I am using SSRS extension on Visual Studio 2019. While generating report and trying to see how final report would look like in preview mode parts of data are missing. I have looked this issue online and have come across solution to shrink width of the columns, however this makes my report look too shrink and it requires further formating when exported to excel. Is there any way to fix this issue so I could adjust column width to the size needed? I have tried to look for solution o this online, however couldn't find thread with answer that would help in this case.
Data types I use:
StudentName - nvarchar(50)
Marks - nvarchar(50)
Gender - float
Alignment:
First row (Example report of students) - Horizontal: Center, Vertical: Default
In any other cells it is Default.
Also padding is set to 2pt for every element and direction.
photo with adjusted column width - this is the width I would like to achieve, however data dissapears when width is enlarged
photo with shrunk columns - this table contains all correct data, however columns don't have correct width (data dissappears when column width is changed)
Below is photo of my dataset in query designer view:
This is the example of output I get when column width is changed data missing, empty row in between.
Photo of table in design view
I have experienced this a number of times and I just found what appears to be the solution while investigating somebody else's solution. They said to change the font size from 10 to 11 and Hey Presto, everything shows up.
While I was checking out the fonts, I noticed that some columns (not all columns were blank) had changed the Font from Arial to SegoeUI. I have never used SegoeUI so can only think of a misplaced mouse click or something.
Anyway I changed all the fonts back to Arial (and left the size at 10) and all my data was visible again.
Related
I found a similar question on the link: rdlc-report-hidden-charts-creates-empty-pages, but it didn't helped.
I have two sections that needed to be hidden when data is not present. however after adding a new section in the accident info section I am getting the error. My page size is 8.27in, 11.69in. Interactive size is 8in, 11in.
On that section previous height was 7.8 inch now its increased to 8 inch. After subtracting header and footer 8.4 inch space is available for the page. if margin is considered only 0.1 inch margin is there for all sides. ConsumeContainerWhitespace is also true.
For some data where these two rectangles are not visible an empty page is generated. This should not be the case as after hiding them from expression widget moves up automatically. On some sections property "PageBreak" is set to BreakLocation=Start. It is because some sections needs to be saved in a new page.
page before break
Page after break
here is the sample code for RDLC
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Report xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition" xmlns:rd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner">
<ConsumeContainerWhitespace>true</ConsumeContainerWhitespace>
<rd:ReportUnitType>Inch</rd:ReportUnitType>
<rd:ReportID>38832df4-093b-4332-b811-4e31095617ec</rd:ReportID>
</Report>
Sorry I am unable to load my full RDLC as the body limit is exceeded.
I am using reporting version 8.
I think it may work if you move the content of the textbox inside a Tablix.
Then use Row Visibility to hide / show that row instead of the textbox itself.
If your design is more complex, like multiple combination of hide / show textbox.
You will need to use the Show or hide based on an expression function to check all textboxes' visibilities.
Firstly I would like to thank #HardcoreGamer for support. In this case I tried with only Tablix widget with row visibility and widget visibility based on expression. None of the approach worked. I had got one concept wrong that on hiding the widget or Tablix report takes no space. The report takes space which is between the widgets.
I also tried with two different schema as well i.e. RDL 2008 and 2016 but same thing happened on both.
I posted similar question on Microsoft form as well : RDLC Report Hidden rectangles Creates Empty Pages
What finally worked is that I reduced the rectangle of previous page by a margin of 1 inch excluding padding, page margin and footer for A4 size page. The space between the widgets was 0.5 inch. for hiding two widgets additional space of 1 inch is required, so that a new page doesn't gets generated.
Final image with changes
I still have to find a way out if data increases then the new page dosent get generated.
I know that the question was submitted a lot of times, but this is driving me mad.
I'm trying to make a landscape A4 report, printer friendly. As I could see in lots of threads before I tried to respect the fact that the body size must be inferior or equal to the physical page, including margins, and columns in the count.
Here are my document properties
Report:
Body:
I inserted a first rectangle with some contents, at that point, no extra blank page, here is the rectangle location :
Right after I inserted a second rectangle with same dimensions as previous one:
Both first pages are rendered correctly with the rectangle at its expected location, but I get a 3rd extra blank page...
ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace property is set to true, and this did not help...
Do you have any trick to get definitely rid of these blank pages ?
Thanks a lot !
EDIT : Just added the report designer view, as requested
Don't know how I didn't notice it before, but your body height is bigger than your page height defined in the report properties. If your report is supposed to generate two pages, that second page will have to add an extra 3 centimeters and cause that third page.
I finally managed to handle this the following way : I put my first rectangle 0,5cm under the header (with a forced pagebreak after) and if I use the same size of rectangle for everypage, ensuring that there's a 0,5 cm space between each rectangle, I can manage to display content on multiple pages, with rectangle bordel always located at the same position. Guess I should keep this method for all future reports :) Thanks a lot for your advices !
I created a simple SSRS 2005 report. It is a table with 2 columns. When I preview the report it looks great. I put it on the Report Server (Report Manager) and when it is displayed the width of the columns of the table are only as wide as the widest value. I want the column widths to be a fixed width. I also want the rows to have alternating colors. On the Report Server, only the 2nd column has the coloring.
