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SSRS Deployment complaining about path length when my path is short

I am attempting to deploy my SSRS solution. I have set the "TargetReportFolder" property of my project to "Reports"

When I right-click and select "Deploy", I get the following error:

The path of the item '/Reports' is not valid. The full path must be less than 260 characters long; other restrictions apply. If the report server is in native mode, the path must start with slash.

Obviously my path is less than 260 characters long. I've tried setting my TargetReportFolder property to "/Reports", to the name of my project, and to the name of my project with a slash at the beginning - all give the same error.

I don't understand this deployment process very well. Can someone help me understand?

(I also feel like this may not be on topic, but was encouraged by the presence of an SSRS tag)

Solution

  • My problem was that I didn't understand how Reporting Services works with SharePoint. My comment above is incorrect, I did need to deploy, but I had the wrong parameters for my properties. This page helped me:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb283155.aspx

    The key takeaways from this article are:

    1. All Target*Folder properties need to be either a URL to a document library, or empty
    2. If they are empty, they take the value of TargetReportFolder, which can't be empty and must be a URL to a document library
    3. TargetServerURL needs to be the URL of the site collection in SharePoint