Question

I’m preparing a report in SQL Reporting Services 2012 and I want to show a variable number of charts based on the data I have.

So, the (simplified) data source looks like

ID Name    Group       Sales
=============================
1  apples   fruit        15
2  bananas  fruit        25
3  carrots  vegetable    10
4  brocolli vegetable    19
5  tuna     fish         15

For each group – show a graph based on the names and values:

• chart 1 – fruit sales
• chart 2 – vegetable sales
• chart 3 – fish sales
• and so on…

But I do not want to hard-code the group names – if a new group is added to the db, a new chart should pop-up in the report.

Answer 1

Create a table based on your dataset grouping on “Group” and then embed the chart in the table, SSRS should take care of the rest.