Is there a way to add sliders for each dataset in SSRS?
For instance if I had 3 datasets, I want to have each of them have it's own integrated window that I can set it's specific length and height containing it's own sliders to scroll up and down.
In other words, when running the report, there will be one main window with it's own side scrollbar/slider. Within that window, there are going to be 3 smaller window for each dataset with their own scrollbar?
As far as I am aware, SSRS will not do this out of the box.
SSRS is designed to build paginated reports so it will automatically expand containers to fit the contents and therefore not scroll bars will be generated.
I suspect you would have to build something to do this such as a wen page containing 4 'reports' each one in it's own frame. Alternatively PowerBI could probably do what you need but that might not be a viable option for your scenario.
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I understand that I can never exceed the width of a report body, but I have more report items than a (Design View) page can hold and I don't know what to do.
To clarify, what is currently on the Design View page correctly becomes a longer display view, and becomes multiple printed pages. Just what I want.
The problem is that I've run out of vertical design canvas and I don't know how to fix that.
Now that we've identified the PBI-Desktop tag was erroneous, the problem domain is SSRS Report Builder/PBI Paginated Report Builder doesn't give you enough space to craft your report.
The right but wrong answer is to go into the Property menu of the Body and there you can change the Size of the report.
Here you can see me manually increasing the size of the report body but it's easier/more precise to work with the property window.
Why it's the wrong answer -> You're designing a paginated report - one designed to be pica perfect on your page. Now we're stuffing a 21.875 inch body of a report into an 8x11 page piece of paper. Viewing of it might be ok but when someone clicks print, what happens? Is it going to squish all of that into a single page? Will Page 1 of the report really span N pages? It's been too long since I've worked with SSRS to that level of precision and I really don't remember but do test early if printing is a crucial aspect of the report delivery.
Outdated PBI Desktop/Service answer in case someone else needs it
In Power BI Desktop, click in the background and under Visualizations go to the Format tab. Change the default page size to custom and I could create a 99999 pixel tall report but I doubt that's advisable
I have a report in Access that is from a checklist form for closing down projects. When the report is loaded, depending on the project type, certain labels and their combo boxes are marked as not visible. This is done using VBA and the visible property of each control. I have noticed that the report still includes these combo boxes and labels as blank white space. Is there a way to remove the white space?
I have set the detail and the overall report to can grow and can shrink. I am thinking about possibly using sub-reports to do this but I am unsure if it will work.
Edit: Another solution I am thinking about is building several different reports and using an if statement for the project type to determine which report to open but this feels excessive to me. This solution would report in at least 5 separate reports.
Controls don't take space in Microsoft Access. They are positioned at a certain, predefined position, on a report of predefined size. There are little dynamic things about it (yes, nicomp is right, the CanGrow property makes it a tiny bit dynamic).
If you really want, you can move up all controls below a control you're hiding by the height of the control you're hiding, assuming controls take up the full width of the page. To do that, you can use something like the snippet below (iterate through all other controls):
If MyHiddenControl.Top < MyOtherControl.Top Then
MyOtherControl.Move MyOtherControl.Left, MyOtherControl.Top - MyHiddenControl.Height
End If
And if you want to do it properly, add margins for controls and resize the report detail section too.
If controls don't take up the full width, it's considerably more difficult to dynamically organize your report.
In SSRS usually if the table is larger than the page and not able to fit in one page, then it spreads to the next page. But in my case I want to have the entire table in one single page, instead of breaking the table across multiple pages.
I tried with Rectangle container and also tried providing height of the SSRS Report to 0 inches, but still no luck.
Is this possible to do in SSRS, if yes need some help to know how to do...
Go into Tablix properties and check "Keep together on one page if possible"
Make report height 0 too.
I'm implementing a Gantt Chart in SSRS via the Horizontal Range Chart and notes I found here (http://pnarayanaswamy.blogspot.com/2010/09/range-bar-chart-gantt-chart-using-ssrs.html). I've successfully implemented the Gantt Chart plus some additions so it can span multiple pages (DynamicHeight based on # of rows). My problem is that no matter what I do, I end up with double blank pages at the end of the report. I.e. if my Gantt chart is 10 pages, I'll have 10 blank pages at the end.
Any ideas? It's most definitely not a margin issue, as I've removed everything from the report except the Gantt Chart and then made it 1" wide and still get the double-pages issue. It is always exactly double the # of pages it should be. I've turned on all borders to see if there are any dynamically expanding boxes that might cause this but nothing is showing up. I'm open to ideas from anyone who has experienced anything similar. This is probably rare, though, as charts don't typically span multiple pages.
Thanks for your help.
Rocky
Even though you've explored a lot of the options, this still sound like a width issue. certainly a width issue: have you checked the width of the "Body" (That's the name that will show in the Properties pane.) You can find this by clicking on a blank part of the report, the background, and then use the properties pane to alter the width (The Body Properties dialog doesn't have options to change this.) Another way of changing these is by dragging the border of the page around in the designer.
Make sure that the width of the Body is less than your page width minus margins. Those, as it sounds like you know, are set in Report menu -> Report Properties.
I currently have a Matrix within an SSRS report. Usually, the matrix will fix to a standard page in portrait mode, however there are cases where the length of the columns will exceed a page. Is there a way to have SSRS render the report to a PDF where this Matrix would auto-size and shrink all of it's contents, ie: font, column widths to fit within a page? I don't want to shrink all objects in the SSRS report to fix the page, just the width of the Matrix.
If you were dealing with height, I would say that that's not a tablix configuration. The tablix would be only expanding because of the columns. And the columns would be expanding because the textboxes that are inside them expand.
So, you would need to deal with it on each textbox by Right clicking the textbox inside the column and select "text box properties". On the general tab uncheck "allow height to increase".
Strangely there isn't an option to width. This link tells about the CanGrow and CanShrink properties but I wasn't able to make it work. Maybe if you want to give it a try.
-> Go to report tab
-> Select the Report Properties
-> Select Paper Size "Letter" and "Width & Height" as per standards ("8.5 * 11" or "11*8.5")
Despite the downvote, Nawaz has the correct answer
To fit it to a specific page, especially for pdf output, then you set the size to A4. I always have three templates for this purpose, screen, pdfland and pdfport. I resize my headers, footers, titles and corporate imagery for each of these templates. It's a pain, but you can incentivise your users to ditch the pdfs and the printing and the paper by creating decent dashboards for them so they have live data to hand. That's really the only decent way I've found of getting them out of old and poor habits
So either right click outside the body of the report and select Report properties, or select it from the properties window tab at the right of the screen, then set the size to either letter or A4. It's not ideal, but if you do not limit the report size in this manner any dynamic columns will render outside the pdf and create multiple pages that need to be stuck together later
edit: If you really need to resize in a hurry, you can open the report as code, and use the replace function to reduce the size, however it is often easier to reposition the tables by hand