I have a requirement to print a receipt which is actually dynamically expand the content. I am using SSRS to design the report. I am using "Epson TM-T88V Thermal POS Receipt Printer" to print the content. I need a way to setup the page size dynamically as per the content length.
I googled alot but didn't find any way to print the report on continuous paper/receipt printer. It will be grateful if can help on this.
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I'm using SSRS to print some receipt tickets, I don't know hw many items would be on that ticket until it is finished at production time, could be one or could be one hundred or even more. I need to print it in a roll paper instead of pages.
SSRS doesn't allow it directly, then I need to set up page Height size at run time according the amount of items to print.
There is any way to calculate/get the body size of my report, before print it?
NOTE: Header and footer has a predefined length.
On my SSRS report I have set the Report Properties to Landscape, paper size to Tabloid and 17 width by 11 height with 0.25 margin. After I deployed the report and ran it on the web. Followed by exporting to Excel and printed it and it did not come out the format I have set on SSRS. Also, the I have bold the report lines by section based on the group and in Excel the bold report lines are not there.Please advise. I am thinking of moving to Crystal report might solve the problem. Any ideas. Thanks.
This isn't quite how page size works in SSRS. When you set the page size attribute, this will really only effect two things in SSRS.
How the report is displayed online. This is set via the Interactive Page Size setting, and really, only the height matters here.
Page Size sets the page size on the PDF export. We have this because PDFs are supposed to be a portable format, commonly used for printing.
Excel doesn't have this attribute as a part of the file. If you want to print to a specified page size/format, that's all handled at the time of printing by the print dialog.
I'm working on SSRS Reports.
Currently I am facing one issue. I have two tablix in a single Report. Now, Tablix1 or Tablix2 will be visible in either condition.
For example: I am passing One Flag as True then Tablix1 should be visible and for this layout would be Landscape and I am passing Flag Value as False then Tablix2 should be visible and for that layout would be Portrait.
For Show/Hide Tablix I am having solution but what about orientation?
How can I achieve this in SSRS Reports? Can anyone please help me or guide me?
Thanks in advance!!
I can only answer this question in regard to 2012, but it is not possible to achieve this with a single report. Please see my caveat below. In SSRS, you have two properties that determine the size of the report and where breaks should occur. InteractiveSize determines the size of the page when viewed in interactive formats (i.e., RDL or MHTML4.0). For all other report formats (e.g., Word, PDF, Excel, CSV), the PageSize determines the size of the page when viewed in those non-interactive formats.
In SSRS 2012 as well as earlier versions, expressions are not accepted in the InteractiveSize or PageSize fields. This means you cannot reference variables or parameters or field values.
Caveat
I took an existing report I had created with a page size of 8.5" (width) by 11" (height) that is normally two or three pages wide. I then created a blank report and added an 11" x 8.5" subreport pointing to my original report. When I exported this to PDF, I got an 11" (wide) by 8.5" (tall) PDF with the spacing and page breaks as you would expect for a landscape document. However, when I exported to Word, Microsoft Word crashed and burned. This may have something to do with the fact that the PDF exporter uses hard page breaks and the Word exporter uses soft page breaks. In any event, depending on what you need, you may be able to use a single report (i.e., a single place where the logic and datasets are set up once only) and then reference that report as a subreport elsewhere with a different page size. Just be sure to thoroughly test the result in any allowed export formats.
I hope this helps!
I have a bunch of reports that are all tables in reporting services that I need to format for printing. Most print fine, but some have rows that take up more room than there is on the page and it cuts them off for printing. Is it possible to write a program in the custom code box to check if the rows are longer than the page and if they are resize it. How can I do this, what references do I use?
You don't need to resize tables for printing - just ensure your page, report ans margin sizes all match the size of paper you are printing to - A4?
I have an SSRS report with an interactive size of 8.5/11, margins set at 0.25, the page size is set to 8.5/11, the body is 8.0w and the report is 8.0w, but for some reason when I export to excel it doesn't fit on a single page. Any ideas what could be causing this? I have other reports with the same setup that do fit to a page. Same printer setup as the other reports too.
Excel accounts for a very tiny amount of space for the grid separation. So when you export to excel the report is widened and lengthened slightly. Usually its not an issue but if you have a large number of columns in said report the number of separations is going to be greater pushing you over that tipping point. You can do 1 of 2 things. 1. Change the width of your report to account for this space added by excel or 2. export to PDF for printing purposes as it is not going to alter the width of your report and allow for your expected printing outcome.