Continuation of a prior unanswered thread: Can anyone answer Dana's Question #1: 1. Should I be able to open my SSRS project file in 2008 when it was created in 2012? i.e., is it backwards compatible? Are there certain new features in 2012 that shouldn't be used if the report is going to be deployed on 2008? Thanks!A. Wolf

Hi There Thanks for your posting. If you are talking about SSRS 2008 R2 then answer is yes Thanks for your posting. You might be right there are lot of features which has been there are some features which is enhance in SSRS 2012 for example Power View, a feature of SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition, is an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience. Reporting Services data alerts are a data-driven alerting solution that informs you about changes in report data that are of interest to you, and at a relevant time The Reporting Services Word rendering extension, new in SQL Server 2012, renders a report as a Word document that is compatible with Microsoft Word 2007-2010 as well as Microsoft Word 2003 The Reporting Services Excel rendering extension, new in SQL Server 2012, renders a report as an Excel document that is compatible with Microsoft Excel 2007-2010 as well as Microsoft Excel 2003 If you have any question please do ask Many thanks Syed Qazafi Anjum

Thanks very much!!A. Wolf