Need advice on how to display multiple line charts in one report? Currently charts are stretched out and on each other when viewing the report. Expected outcome:
Not a lot of detail given on what exactly is happening with your report, but I think the solution would be to set up a second column to keep the charts from stretching too far. If you click anywhere outside of the report boundaries, the report properties appear in the properties window. Set Columns to 2, and ColumnSpacing to 0 unless you want to ensure a certain gap between charts.
For more details on how this works, refer to the MSDN page here and here.
This does have limitations, as the columns can only be rendered in PDF and Image formats. You can also refer to this StackOverflow question for more information.
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I have an rdlc report in my application. The report looks good when seen on the web page, but when I choose the option of exporting to Excel, I get some columns merged in more than one cells. I don't want columns to be merged. How can I prevent this. I already saw this post, but the link provided in this post is not working.
Any help with this issue will be appreciated.
As the post you shared suggested, this is usually down to cells/textboxes not aligning in your report design.
SSRS will attempt to replicate the layout that you see in the report preview (or webpage in your case). To do this it will add additional columns to provide the correct spacing and then will merge cells that cross those boundaries.
Make sure that all your textboxes align with no horizontal gap etc. For example, if your report contains a table/matrix and a textbox with a title. Make sure that the title textbox starts and finishes exactly in line with a cell in the table/matrix.
Note that cells will still be merged if they cross the boundaries of columns (e.g. the title in this example, might be merged across several columns depending on it's width).
Sticking with our title scenario, if you need to stop it from merging under any circumstances then you could try this (untested).
Create two textboxes, one wide enough to fit the title in and another that is the same width as other data that shoudl be in the same column in the final excel output. For example, if you have a table with 6 columns, the first textbox will be the same size as those 6 columns but the smaller version will be aligned with the first table column only.
Set the location of both these textboxes to the same location (so they overlap).
Then in the hidden property set one to be hidden when Globals!RenderFormat = "EXCELOPENXML" and the other when this expression is not true. This way the short textbox will only get rendered when exporting to excel, and the logn one will only get rendered to screen.
Depending on version SSRS etc you will have to decide which render format(s) to check for.
See here for documentation on RenderFormat
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/report-design/built-in-collections-built-in-globals-and-users-references-report-builder?view=sql-server-ver15
I am working for the Vanuatu government at the moment and there is a very specific reporting requirement. The report needs to generate a formal document ("statement") for students ("learners") who have achieved some courses ("components") of a full qualification but not the complete qualification.
The dataset consists of a list of learners and for each learner the list of components they have achieved.
The requirements that generate issues:
A border should be displayed around the page content.
The number of components vary per learner.
There is specific data at the top and at the bottom of the page. At the bottom of the page there is data here that is learner dependent.
There needs to be one page per learner (I can control this by using slightly different versions of this report that would work based on the number of components per learner.
The design I created for the report can be seen here. This is the design that should work for any learner who has passed 1 to 4 components.
However, this does not work, because, depending on the number of components the learner has achieved, the data at the bottom is pushed down.
I thought I might be able to solve this by putting the image at the background of the whole report per page, and then put a header and footer in with the data that is learner specific. But this does not work either because it is not possible it seems to have a background image that covers the whole report page, including a header and future.
And the other problem is that there is a learner specific number (the statement number) that should go in the future, and I don't think I can put dataset data like that in the footer.
I also thought of splitting the background image in 3 parts, one each for the header, footer and body. But then I run into the same problem because I still need to get the learner specific statement number in the footer.
Another solution was to maybe have a fixed set of rows (partly invisible) in the list of components, to force the height of this list, but this does not really work either, because some titles of the components will be longer than the width of the page and wrap and take up two lines of text. Some others may not. So I don't know the height of each component line.
Is this possible at all in SSRS? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Try creating a rectangle in the space that will be taken by the components list.
Then cut the current text box containing your expression, click the rectangle then paste inside it. This will ensure that the rectangle is the container for the textbox.
Then, in Report Properties, set ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace to True. This should allow the textbox to grow within the rectangle
Not sure if this is even possible to fix or not but I have made a report and in the body of said report is have a large .jpeg image inside a single cell of a tablix. There is only one cell in the entire tablix and have done that to allow me to group and sort the data that is displayed.
The issue is that over the jpeg image I have several fields that are overlapping with the image, there is no other way I can do this that I can think of due to the complexity of the image and the image is a diagram of a part of the plant and how it is physically set up on site.
When I go to preview the report the jpeg shows at the top of the report but all of the data that is overlapped on top of the image is shifted down to the bottom on the report (Just below the image). When exported out to a PDF the report looks fine with all of the data in the correct place as it does not seem to care that data is overlapped over a image.
The reports are downloaded from a web based server which also allows the user to preview the report within the browser it self. The big issue is that the rendering of the report in the web browser is the same as the rendering the preview window with all of the data shifted below the diagram image.
Is it possible to change the default render to be same as what is used in the PDF format or is this something we will just have to live with? Sorry for the long winded question as I cant really post any screenshots.
You can't force the report to render a certain way. It's usually better to just stick with one format and make sure your users know to look at it in PDF, for example. Otherwise, you can use a hack to make it look better.
If you want to prevent the text from overlapping the image, a hack we used was to put an invisible line across the table cell. Since the cell now has something in it, the other cells don't overlap. Not sure if it'll work in this case, though.
I have a table and a graph next to each other in a line.
I can choose one or more of 5 columns which can be displayed by using multiple values in parameters. But when I'll choose 4 of 5 I have white area between chart (graph) and tablix (table), what I don't want. I want to expand these columns to initial tablix size. And the same in case less number of columns. Is it possible expand them depending on chosen parameters?
(Edit:) Or how to change width of column depending on expression? If I can do this, my problem will be solved.
Or another idea is to expand chart on whole width - it could be between tablix and the end of page.
Any ideas how to do this?
This is unfortunately not possible in SSRS without the use of a hack. To quote the "accepted" answer from this MSDN thread:
This is a common request and I definitely see the value in it. However, we didn't get to this for SSRS 2008. Please feel free to file a feature request (or add votes to an existing request) on the connect.microsoft.com.
As far as I know this hasn't changed in SSRS 2012, though someone may correct me on this.
The thread mentioned above holds several workardounds, ranging from ugly to UGLY. One other lead (possibly even a duplicate question?) is this SO question where it's suggested to not hide the column but make the text have the same color as the background o.O
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