I'm working on an SSRS matrix that draws information from an SQL database. Right now, the report works just fine on a small scale, but depending on parameters a report could return thousands of columns. I'd like to set up the matrix to split data into pages, with a maximum of 100 columns per page, both for ease of reading and performance.
I know how to do this with row groups in SSRS (=ceiling(rownumber(nothing)/100), but I can not find an equivalent for columns. Is there a way to do this?
There is no direct equivalent to create page breaks on columns. However, there are some ways you could work around this. If you're concerned about printing, you could adjust the page size both in the report and in whichever program you export to. Besides that, I'm not sure why you would want to break it up in the first place.
Another option would be to create a calculated field similar to the row number that segments the data into groups of 100 columns in the SQL and then use a row page break on that. So you would have the first 100 columns on one page and the next 100 on the next page and so on. However, if a row has attributes in many of those columns, the output may be difficult to interpret as the data for each row is broken out onto multiple pages.
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I have a process that outputs multiple instances of the same report. Something like packing-slips for instance. Right now it is relatively slow because the whole process is done for each iteration. Creating the data calling the ssrs report, output it clean-up the report instance and data and start again. It has a lot of overhead and unnecessary repetition.
An idea i have is to create all the data beforehand and add a document number to the dataset so to differentiate between documents. And call the ssrs report 1 time to output all the documents contained in 1 big document. So all the documents separate with their own header and footer but created in 1 go and in 1 file.
The thing i am looking for is to iterate on document level.
Is something like this possible with ssrs?
I have been googling and is it something i could solve with sub reports?
Yes, you can do this with SSRS. The way I usually go about this style of a report is to first create a table with a single cell in it. Set the row to be grouped by document ID. Set the group to page break between instances. Now place a large rectangle inside the cell. Place all the elements you want to have on each page inside the rectangle. Note that you would not use actual headers and footers, just textboxes, tables, etc. No sub-reports needed.
Now when you run the report, you will get one copy of the entire layout per page and each page is naturally filtered to the containing document ID. Since you are letting the report split up the data for you, you can let your dataset be one large query instead of many smaller ones. This will drastically improve your efficiency.
I'm trying to write a report that reports based on the time of day (shift) and the day itself. I'm using three columns in the report, which I set in the reports properties without issue.
The issue that I am encountering is that after every day, and every shift, I must start a new page. So I put in a page break after each event, but all that I get is a column break.
How can this be circumvented to get an actual page break and not a column break? Why would they make it a column break to begin with?
I am using Visual Studio 2008.
Thanks!
You should look into using the Lists container in SSRS, it allows you to easily group by fields of your choice and then break in between each group. It is a common choice for reports that require one page per group, with data presented for each group. Inside your list container you'll be able to add a matrix or table to represent your data, in addition to any text boxes or other objects you need displayed on a per group basis. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239330.aspx
One of our SSRS 2005 reports would time out when executed at the "All" level (was returning upwards of 80K records), so I added a group to the table whose sole purpose was to force a page break after every 500 records. I found the grouping in another post. It looks like this:
=IIF(Fields!ShowPageBreaks.Value = 1, Floor((RowNumber(Nothing) - 1) / 500), Nothing)
The problem is that the user sort no longer works correctly. E.g., "A"s show up at the top of multiple pages. I haven't been able to find any pattern in how SSRS decides to perform the sort. I've tried playing around with the Sort Scope and the Sort Target, like setting one to the Table and one the other to the Group, both to the Table, one or the other to nothing, etc and nothing seems to work.
Has anyone found a solution to a problem like this?
The sorting is happening within each group, aka, "working as intended." You're creating a somewhat arbitrary and random set of record groups based on row position in an un-ordered set.
You need to find a way to sort properly (in the SQL?) prior to applying any sort of grouping, or use a less random means of paging.
I am having issues recreating an old report with SSRS. The original report would pull about 5-6 records from SQL, and then have a corresponding 2 page report for each record. This would be easy if I could just create an individual report for each record, which is possible, but is not what is being asked of me.
I need to be able to have 2 pages for each record I return. For example:
Page 1 will have a different table than page 2 for the same record and will be view-able as:
record 1:
page 1,2
record 2:
page 3,4
record 3:
page 5,6
No grouping is necessary for records. They just need multiple pages to repeat.
Someone I work with suggested a sub-report, but I'm not sure how that would work.
I use the report builder to create reports.
Thanks for any help. I will gladly clarify if necessary.
The nature of SSRS is that it grows based on whatever data is available when it is run. In order to force it to take up two pages per record, you'll need to set a placeholder. One way to do that is to have a table that spans two pages. Make sure the "CanShrink" property is set to False for the cells in at least one of the columns. You can remove the borders to make the column invisible if the length of the report varies.
Next, you can add columns as needed for your other report data. It doesn't really matter if you want to use a subreport or not, either way will work.
I'm using VS2005 to create my reports.
I have a matrix report that works beatifully. I have country going down on the left hand side (row group called "matrix1_country_name") and data going across for 2 column groups, product_node and month (column groups "matrix1_Node" and "matrix1_calendar_month_name" respectively)
The only thing I want to improve is that this report will always show 5 year/60 months of data, and with multiple nodes I'd rather have each node be on its own page (Ideally I'd love to have it on the same page but in the rows just below to first node, but I'm not sure that's even possible).
I've seen numerous responses on these boards about putting in page breaks on column groups, but I can't seem to find how to do that in VS2005. The examples I've read that can do that seem to have a different interface so I'm guessing they aren't in VS2005.
Does VS2005 allow you to add page breaks after each group item and I'm just missing it? Or is there a trick I can do to get that to happen? I've also read about nestin matrix reports in list reports but that seems more complicated than doing the page break on the column group, so I'd rather do the easiest solution if I can.
Ah, I see pagebreaks are ignored on column_groups. Well I guess I'll try one of these workarounds.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/ea9d795b-8d17-41d2-a1d7-a4069ebb4539