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Downgrade SSRS from 2016 to 2008

We have 2 environments at work one for SSRS 2016 and another for 2008

mistakenly I open one of 2008 reports in VS2016 now I cannot open it in 2008

how can I downgrade an SSRS report opened in 2016 back to 2008?

Solution

  • I managed to do that

    1- change the 

    <Report xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2016/01/reportdefinition

    to 

    <Report xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition

    2- Remove <ReportSections> Tag ( not the inner tags, just the parent tag)

    3- Remove <ReportSection> Tag which will be a child for point number 2 ( again not the inner tags, just the parent tag)

    4- Remove <ReportParametersLayout> tag and all its children.

    5- Remove <GridLayoutDefinition> tag and all its children.