I'm trying to visually link column chart categories so that a user doesn't have to guess what is included in a given group, just by the position of the category label. But I don't even know what to search for to get the formatting I'm after. I've grabbed a screenshot from the web. That red arrow is pointing to the formatting I am searching for. Anyone out there know what it's called or how to achieve this?
The red arrow indicates another level of Category Grouping.
They are a higher level grouping than the Monthee group. The A and B may refer to Quarters that the Months fall in.
You would add a second grouping to the charts Category Groups by clicking on the Plus sign next to Category Groups of the chart.
The Property to show the Grouping lines is the Major Tick Marks on the Horizontal Axis' Properties.
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I have an SSRS report with several columns - 3 of the columns had visibility set such that it could be toggled by a particular cell. The report was a single tablix with headings at the top and row groups set up below those headings. My toggle item was in the headings - i.e. outside any row groups. There are no column groups - I just want to be able to hide a few columns on demand. It worked fine but...
When a new requirement arose to throw a page within one of the groups, I had to move the headings such that they were within the highest level group. Since then I continue to get the error message:
"Toggle items must be text boxes that share the same scope as the hidden item or are in a scope that contains the hidden item, and cannot be contained within the current report item unless current grouping scope has a parent"
I have tried removing the toggle and starting again from scratch but I continue to get the message. I have also tried viewing the XML in case there is any stray toggle logic hanging around but it appears not. Any suggestions as to how I might resolve this would be greatly appreciated.
The best I could come up with is to add a new row at the very top of the tablix outside any groups and immediately above the headings (themselves within a group) and put the toggle textbox in that row. That seemed to do the trick (for Excel output anyway).
Why is it that a control that appears in the property list in a BIDS project is not represented in the corresponding .rdl file?
Let me step back a bit; I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to add items to an existing report, either via the XML (.rdl viewed as code) or on the design surface. I can click on a rectangle on the design surface and see a column row above it:
And if I click on the "pipe"-separated segements on that column heading row, I see "MatrixColumn4", "MatrixColumn3", "MatrixColumn2", and "MatrixColumn1" in the designer; for example, here's MatrixColumn3:
However, only one of these columns appears at a time in the Property list - if I select MatrixColumn3 on the design surface, MatrixColumn1, MatrixColumn2, and MatrixColumn4 are not there. The same holds true for selecting any of the others - it turns up temporarily in the Properties list but "hides" all the others:
Stranger yet, when I search the .rdl file (viewed as XML) for "MatrixColumn1" (or "2" or "3" or "4") they do not exist there. In fact, the only reference to "MatrixColumn" in the entire file is this:
<Matrix Name="matrix1">
<MatrixColumns>
<MatrixColumn>
<Width>1.67609in</Width>
</MatrixColumn>
</MatrixColumns>
. . .
This seems exceedingly bizarre - shouldn't there be four sets of <MatrixColumn></MatrixColumn> there?
I want to add another column heading, with a Textbox-as-label and a Textbox below that to display dynamic content, but how can I do it without adding another column heading?, or at least making room for this new column?
I can increase the width of the matrix ("matrix1") by dragging it or by increasing its Size.Width value, but its existing contents expand with it, giving me no room to add TextBoxes inside of it.
Maybe I'm approaching SSRS from a completely wrong mental angle, as I don't see much of a connection between what the report generates and what I see on the design surface and in the XML.
To add another column to a matrix right click the column header and Select Insert column. Then choose either inside group (left or right), or outside group (left or right).
A column created inside the group will repeat for every item in the column group
A column created outside the group will only appear the once to the left or right of the grouped columns.
Are you sure you are referring to a matrix (dynamic columns and rows) and not a tablix (dynamic number of rows only)?
The process for tablixes is the same as for matrixes as described above, just without the inside/outside group option.
Either method described above will include a new column with a single text box to label the column with, and another text box underneath to put the detail in.
You can also do this process by dragging a field from your dataset in the Report Data panel to the appropriate location in your existing table.
Please let me know if this helps, or if I've misunderstood your question and you require a different solution.
I come to you with a question on how I can create a simple flow chart like in the pictures below in SSRS. I have a query that returns rows with events, and a date column that I can use to organize these events in chronological order.
