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The RDL Cookbook
Recipes for SSRS and Power BI Paginated Reports
This book is 100% completeLast updated on 2026-09-13
35 recipes for the SSRS and Power BI paginated report traps that waste afternoons, every one deployed and rendered on a live server first.
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Every SSRS developer has lost an afternoon to a report that deploys clean and then renders blank, or throws an error the designer never warned about. The RDL Cookbook is the field guide to those traps.
Inside are 35 recipes and the silent failures behind them: the page-number-in-body myth, bare-zero units, NULL parameters that quietly kill a report's defaults, multi-value and cascading parameters that actually run, charts and subreports and PDF fonts, and the export quirks that only surface in production. Every one was deployed and rendered on a live SSRS 2022 server before it made the page. No theory. The exact XML, the exact server error, the exact fix.
Written for the people working below the designer: generating RDL from code or AI, fixing what the designer produced or cannot do, and running reports at scale in source control. The same RDL format powers Power BI and Fabric Paginated Reports, so the recipes carry forward, and a dedicated chapter maps what actually breaks when you migrate an SSRS report to the Power BI service.
55 pages, PDF. The sample XML is printed in the book and catalogued in Appendix E. The runnable .rdl files, the validator and the generator are the companion Tools + Asset Pack, available with the book at robcotek.com/rdl/.
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Rob Joseph
Rob Joseph writes the RobCoTek cookbooks: troubleshooting guides for SSRS and Power BI paginated reports, Cognos Analytics and JasperReports, where every recipe is reproduced on a live server or the real library before it is written down. Rob Joseph has a 20+ years career working in reporting and business intelligence and is based in Las Vegas. robcotek.com
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