Downgrade SSRS from 2016 to 2008

Question

We have 2 environments at work one for SSRS 2016 and another for 2008

mistakenly I open one of 2008 reports in VS2016 now I cannot open it in 2008

how can I downgrade an SSRS report opened in 2016 back to 2008?

Answer 1

I managed to do that

1- change the

<Report xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2016/01/reportdefinition

to

<Report xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition

2- Remove <ReportSections> Tag ( not the inner tags, just the parent tag)

3- Remove <ReportSection> Tag which will be a child for point number 2 ( again not the inner tags, just the parent tag)

4- Remove <ReportParametersLayout> tag and all its children.

5- Remove <GridLayoutDefinition> tag and all its children.