters  etc  When uploading  rdl files using ReportSync  I had to encode these characters   amp copy    amp mdash    amp ndash   etc   and use Placeholder Properties to set the Markup type to HTML in order to get rid of this error    I wouldn t get this error If I manually uploaded each of the  rdl files one-by-one using SQL Server Reporting Services  But I have a lot of  rdl files and uploading each one individually would be time-consuming  which is why I use ReportSync to mass upload all  rdl files   Sorry  if my answer doesn t seem relevant  but I hope this helps anyone else getting this error message when dealing with SSRS  rdl files

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I got this error on a report I copied from another project and changed the data source  I solved it by opening the properties of my dataset  going to the Parameters section  and literally just reselecting all the parameters in the right column  like I just clicked the dropdown and selected the same column  Then I hit preview  and it worked

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I just ran into this issue as well   There s an option to  refresh fields   which I found useful   What I didn t find intuitive at first was that one has to enter values used to execute the query in such a fashion as to refresh the fields   Once I figured this out  and refreshed the fields - things worked   The data sets and the shared dataset that s being called have to correlate

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This occurred for me due to changing the names of certain dataset fields within BIDS that were being referenced by parameters  I forgot to go into the parameters and reassign a default value  the default value of the parameter didn t automatically change to the newly renamed dataset field  Instead

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I found the problem to this    due to a incorrect failed reference in  rdl to data conns etc  Also found that BIDS wasn t happy about having spaces in some of the project report filenames    so anyone facing this issue make sure you have no spaces in your naming and check your rdl files  connections  everything for failed out of date references   Visual Studio seems crap at keeping all of it s references up to date    god forbid you have to rename anything

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I just had this same problem during a SSRS development of a Custom Report for MS CRM Dynamics 2011    The reason because it occurred is because I am using some Hidden Parameters and for some of them I forget to give a default value    So  because of I have few time to finish the report I forget to  put the default value for some Parameters and I risked to lost more time to fix it    Luckily I found it very fast because the error shows the textbox and the paragraph with the first wrong parameter but it didn t shows the name of the parameter     I cannot post the image of the error because this website don t allows me   In general during SSRS developments it s very important to remember  - To put the report parameters in the correct sequence  the referred ones for first es  parameters inherited from master report or parameters essentials for sub-datasets  - To assign a default value to the Hide and Internal Parameters

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A very cryptic message for what my issue was   I had changed the names of the parameters  but did not update these names in the dataset

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I had simply changed the capitalization of ONE character in one of my report parameters and could no longer deploy  Changing the single character back to uppercase allowed me to redeploy  Remarkable

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I just received this obscure message when trying to deploy a report from BIDS   After a little hunting I found a more descriptive error by going into the Preview window

[sql-server] SSRS the definition of the report is invalid

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