I have it all basically set up but I am running into a design problem. I have a tablix with two columns in a group for the box+arrow combination, with column visibility set up to hide the arrow if it reaches the last event. What I would like to happen is for the boxes to reach the end of the page (the rightmost side of the page, and then come down a short distance below that row of boxes and continue on the same page (Ex. B). What it's doing is reaching the end of the side of the page, and breaking to the next page, effectively creating a bunch of pages with only one row of boxes on each page. (Ex. A)
Ex. A: What it does:
Ex. B: What I want it to do (accidentally forgot to include the arrow on the middle rightmost box in the picture, the second and third rows are just continuations of the first obviously):
I would almost call it row wrapping but it's not exactly the same. To bring the problem away from my specific flow chart design, I want to make tablix columns wrap down directly below the table (not the content inside the columns, the actual columns themselves).
I've done some reading on column groupings and interactive page size. I don't really understand the column grouping manipulation, especially when trying to apply it to my situation, and the interactive page size doesn't seem to be what I am looking for either. Any help on this would be really appreciated!
I suggest you use a multi-column layout, e.g.
http://nederveld.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/how-to-do-a-column-layout-in-sql-reporting-services/
Each of your Box + Arrow pairs would go into each cell.
I'm a bit confused about your arrow requirement, you might need to use an expression based on RowNumber to hide the arrow in the last column.
I have a report which displays the area, a list of diagnoses for the area, how many diagnoses for each diagnosis, and a percentage. This works fine, however I want to choose and display the data for many areas.
Currently, I have one choice for the area, and it shows all the diagnoses for the chosen area in a table. Essentially, I want to make a list of this tables, so it can be repeated for as many areas as required.
I think that this can be performed by putting the table in a listbox, and setting the tablix to filter for each area, but if I try this, I get:
Error 1 [rsInvalidDetailDataGrouping] The tablix ‘Tablix1’ has a detail member
with inner members. Detail members can only contain static inner members.
It's hard to explain exactly what I need. At the moment, all the diagnoses are displayed, but they are all listed as being from the same area. I need a list of diagnoses from area 1, then a list from area 2, then area 3 etc. The percentages need to be the percentage from that area, currently they are the percentage of all areas.
What is the best way to do this?
Don't put the table in a list - just use grouping on the table.
Let's say you now want a multiple vaue parameter called #Areas to choose the areas and then print them all out, say separated by a page break. I assume you have something like a table for Diagnoses and a table DiagnosisItems for the items performed in a diagnosis. So your SQL looks something like this:
SELECT Diagnoses.Area, Diagnoses.DiagnosisDate, Diagnoses.Description,
COUNT(*) AS TotalDiagnoses
FROM Diagnoses
INNER JOIN DiagnosisItems ON Diagnoses.DiagnosisId = DiagnosisItems.DiagnosisId
WHERE Diagnoses.Area IN #Areas
GROUP BY Diagnoses.Area, Diagnoses.DiagnosisDate, Diagnoses.Description
ORDER BY Diagnoses.Area, Diagnoses.DiagnosisDate, Diagnoses.Description
Click on your table then right-click the grey handle that appears on the left hand side in the Detail row. Choose Add Group and group by Area. Add a group header and a group footer. In the table, put the Area in the group header and in the group footer put Area and the total diagnoses for that area:
=SUM(Fields!TotalDiagnoses.Value)
Now on your Detail row for the percentage you'll use an expression like this:
=Fields!TotalDiagnoses.Value / SUM(Fields!TotalDiagnoses.Value, "table1_Group1")
Right-click on the group handle, select Row Group-Group Properties-Page Breaks and check page breaks between each instance of a group.
I don't think you need to put a filter on the tablix. Just set the grouping on the list and add the tablix.
My SSRS report is using groups to divide the data in group. I would like to have a line separator at the last row of the group. I did hide the group footer and header since it gives me an extra row when render the report to excel, So the bordering of group header or footer for this is not working. I wanted to avoid the extra rows in excel. Is there any other way I can try to get this done?
Probably the most powerful thing about Reporting Services is the ability to use expressions for any object property. Couple this with the out-of-the-box Previous function which allows you to access the previous value of a field and you have a solution.
Select the entire Detail row. Expand the BorderStyle property and enter the following code for the Top property (assuming we want a line separating all the departments):
=IIF(Previous(Fields!Department.Value) <> Fields!Department.Value, "Solid", "None")
This compares the previous value of the Department field with the current value and if they are different, it makes the Top border of this detail row to be Solid.
While this puts a line at the top row of next group rather than the bottom row of the previous group, it is visually and functionally equivalent to what you are after with the benefit of being really easy to implement.