Question

Is it possible to get the files for a deployed reports ON SSRS 2005?

On of our developers deployed them to the Reporting Server, but didn’t commited his changes to SVN. Now we are in an inconsistent state and we also can’t find the files he created.

Answer 1

In Report Manager (usually the URL ends with /Reports or /Reports_instanceName ) You can look at the details of reports. The Edit button will allow you to download the .rdl definition files.

From
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms156032(v=sql.90).aspx

In the Report Definition section, click Edit to extract a copy of the report definition. Modifications that you make locally to the report definition are not saved on the report server.

(I should have also noted, the interface and the button name change in SSRS 2008, so these instructions are specific to SSRS 2005.)