Reporting Services Content Type Names – Wrong Display Names

If you have upgraded from SharePoint 2010 to 2013, and find that the Content Type titles look a bit odd for Reporting Services content types, you may want to change those to something more familiar.  There is a relatively simple fix.

For example, they appear as:

$Resources:ReportServerContentTypeGroup;

   $Resources:DataSourceContentTypeName; Document Home
   $Resources:ReportBuilderContentTypeName; Document Home
   $Resources:ReportBuilderModelName; Document Home

Correct display:

Report Server Content Types

   Report Builder Model Document Home
   Report Builder Report Document Home
   Report Data Source Document Home

So for example, when to create a new report library, and you start adding content types for your reports, you may see something like this:

poorly-named-content-types

To fix this, go to “Site Actions”, “Site Settings.” Click on “Site Content Types.”

navigate-to-content-types

Click on the content type you need to update, and then click on “Name, description, and group”

content-type-settings

Change the title text for the three content types, and give it a group.  For instance:

Report Data Source
Report Builder Model
Report Builder Report

Group: Reporting Services

rename-content-type

Once you have done that, go back into your library, and delete out the previous content types, and re-add them.

updated-content-types

You should then get the correct names displayed when you need to add a new reporting file.

updated-titles

Posted in SharePoint 2013.

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