I have a report with a tablix in it. I just need to stay the tablix in a fixed position and shouldn't push down other elements down it. If say there are 4 rows which will be visible in the specified space and if more then it should not be visible and shouldn't push down other elements.
I tried several ways to prevent
Added tablix inside a rectangle(act as a container) so if it grouped it
will not push down other elements (didn't work)
Enable consume white space in report=true (didn't work)
Keep items together property is set to true in rectangle (didn't work)
Is there any other way to not to pushdown elements in the report even if the tablix gives more rows. It should only show the rows in the mentioned size.
Edit : 1 (7/28/2018)
All the three elements below is pushed down if the table has more rows.
Either I have to fit the rows in this table by reducing the size automatically if possible or It should not push down the elements.
Also if the tablix has less row the elements will move up. I just need to keep the elements (Expr) should stay in the same position.
You still didn't post your design but anyway, here is what I think you want.
The basic idea to to set the area you want you table to cover by using a rectangle of the same size. Then we will reduce the row heights within reason as the number of rows in the table increases. As you cannot directly change a row height, we can get round this by setting the row height to be very small and adjusting the font, as long as the can grow option is on the cells will grow to fit the font size, giving the effect of changing the row height.
Basic steps.
Create your report and add a rectangle that is the maximum size you want your table to be. In my example it's 38mm high.
Create a table inside the rectangle. I find this easier to create it outside then cut and paste it inside, simply dragging it over the rectangle will not work.
Position your additional text boxes, under the rectangle as desired. Set 'Consume Container WhiteSpace' on in the report properties.
Next we need to decide what the maximum and minimum font sizes are that acceptable. In this basic example I only use 3 sizes, 10pt, 12pt and 14pt. If you want to use more then you could write an expression to scale the fonts more accurately but you get the idea.
You'll need to determine the maximum number of rows you can fit into the rectangle when the minimum font size is used, in my case it's 5 rows at 10pt font. Your query will need to take this number into account and never return more rows than this.
On the table, the click row selector for the detail row (this basically selects all the cells in the row). Next, change the font size property to an expression. In this simple example I used this.
=SWITCH(
Parameters!topx.Value <3 , "14pt",
Parameters!topx.Value <5 , "12pt",
True, "10pt"
)
Next set the row height, choose any cell on the row and set the height to something small, I used 4mm but it doesn't matter as long as its' smaller then you will ever show.
In my example, for testing I added a 'topx' parameter and filtered the dataset using this, but this is only for testing.
The final design looked like this. I added a background colour to the rectangle so you can see how it remains static until it's filled.
Then running with various rows looks like this
finally, only if I exceed my maximum (5 rows in this case) does the text below move down.
You could include a column (let's call it RowNumber) in your dataset that shows the row number of the data. Then in your Tablix filter, you can set the filter to show only values from that "RowNumber" column that are less than or equal to the number of rows you want to display in the tablix.
You can use the same concept to limit the number of rows returned in your query, but without knowing how you are getting the data, it is not possible to help with that.
If you want your report to be that static, why not take a screenshot of the data and include that as an image in your report?
No serious reporting tool will "ignore" records that you pass to it using a Dataset, so that's the place where you will have to "ignore" all unwanted data yourself. Restrict the data in the Dataset to only 4 rows (maybe using SELECT TOP 4 ...).
I note there's a way to automatically set column width with autoResizeColumn() but there doesn't appear to be a comparable way to automatically set row height to match the height displayed by setWrap()'d text. How would I script this to determine the height of a given wrapped cell so that I can use it with setRowHeight()? Is there a way to see how the string value of a cell wraps? I believe getRowHeight() returns the "set" height, not the displayed height.
I'm trying to do something comparable to this for Excel: http://excelribbon.tips.net/T010735_Automatic_Row_Height_for_Wrapped_Text.html
In fact, the problem manifests itself when sheets are exported as Excel.
This is really a bug in the export conversion, not something that should be none in a script. That said, it might be possible to approximately determine the row hight by looking at the contents of the row, the font size, and column width, and wrap policy. Won't give you an exact hight, but should be able to get close enough. If you size conservatively, worse case is you may have an extra line of empty space.
There are some potential issues that you might have to work around in doing so (see https://code.google.com/p/google-apps-script-issues/issues/detail?id=4187)
I'm using the chosen script by harvest, and on a couple of pages I'm using a Multiple Select. When you have selected some options, the select box grows in height. The only issue is that I have this is in a table cell which doesn't grow with it :/
Unfortunately the code is in a locked site and it's not easy to duplicate for a demo, but if you go to the chosen site (linked above) and try one of the multi selects you'll see how it grows when selecting multiple items.
I've tried to put it in a div in the table cell and cleared it, but it still goes over the cell.
I've also tried inline-block, and height:auto on the cell, but nothing :(
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I could make the cell height grow with the content?
Here's a screenshot:
I always encounter this issue when I'm using Bootstrap for tables.
It seems Bootstrap automatically makes all columns equal width. The issue is something like an email address column gets cut off while a column with just a single digit has more than enough room.
Is there a simple way to get around this (without hacking each individual column?
I've found a very strange behavior of a HTML table, where the width allocation of the cells depends on the count of rows. If I have 2 rows the cells have all the same width but when I insert another row the first column expands a little and the second column is narrower than the others.
I have uploaded an example on fiddle.
You can see this behavior when you delete the comment around the third row in the HTML.
Where does this behavior come from?
Table cells will expand to the content unless they have a fixed width. In your example you have table inside tables. Tables tend to have default values such as padding and cell spacing.
To get around this you can use a reset style sheet and modify the CSS of the table and its cells to your choosing
You may need to also perform CSS declarations such as collapsing borders if you really want it to be pixel perfect.
actually columns expands and oontract on the base of contents inside the header or cells
DEMO:http://jsfiddle.net/aPPAL/1/
see the results.