I've got the following SSRS report, which when exported to PDF the tablix splits across multiple pages, which is fine, however, I don't want the left and right border lines to carry on over, the cell itself doesn't split, its the tablix. Can this be prevented?
Posting as a solution, since this worked for you!
Remove the border on the tablix and only have the borders on the detail rows.
Glad it worked!
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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 having report in SSRS with two cell merged into one cell. While exporting this report to excel,
it shows me two different cells instead of merged one. The first cell is having value while other is blank. Kindly suggest solution to this issue.
Other report elements above or below your merged cell can cause what you are seeing. Make sure that any other tables or text areas on the page have have line up with the start/stop points of your columns on the table with the merged cells.
For example, if you have another table or text title that doesn't line up with one of your columns, Excel forces in an extra blank column. If you temporarily remove anything other than your table with the problem, you may see that it suddenly works.
Another trick is to use points as the unit of measure when specifying widths and heights. When you export to Excel, any measurements in inches are converted to points. Sometimes it ends up with partial points resulting in unexpected behavior. For details about the points measurements see - Microsoft's explanation here.
I am using Report Builder 3.0 and my main report contains a big table with 2 columns and multiple rows. At some point the two columns are merged into one and contain a subreport. I use 3 subreports consecutively.
My problem is when exporting to Word. After the first and the second subreport Word adds a pretty big white space.
I've tried to figure out if the white space comes from the end of subreports 1 and 2, or from the beginning of subreports 2 and 3.
I have deleted all the margins from the subreports and also set the page size so it would be accordingly to the page size of the main report.
Basically, I am trying to figure out ugly white spaces when exporting a table containing subreports in Word and how to get rid of it.
I hope my desperation has been sensed and absolutely every suggestion will be extremely welcomed.
Thank you!
Since you're asking for any suggestion...
A tip I once read for determining what is creating space in a report: set the background color for the various elements: a different non-white color for each element. Then, hopefully, you can see what is causing the space in the exported document. Also see if different format exports have this problem, or if it's really unique to just Word.
You have a new page after a group or subreport set. Therefore, the rest of the page is whitespace. Check for these and run your report.
I have a report with 12 Tablixes on it. The user can pick and choose which one of these Tables and their associated data shows when the Report is generated. However, when chosing a subset of the 12 tables, the report shows blank space where I hide the non-selected tables. Is there any way to make the report resize/fit the size of the selected tables...truncating the white space where the invisible tables are?
Thanks
First off welcome to SO.
I personally have not been able to find a way to truncate that white space. The best solution I've found is to just design my reports around it.
Also, Sub-Reports, or a Tablix of Tablixes may come in handy for this solution.
So, yeah, those are the routes I would explore:
Design report around white space
Sub-Reports
Tablix of Tablixes
put your tables on rectangles, and optionally hide the rectangles based on your requirements. In the report settings, set consume white space to true. That should do it for you.
I am using SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 (though this seems to be an issue for me in 2005 also). I have a report that has one page per customer (i.e. paged on customerId). The odd thing I'm seeing is that the first report (i.e. first page of the report) has a bit of extra white space at the top than the other pages. In general this seems to occur when you have a title for the report and paging (so that the first page has the title, but each successive page does not). The report I'm dealing with does not have a title like that, but still has this extra white space.
What I'm wondering is how do I prevent that extra white space on this first page of the report. How do I make each page of the report identical?
I do not have a header or footer applied to the report either.
I've just found the problem i had with extra space on first page.
In my case, the report has a header (with a textbox inside) and in the body a table.
The problem was that on first page (printed from the app) appeared a little space between the header and the table on the body. Well, apart from that the result was perfect.
But when exporting to Excel, first page only showed header, the rest of the pages looked perfect.
The solution: when you add a table (at least in the body), this table has automatically header and footer. I wasn't using header nor footer so i've removed them (first file and last file of the table) and voilá =-D
that's all.
There are a couple of different causes for extra space at the top of the HTML render of a page in any version of Reporting Services. There are a couple of tricks to working around this depending upon the cause of the problem:
Move the title from the Header to the Body of the report. If the title is a label, this doesn't always help.
If you are using a table, then add a separate row to the header of the table. This seems to work very well, particularly when you render to Excel. However, not all report requirements can support this as a solution.
In SSRS 2000/2005, if you are using a container such as a rectangle or group, then the odds that you will having a spacing issue increase. If you can move the title out of the container, then this can help reduce the likelihood of a problem. I haven't tried using the Tablix grouping controls in SSRS 2008, so I can't tell if this will work in SSRS 2008.
If you keep the header and footer objects on even you aren't adding any labels to the regions, then these can lead to extra spaces on the first page.
It is difficult to give you better advice without reproducing your exact problem. If you want to post the code for a sample RDL file temporarily, then I can try to reproduce the problem in SSRS 2008 on my machine and see if I can provide you with a custom solution to your problem.
I'm using Reporting Services / SSRS 2008. I have a table (tablix) with column headers and a subreport in the last row. How do I get rid of the extra space on the first page? It looks ugly when exported to Excel. I've tried moving the table immediately below the report header and it does not work. It seems to enforce a tiny space between the two.