Performance Dashboard Errors

After installing Performance Dashboard, I receive the following variations of the following error message when I run reports :

The 'version_string' parameter is missing a value.

Anyone else seen this, and how did you fix the problem?

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I am getting the same error message

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.3042.00 (Intel X86) Feb 9 2007 22:47:07 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)

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How are you trying to run the reports? You need to open performance_dashboard_main.rdl - that's the starting point. The reports are all subreports you access from the main dashboard report.

-Sue

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I am also getting the "error during processing of 'version_string' report" Error even though we have service pack 2 and the latest hotfix on our 32 bit clustered SQL 2005 server (current build 9.0.3054)

I can "remote desktop" to the server and run the "performance_dashboard_main.rdl" in a local SSMS "custom report" view but when I start SSMS on my local workstation with full admin rights on the server, opening "Custom reports" and pointing to a shared network directory OR my local "D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\PerformanceDashboard" directory containing all the RDL files and I get the above error.

The session I connect to SQL server with has full admin rights and I can do all my normal SSMS activities with no problems .. except run the performance dashboard.

Many thanks for any suggestions on this one.

John

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Any resolution on this?

Thanks

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Still nothing and even Google doesnt seem to have much of any use.

Its a real pity as I can see it would be useful to have the performance dashboard working.

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I have a "Fix" for this one though I dont yet know teh consequence of it fully. Since the "version_string" was coming back with an invalid value I decided to see if I could either out in a valid version string or get rid of it completely.

The performance_dashboard_main.rdl is a XML file so I searched for and found

<ReportParameter Name="version_string">
<DataType>String</DataType>
<DefaultValue>
<Values>
<Value>="1.0 (" + FormatDateTime(CDate("Jan 9, 2007")) + ")"</Value>
</Values>
</DefaultValue>
<AllowBlank>true</AllowBlank>
<Prompt>version_string</Prompt>
<Hidden>true</Hidden>
</ReportParameter>

which I changed to several different values (as a new filename) until I just removed it as below

<ReportParameter Name="version_string">
<DataType>String</DataType>
<DefaultValue>
<Values>
<Value>=""</Value>
</Values>
</DefaultValue>
<AllowBlank>true</AllowBlank>
<Prompt>version_string</Prompt>
<Hidden>true</Hidden>
</ReportParameter>

and the renamed rdl file "performance_dashboard_new_main.rdl" seems to work.