I may have an interesting conundrum and would appreciate your guidance.
So as you can see in my report image, I am creating a report that has multiple tabs (See 1). Each tab in area denoted by 1, is linked to a grouping rectangle denoted by 2 and 3.
Each rectangle may have 1 to 5 datasets and when we click the corresponding button up top, it navigates to the respect page by the rectangle definition, essentially I did this:
For Rectange,
Visibility expression: iff(parameter!.Tab=X, False, True) **Replace X with the Tab name up there)
For button, I assigned the tab value as the corresponding number.
When viewing the report in the standard view on a webpage, everything works as expected. By when I export the same report to excel, I get one tab, with all the data in one page.
So I attempted to follow the design instructions as described here:
How to get named excel sheets while exporting from SSRS
and here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAKslN6Ezuo&ab_channel=MandarGogate
but I don't get the same results. I get one page with all the results at the same time.
What I asking for help with is the following:
When exporting the report to excel, can we:
Assign a rectangle to its own excel tab
Name the respective excel tab
I would sincerely appreciate your help with this.
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I am building a label report that requires the user to input a Bulk Order Number that will generate multiple labels. When viewed in preview mode and on the report server, images on the report for postage and company logo appear on every instance of a label (report page).
However when exported to PDF, these images only render on the first label (page)
I considered this may not be an issue, as the user could print from the report server when accessing the report. This isn't the case, as when trying to print, report server creates a PDF for you to print from. There are no other options regarding printing other than page size and orientation, a PDF seems to be the only method from which you can print from.
The images I use have the visibility controlled by parameters, so you can select 1st or 2nd class postage, and choose to have the logo visible.
Each image also has the RepeatWith property set to the Tablix that contains order and address details.
When exported to word, the labels all appear as desired with postage and/or logo images on each instance. This is a step I would like to avoid, as it would be much nicer to have the user print directly from the report server, even if this still requires a printer friendly PDF to be created.
I have attached am image to show PDF output.
Any ideas how I can get these images to render on each label (page)?
EDIT
Image of design page
Based on the design view image you posted, it looks like the only thing repeating is your tablix containing the address information. The SSRS RepeatWith property doesn't seem to work well with .pdf exports so the workaround for this would be to drop everything into a single cell on a list object and grouping using the Order_No to repeat everything. This should remove the need to mess with RepeatWith and give you the desired results.
Some days ago I had to modify a SSRS Report in order to add another group. That Report contains a Chart which before this change was properly shown, but now, In the Web Report Viewer It looks ok.
But when exporting to Excel (xls), The Chart looks like to be compacted:
And the user has to expand at least the groups that are aligned with the chart in order to see It well.
I tried to create a Subreport with only the chart embedded, also tried to put the chart inside a rectangle but none of those solutions worked.
In Excel there is a property for the images to indicate not moving nor sizing with cells and It does the trick but I cannot see the property in the Chart stuff.
Do you know how to have the graph displayed properly without having to expand the groups?
I'm working with SSRS 2008 R2.
Just put a rectangle on your report then cut the chart, click in the rectangle and paste it in. That will stop it trying to align with the table.
It's important that you don't just drag the chart onto the rectangle. You must cut and paste it in.
Wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I currently have a report with 5 sub sections of data, each surrounded with a Rectangle.
I am wanting each sub section to appear on a new page and then be able to export to Excel and each section to appear on a new Tab.
I set Page Break / Break Location in each Rectangle to "Start" and label the PageName to what I want to call the Tab. When I run the report the 4 subsections show correctly but I am left with a blank page before I get the 5 section, but when I export it to Excel it appears correctly.
What I want is 5 pages in the report for each section and when exporting I want 5 tabs, can someone tell me where I am going wrong with setting the pagebreaks if that is indeed what I am doing incorrectly.
Thanks
As you are successfully exporting to Excel, but not the report viewer, this suggests your report and page sizes are not correctly set up on your 4th subsection.
When you have report elements that are slightly too large for your report page, the parts that 'overhang' will generate a new page of just the part that overhangs. This is often a very small amount of white space, so it looks like the page is completely blank. When you are exporting to formats such as excel, this does not matter so you correctly see the page breaks as new sheets.
To check whether this is the case, add borders and fills of different colours to all your rectangles and then run the report. On your 4th 'blank' page, if you see any colours or borders you will know which rectangle or report element is growing beyond its page.
I'm having a very rough time trying to group this SSRS chart correctly. It's easy as pie in Excel. So I'm wondering what I need to do in SSRS to duplicate it.
There are no hard errors to report other than the data is not being displayed the way I want it to be displayed.
One image shows the Chart Data I am passing into the chart, the other shows the visual appearance.
The final image is taken from Excell and shows what I am trying to do inside SSRS. The Excel chart displays it just about perfectly to what I am looking for.
The next two images are from excell. One displays just about perfectly how I am trying to get it to look on SSRS. The other one is how I am passing the data into SSRS.
Any idea how I need to group the data within the SSRS chart to display it the way I am looking for?
i don't think you can create the exact copy of that graph, but
try making the graph larger (taller) and also change vertical axis interval to 1
(right click on vertical axis go into properties>> axis options >> interval 1)
you can get something like this
I've inherited a pretty big report. The RDLC file is over 11,200 lines of XML.
In Visual Studio, it is easy to find the relevant element for a bound value in the raw xml (simple Find operation).
Is there a way to find that cell in the visual designer?
For example, if I know the cell has a TextBox with a name SupervisionLevelName61, is there a quick and easy way to locate that in the Visual Designer view of that RDLC file? Perhaps a keyboard shortcut which gives that cell focus?
Obviously, manually searching for that cell, given the name of the Textbox, takes far too long owing to the sheer size of the RDLC file.
Thanks
I found the solution:
At the top of the properties window you have a dropdown field. Within this dropdown field you see all the the elements within your current section (in my example I'm in the document body).
When you click an item, the design-view will focus the item like in the next screenshot (see the orange bracket).