Move, copy and clone reports in Report Server

This section explains how to move, copy, and clone reports in the Report Designer directly from Bold Reports® On-Premise. Reports can be moved, copied, or cloned from one category to another in Bold Reports® On-Premise.

Note: Starting v6.1, We plan to deprecate the feature of cloning reports. Please refer to this section for more information.

Move Report

  1. Click on the Move option in the context menu. Move Report in context menu

  2. Move the Report from one category to another. Move Reports

Copy Report

  1. Click on the Copy option in the context menu. Move Report in context menu

  2. Select the site type where the report should be copied by choosing either Internal Site or External Site. Select site type for copying report

  3. Copy the Report from one category to another. Copy Reports

    To create a new category while copying a report, click the + button next to the Category field. Create category from copy report dialog Create new category dialog

    Note: When multiple tenants are selected, the Category list and the option to create a new category are not displayed. In this case, enter the category name manually. If the specified category already exists in the selected tenants, the reports are copied to that category. If the category does not exist, a new category is created automatically in the selected tenants.

    Note: When the Overwrite option is enabled, any existing report, dataset, or data source with the same name in the target site is replaced. This may affect other reports that depend on the existing dataset or data source in the target site.

  4. Copy the report to one or more tenants by selecting the required tenants from the Tenant list. Copy Report to Tenant

  5. You can change the dataset or datasource and save the copy with the Advanced option if the report is designed using a shared dataset or datasource. Copy Report Advanced Option Select Dataset

Breaking changes from v6.x

  • We plan to deprecate cloning reports in upcoming releases.

  • Initially, we removed the Clone option in the Report Server. Context Menu

    The existing cloned reports will remain available in the sites.

  • If you still need to clone the reports, you can enable the clone option by setting the <EnableClone> node to true in Settings -> Configuration -> reporting/config.xml.
    <EnableClone>true</EnableClone>. Enable Clone Node

  • After enabling the node, you can find the option to clone and be able to clone the reports. Clone Option