How to remove or disable the comment button on the SSRS Reports for 2019

Question

I have restored/migrated the 2016 Report Server to 2019 Report Server. When we were doing some testing on the reports we noticed that there is a comment button on the upper right corner which was not there on the 2016 version. I have looked at the configuration and I did not see any option on how to disable or remove this. Would anyone knows how to remove this button?

Answer 1

Hi @MC

By default, comments are allowed for each security role. But you can disable comments individually by editing the tasks in your role assignment.

For example, my item-level role is "Content Manager", and when I uncheck "Comment on reports" in the task, then when I view the report, the "Comments" button disappears.

For more details, you can refer to these links:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/report-server/add-comments#permissions

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/security/tasks-and-permissions-item-level-tasks?view=sql-server-ver16

Best regards,

Aniya

Answer 2

here is the snippet of the Report with the comment button that would like to be disabled