I have tried setting the table column attribute 'CanGrow' to true. But the table is only as wide as the data. The column widths are set to 3.09167in and 3.55.
It seems that I cannot widen the table columns from their original widths.
If I add padding to the left and right margins the column data is wider but the row coloring is still incorrect.
Has anybody seen this problem before?
Update
Below are screen shots of what the report looks like when previewed in VS2005 and when it is displayed on the Report Server.
In Visual Studio it looks like this (which is what I want it to look like.)
This is what it looks like on the Report Manager:
This is the code that I use to alternate the row color on both columns but only the second one displays the green color:
= IIf(RowNumber(Nothing) Mod 2 = 0, "#BCDCBC", "Transparent")
If I add a third column, the alternating color works for the third column also but not for the first column.
In case anybody else has this problem this is how I worked around it...
To solve the report width problem I put the table inside a rectangle and made the rectangle the width I wanted the table to be and that was corrected.
I could not figure out why the alternating row color code would not work for the first column but for all others. So, I added a 'hack'. I added an additional column to be the first column with no heading and no data. Made it very small in width (0.03) so that is not too noticeable. That allowed the other columns to be correctly colored and the first one is not.
i have an ssrs 2008 R2 matrix with Accounts on Rows, Months on Columns and Sales in the data section. I need to “double underline” the sales numbers but I can’t figure out how to do this.
i tried using “double border” but that would create one giant line across instead of just underlining the sales numbers - in other words, the display would be a single long line across.
any idea how to achieve this? i am willing to use custom code in the report code. Thanks in advance for your help.
Edit: Adding a screen shot to show the desired output:
For some reason the Double text box BorderStyle property seems to be rather temperamental.
This MSDN thread suggests a few requirements to get this running:
Double Line border turn to be single in Reporting Service
The border width must be 3pt at least.
There must be at least one row beneath the Double border text box.
Let's test this out. A simple tablix:
And let's set the bottom text box to be Double at the bottom:
In Preview this is unsuccessful:
Let's test out the suggestions. First, set the width to 3pt:
Same result:
Let's add an extra row below:
It works:
What's going on here? It seems like if the width is too low, the two lines will squash together. Also, it seems like the border actually spills to an adjacent text box, so if this doesn't exist the bottom line is not displayed.
Put them together and it works.
One more note - this is not required for Excel - just add a 1pt Double border and it will be fine. The above series of steps are only required for Web, PDF, etc.
I am using SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS 2005) to build an A4 portrait report. This report contains some text data and a matrix placed on a list so a horizontal table effect is created (with the columns representing the various repeating fields). The problem I am encountering is that, when exporting the report to PDF (or printing it) between each data page, I get a blank page with just the header and the footer and no data. I have read that this may be due to the body + left + right margins being greater than the report width. However, this is not the case and I have the following relevant settings:
InteractiveWidth (Report) - 8.5in;
PageWidth (Report) - 21cm;
PageHeight (Report) - 29.7cm;
Left Margin (Report) - 0;
Right Margin (Report) - 0;
Top Margin (Report) - 0;
Bottom Margin (Report) - 0;
The body width is 7.2 inches.
The matrix contains 2 fixed columns and is set to repeat every additional 5 columns using the following grouping expression set on the list:
=Ceiling(RowNumber(Nothing)/5)
What I noticed is if I change that matrix to repeat every 2 columns horizontally, the report is printed properly, with no blank pages. (But 3,4, or more columns leads to the problem). And there is more than enough space for 5 columns and it would look really odd to print just 2! So, I think something in the list/matrix is causing the problem, but don't know exactly what!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in avance,
Tim
I am the one who posted the original question from another PC...
The solution was to shorten the list (that contains the matrix) to the width of the matrix as the list was effectively padding and giving the blank page.
Once I shortened the list to the width of the matrix, some other report items were being pushed out of the page (a useful trick to notice which items go out may be to colour the background of the report items in, say, red), but then this I resolved by placing everything in rectangles and setting the start of the rectangle to a point to the left of the matrix so that it does not get pushed out.
Thanks,
Tim
I have the same problem and what I think is happening is that your body of the report is larger than the size of the matrix in the report designer. That empty space between the matrix in the designer and the body is what is causing the blank page. Unfortunately I am trying to fix that right now as well.
To get around it right now, the width of my body in the report designer is the width of the matrix.
Hope this information was a bit helpful. If you need clarification, let me know.
regarding cylc's answer: the problem does indeed have something to do w/the matrix being less than the report body width.
since my matrix is smaller than the content in my header and footer, i needed another workaround. after reading cyclc's response, i added another hidden column outside the final column group and expanded its width such that the matrix width matched the report width. no more blank pages.
anyone know if MS recognized this as an issue and is addressing it?
The problem might stem from your margins being set to 0. Have you tried setting margin values (0.5cm would be a reasonable value)?
PS - you don't have to work in a mixture of inches and centimeters - BIDS will allow you to change the units to match one another.