Reporting Services - Exporting reports

I keep getting asked how to get a report off a report server. It is not very intuitive but here is a comppilition various email I have had to write.

Exporting the report
This describes how to export report server reports from one server to another and/or how to export the source code of existing reports
1. Go to the folder with the existing report you wish to export and click on the “Show Details” button.
2. Click on the Edit Properties for the report
3. Click on the Edit link under the Report Definition sub heading
4. Choose the Save option – this will export the report in rdl format

Import Directly of Extract and Build the code
At this point you can go to Reporting Services 2005 and import the rdl file directly or else you can rebuild the report in Visual Studio so that you will have access to the source for modifications.

Import Directly
1. Open SQL Server 2005 Management Studio
2. Choose Reporting Services as the server type and log onto the server you want to upload the report to
3. Move to the directory to import the file to
4. Right click -> Import file – choose the .rdl file exported previously
5. Set up appropriate data sources and permissions using the Report Manager Web interface
Extract and Build the Code
1. Open either:
a. SQL Server Business Intelligence Dev Studio (Programs->Microsoft SQL Server 2005 ->)
b. MS Visual Studio 2005 (Programs-> MS Visual Studio 2005 ->)
2. File->New->Project->Report Server Project
3. Name the project the same as the original