Modifying Skins to style your reports

Skins in RSinteract allow you to change the default fonts, colours and borders of your reports. You can also add an image to the header area.

As a user you can select an existing skin at any time: open your report, click details on the left and select a skin.

As an administrator you can modify the built in skins to your liking:

• Copy one of the existing files from:
  • C:\Program Files\ICS\RSinteract\Website\Setup\Skins
• See BlueLogo.xml for an example of placing a logo on a report
• Edit the XML (there’s no formal documentation to this but the XML should be self-explanatory).
• Upload to Home > RSinteract > Skins in reporting services.
• Ensure any new gifs are in placed in:
  • C:\Program Files\ICS\RSinteract\Website\Images\
• Restart RSinteract to reload the skins
  • You can reset IIS or use notepad to change the date modified on:
    • C:\Program Files\ICS\RSinteract\Website\web.config.
• Open your report, click details on the left and select your skin. Click OK.
• If you see a red-X/missing image on your report you may need to give Reporting Services read access to the images folder. Reporting Services can run as Local Service, Network Service, Local System or a specified execution account – use the Reporting  Services Configuration Manager to find out which.
• Click Save to commit your changes for future users of the report.
• You can specify the default skin with the DefaultSkin setting in:
  • C:\Program Files\ICS\RSinteract\Website\web.config

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