Normally, in an SSRS textbox.
If the amount of content takes up too much space it will move to the next line to display all of the contents of the textbox
My desired case:
If the amount of content takes up too much space it will truncate the rest of the content
Is there a way too accomplish this in SSRS?
Yes there is. Go to the properties of the object and set Can Grow to false
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I have some text I want to keep "atomic" within a report header. The text in question is the "Period Ending Date: 1/15/1998". It is OK if that block of text wraps down below, but I would like to keep the whole block of text together on one line. This has to be dynamic however, as the text will grow and shrink dynamically--sometimes the server and database and company name will be short and everything fits on one row, sometimes long even the database name will need to wrap.
And this is how I have it defined in the expression
Is keeping it "atomic" possible?
As the comments say you basically have two options, either make the text box wide enough to fit any possible combination of company, server, database and end date that could occur - you can use max(len([your fields])) in SQL to determine the maximum possible characters and then figure out the width from your font information - or you can put the separate chunks of information into separate text boxes and arrange them however is most aesthetically pleasing to you. Personally I'd have a company name box on one line, the Server and database beneath it and the end date beneath that. Up to your preference though obviously.
#Jeff.Clark, I guess you need to rethink the design. I agree with #Viking's comment. As far as i know, what you are trying to achieve is not possible in SSRS (keeping the Can Grow = False) and want to wrap it on the field level not the word level. I tried using it in the placeholder but it is splitting the field.
However, if your requirements are very critical and no matter what you have to do it in this way then i think you can achieve it by determining maximum characters the cell can accommodate in one line and then subtracting the SUM of LENGTH of the the fields+ the text(ex: "Totals per payroll period") and find out a position in your string to insert VBCRLF so the rest of the data will go to next line. Without the original expression i will not be able to provide the accurate updated expression but it will be nested IIFs to get the position of VBCRLF. I personally do not prefer this method because it will take lot of processing on the report design level and can affect the overall performance of the report as well as not very pretty when it comes to the maintenance of the report.
First, my English is not very good.
Do you know if there is a way to make grow vertically and specific record of a continuous form while keeping the rest of records from growing? For example on reports if I set a textBox "letGrow" property to true, if the text inside that control occupies various lines the control grows, but just on that specific record. I would like similar behavior on forms "normalView".
Thankyou
That is not an option. CanGrow is for reports only.
You can adjust height on the fly, but that will touch all records displayed.
I have an SSRS report which is being used to print to a dot matrix printer for shipping (paper has boxes that I need to print info into). It has a header including customer address, despatch address, date, order no. etc. Body has product, description, quantity, Footer has No. of Cases/Containers. Problem is if I have a customer with a long address etc. it screws up the formatting of the report. How do I create absolute fixed regions for printing? I would rather the customer's address was just truncated rather than screwing up the formatting of my report? Thanks!
Right click the text box, go to Text Box Properties. Untick "Allow height to increase". Drink beer in celebration.
not sure on the layout of your report so this might help if you dont want to truncate.
report has a property, ConsumeContainerWhitespace. by default its set to false, this means that when report items like textboxes grow they retain the whitespace and push everything else down.
set to true they will (yep you guessed it) consume the whitespace instead. preserving the position of other items.
though if there is no space for the textbox to grow into then the other answer provided offers the best solution
I'm trying to produce a pay check. I will allow the user to setup the position of the items according to their check style.
From my research, it seems that the position of text boxes in SSRS is static and not dynamic. There is no "expression" option for Top/Left. I thought a way to get around this might be to make the text boxes large and overlapping and then set the padding top/left based on expressions to the positions that user has selected. However, it seems that similar to HTML, the text boxes either float around the higher level text boxes or simply drop out of view.
This would be simple if there were a way to tell SSRS not to be concerned with the order of the text boxes and simply display them overlapping, however I don't feel that there is.
Given that, what other options to I have for dynamically positioning text boxes in an SSRS 2008 report? I'm moving right along with this project but I've hit this stumbling block.
SSRS gives you a lot of options for dynamic formatting but Size and Location are fixed. You cannot change this. Overlapping of textboxes does not work in the soft-break renderers like HTML and Excel but does work in hard-break renderers like PDF or TIFF. Have you tried your padding technique and output the report as PDF?
I'm not sure what are going to do in your report, But in similar cases I usually use Space character to position a text. For instance,
IIf(Len(Fields(YourColumn.valu)) > 10, Fields(YourColumn.valu), " ")
Note that you have to ensure it can implemented in your case or not. I'm not sure that it is helpful but as long as the location and width properties are fix this is the only option
Note 2 : I'm using Unbreakable Space character instead of simple Space so that SSRS render it without any problem
Using Access 2003. On a subreport I have arranged a row of text boxes that will be populated with dynamic data. (These will appear as column headers on a master report.) Due to report constraints, the text boxes are tall and somewhat thin; some incoming strings will be longer than other strings; strings are expected to wrap when necessary. Presently, each of these text boxes is bottom-aligned.
What I am looking for is a way to force the text in each of these boxes to be bottom-aligned, to grow upward as it were. As we know, Excel natively allows bottom alignment in a cell; I do not see that Access offers a similar capability. Any hints? A VBA technique maybe? Thanks.
TonBill,
You can use VBA to set TopMargin property of each textbox to a certain value; TopMargin will "move" text down towards the bottom. You will have to calculate each TopMargin based on how many characters including spaces fit in one line of each textbox. Not a great solution, but may work.
I don't think there is a configuration option in Access for bottom text alignment.
See this: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/35318427/how-can-i-bottom-align-te.aspx
Since its a report. Check out the CanGrow property
If you have the text bottom aligned, just set the CanGrow Property for all the textboxes, and the textbox will dynamically grow to fit the text in the report.
Here is some info on the CanGrow property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb242179.aspx