How to find the number of text that can hold in a text box For example if my text box size is width-5inches and height-1 inch. We need to get how many characters it can hold
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I've been searching and searching for an answer to my question, but I can't seem to find anything. Does anyone know of a way to wrap/float text around a chart or image in SSRS? I was hoping for some kind of option similar to the blue one below in Word, but no luck there:
I found the following post, which has a good example image of what I'm looking for, but doesn't have any helpful answers (I'm not using Crystal Reports, I'm using BIDS SSRS through Visual Studio 2015).
Crystal report (or SSRS) flowing text around image
I've tried the following:
Overlaying a text box on top of the image (rendering shoves the image below the text)
Trying to find or create a mad scientist algorithm that can split the text after a certain number of characters, but not in the middle of a word, chop off the rest, and continue the rest of the text in a separate textbox under the image (not a mad scientist, so no luck)
Thanks for any tips!
There's no built in way to do this in SSRS.
Someone wrote a function that determines how many pixels are in a given text string.
Truncate textbox content with ellipsis in SSRS
Public Function TextWidth(str As String) AS Double
'Returns the width, in pixels, of a string, assuming Tahoma size 8.
Dim size As System.Drawing.SizeF
Dim font As New system.Drawing.Font("Tahoma", 8)
size = System.Windows.Forms.TextRenderer.MeasureText(str, font)
TextWidth = size.Width
End Function
You may be able to use this to figure out where to make a break in the first text box and spill the rest to the second. You'd just need to do testing to figure out how many pixels of text your first text box holds.
Once you figure out how many pixels would fit (I would just fill the first text box with text then use the function to see how many pixels that text is), change the other TextCap function to return either the first or second part at the pixel split. You could add an Argument in the function to indicate whether to return the first or second part of the text. Then use the function in the first text box to return the first part and the second part in the second text box.
It's a bit of work but seems feasible. It depends on how bad you want it and how much time you have.
I am new to VB6 development (I understand it is pretty outdated. But maintaining legacy code).
My question is - is it possible to dynamically adjust the width of a Tab based on it's Caption length (i.e. dynamically flexing the width of the tab)?
Example: My English text for a tab contains 10 characters, but French equivalent text contains like 15-20 characters. Would it be possible to accommodate text in the tab without having empty spaces on either sides of the text in both English and French?
Right click on the ssTab control and select properties. Under the General tab, select ssStylePropertyPage from the Style: drop down and NOT ssStyleTabbedDialog.
This will automatically adjust the size of the caption of all tabs based on the length of their captions.
The TabMaxWidth property is ignored when this is selected.
Quarterly Averages from text box control sources
I have formulas under the Rate Text boxes (See image above) and I would like all three results averaged for the quarter. This is what I have come up with:
=Avg("[Forms]![collection_attrition]![jan2016_rate],[Forms]![collection_attrition]![feb2016_rate],[Forms]![collection_attrition]![mar2016_rate]/3")
I am still receiving an error?
I have a report in Access that sums up some fields in two text boxes. Now, I need to sum up the two formula text boxes on a new text box and
=Sum("FormulatxtBoxNameA]*3")+Sum("[FormulatxtBoxNameB]*1")
does not work. I get "Error". I have tried several ways of typing this formula and I just cannot gain any ground. Any suggestions?
I created a simple report in Access. One line per record (using the default tabular format with Report Wizard). However, one text field is sometimes too long and is truncated when one record is displayed on only one line.
How do I tell Access that when the text field is too long, display it (and the record) in more than one line as needed so that the complete text is shown? Thanks.
More info: I tried to increase the height of the text field, but then every record in the report had its height increased whether needed or not. This wasn't what I wanted.
Set the CanGrow property of the text field to True.
This will increase the field height only in the lines where it's really necessary.
Quoted from MS Office Support Documentation [Refer the part Change the field size of a text field]
Right-click the table that contains the field that you want to
change, and then click Design View.
In the table design grid, select the field for which you want to
change the field size.
In the Field Properties pane, on the General tab, enter the new
field size in the Field Size property. You can enter a value from 1
to 255. This number specifies the maximum number of characters that
each value can have. For larger text fields, use the Memo data type.