I need to make updates to several SSRS reports. The problem is, these were originally developed on another developer's local computer. He quit suddenly and the SSRS project was copied to a shared drive by a manager. The original computer with the original SSRS project is no longer available.
I can launch the project, but when I try to open any of the rdls for editing I get an error message: "Could not find part of the path 'C:\Users\jsmith\Downloads\upload\3 Site Kits On Time.rdl'." Clearly, it's looking for files on the other programmer's C drive, which no longer exists.
Is there a way to get the rdls to open in the new location? The new path would be \\DataMgt\SSRSPackages\CTReports.
This is SSRS 2008. There is no version control (don't ask).
(Just to make this a formal answer as it seems to have worked fort the question setter...)
You are correct in identifying that the project file is looking for a specific file in a specific location.
To get around this you can create a new SSRS project in Visual studio, and then add all the rdls to those new project by inserting them to the new project by right-clicking the project, selecting 'Add' then 'Existing item...' and choosing the report files.