While Crystal reports can handle this, we are transitioning to SSRS and we need to display it on our work travelers to comply with our suppliers. Are there alternatives to display a black star on SSRS, that can still be pulled from a text field (image not possible)?
I haven't been able to find unicode options other than this ★ (U+2605).
When the report prints, the empty square indicating "no symbol" is displayed.
You can use the Wingdings font for that. If you paste the following character, it will appear as a black star in Wingdings:
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My print preview from MS Access shows everything perfectly fine. Here's the actual PDF file snapshot which shows some letters are cut in half. It happens inconsistently with this report and not always for the same data.
In this report only 5 out of 40 questions had their first letter cut in half.
Please advise.
I've tried adjusting where the data field must start, i.e. I've moved the start of the question a bit more right, but no difference.
Here's the design view I've highlighted in yellow where the question starts. I've moved it more right, makes no difference.
Here's where the user captures questions]
Your problem text lines have a stray Tab character (ASCII 9) at or near the beginning of the line, which is being interpreted as a lateral positioning move for the string. Your correct lines do not have a stray Tab. If you use Acrobat's text editor to delete the Tab, the rest of the line jumps properly into view.
Below, I've extracted the text of each line in your sample, and replaced the unexpected Tab character with an "X." If you use Acrobat text editing to navigate carefully to the spot in the line where the Tab is located (you won't see it directly, but it's there), Shift-cursor sideways to highlight the Tab alone, and delete it, you'll see the text revert to its normal appearance.
Note that the Tab is usually not the first character in the line, in lines where it appears:
SXources of polyunsaturated fats include
LXack of calcium is one of the major causes of osteoporosis
XDisaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrate
Excessive long term protein intake may lead to kidney problems
Water soluble vitamins taken in excess have toxic effects in the body
LXack of calcium is one of the major causes of osteoporosis
SXources of polyunsaturated fats include
VXitamin B12 is involved in
I'm going to hazard a guess here that the problem was introduced in the text before it was uploaded to your final document, so that the unwanted Tabs somehow snuck in as body text. I hope that helps.
That is one weird effect. It is a bit suspicious that it only occurs towards the end of the document, but I have no idea what causes it.
Two workarounds worked for me:
1) Use
=" " & [Question]
as control source of the text box, and rename it to txtQuestion to avoid a circular reference. That's two spaces, one wasn't enough.
Move it a bit to the left, to make up for the increased indentation.
2) Don't use the Access-integrated PDF creator, use a PDF printer instead.
I used the Windows 10 integrated "Microsoft Print to PDF", but there are many free ones, e.g. https://en.pdf24.org/ (just google "pdf printer driver").
This created a larger .pdf file for me, but it doesn't show the error.
Edit: Interestingly, while Adobe Acrobat Reader shows the error, Foxit Reader or the Firefox integrated PDF viewer doesn't. Here is a single page example if anyone else wants to check.
I've inherited a pretty big report. The RDLC file is over 11,200 lines of XML.
In Visual Studio, it is easy to find the relevant element for a bound value in the raw xml (simple Find operation).
Is there a way to find that cell in the visual designer?
For example, if I know the cell has a TextBox with a name SupervisionLevelName61, is there a quick and easy way to locate that in the Visual Designer view of that RDLC file? Perhaps a keyboard shortcut which gives that cell focus?
Obviously, manually searching for that cell, given the name of the Textbox, takes far too long owing to the sheer size of the RDLC file.
Thanks
I found the solution:
At the top of the properties window you have a dropdown field. Within this dropdown field you see all the the elements within your current section (in my example I'm in the document body).
When you click an item, the design-view will focus the item like in the next screenshot (see the orange bracket).
I am using SQL Server 2012
Visual Studio 2010
I have made a report with a pie chart. I want the series data labels outside the chart as you see in the images below. However the label value ClassificationMemberName is getting cut off at the top and bottom when I run the report.
As you see below for example, International Funds is getting trimmed at the top and bottom as are several of the other labels. You can't see the entire letter.
In design mode I see no way to resize the series labels through the GUI. I experimented extensively with various properties settings, but could not find a way to work around this problem including altering the font size.
The report has a parent and a subreport. The chart is in the subreport. If it's helpful here are the rdls
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29851290/Sector%20Allocation.rdl
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29851290/SectorAllocationSubreport.rdl
Thank you for your help.
I figured this out. The software vendor had placed custom code in the series label properties that was actually sizing the text based on the corresponding pie chart size. So the bigger the pie slice, the more the label was being cut off. I removed this code in the expression editor and used a static value for the property of the pie slices (classificationmembername) and now the text is not being cut off.
My problem is that when I print some reports from our report server I get the incorrect currency printed. When viewing the report the correct currency(£) is displayed but when that same report is printed from the print button on the SSRS report manager the incorrect currency ($)is shown on the printed page.
Some things to bear in mind:
We use the RSService to display reports
All reports language property is set to User!Language
Both my machine and browser language settings are set to the correct language
This issue does not happen on all grids on reports(Some reports that have to grids on show correct currency on viewing and then the printed version show one correct and one incorrect)
So after hours of trying things out it turns out that if you have a text box on a report(or grid cell) that has its language setting set to user!language it will not behave how you expect it to. Hence the reason why I had one grid displaying correct values and another grid displaying incorrect values.
What I did to fix this issue is open up the code view of the report and find and replace < Language>=User!Language< /Language> with and empty string and then only set the reports language setting to User!language.
Hope this saves someone a headache!
I have a report to build that has many different fields showing various results.
As these numbers are not intuitive, I need some sort of mechanism to display a balloon tooltip when the user hovers over or clicks on a number.
I am open to either Crystal reports or SSRS. I will just be limited to the free editions that come with visual studio 2008.
Any help or advice is appreciated
In SSRS, most controls have ToolTips
For example, the textbox properties tab
Crystal Reports also supports tool-tip text. Right click the field, select Format Field..., then the Common tab. Enter a static value in the 'tool tip text' field or click the button to the right of the field and enter a conditional formula that will calculate the value.