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.
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I understand that I can never exceed the width of a report body, but I have more report items than a (Design View) page can hold and I don't know what to do.
To clarify, what is currently on the Design View page correctly becomes a longer display view, and becomes multiple printed pages. Just what I want.
The problem is that I've run out of vertical design canvas and I don't know how to fix that.
Now that we've identified the PBI-Desktop tag was erroneous, the problem domain is SSRS Report Builder/PBI Paginated Report Builder doesn't give you enough space to craft your report.
The right but wrong answer is to go into the Property menu of the Body and there you can change the Size of the report.
Here you can see me manually increasing the size of the report body but it's easier/more precise to work with the property window.
Why it's the wrong answer -> You're designing a paginated report - one designed to be pica perfect on your page. Now we're stuffing a 21.875 inch body of a report into an 8x11 page piece of paper. Viewing of it might be ok but when someone clicks print, what happens? Is it going to squish all of that into a single page? Will Page 1 of the report really span N pages? It's been too long since I've worked with SSRS to that level of precision and I really don't remember but do test early if printing is a crucial aspect of the report delivery.
Outdated PBI Desktop/Service answer in case someone else needs it
In Power BI Desktop, click in the background and under Visualizations go to the Format tab. Change the default page size to custom and I could create a 99999 pixel tall report but I doubt that's advisable
It seems so basic and surely resolved by SSRS 2014 SP1 but I can't find a way in Print Layout (for PDF ultimately, but this is simple display) to allow a tablix to render at the top of following pages when a text box displays above it on the first page (eg. address details which would not be wanted on every subsequent page filled by tablix results). This results in unprofessional wasted white space above the results on every page after the first.
The tablix seems "stuck" so it only starts on the page wherever you put it on the design layout (using Report Builder because SSDT not playing with VS2015, but same things should apply). That's when the text box above it naturally doesn't even display on the subsequent pages - why would it, it's done its job and is not repeateable! After all, it's not in a header.
Have set the textbox to CanShrink=true but its still holding the space (because it's content remains, fair enough).
Also tried hiding the textbox (and should be able to do this conditionally on subsequent pages) but whitespace is still there, which is odd and perhaps shows the real limitation.
Applied ConsumeContainerWhitespace=true on report level (you would have thought that would do the trick) but no joy.
Even put both textbox and tablix in a same Rectangle so they become "peers" and maybe control the whitespace better, but nope.
Would prefer the header to repeat and the textbox address to only be on the first page, but another annoying limitation is that for headers there's only a "PrintOnFirstPage" option, not one to print on first page only! Of course, a workaround for that like SSRS Report Builder - Only Show Header On First Page (With Page Numbers) is to move textbox into the body area and hide, but as noted, that still leaves the stupid whitespace on every subsequent page - d'oh!
Surely there's a way to resolve this basic requirement, or maybe I'm missing something obvious?
EDIT: Remembered I never had this problem before and realised it's now only because there are multiple Projects per Worker (sorry, not enough rep yet for pic). If I choose a parameter period with only one project, the line descriptions will continue on the top of any subsequent pages. Only if the tablix header group (Project: [TaskDesc] and Worker) changes does a new page start - but with the tablix at the original page 1 layout location (ie under the textbox), not at the top of the subsequent page where it should be. Hope this clarifies - looks like a bug, odd tablix behaviour, but maybe a workaround?
If you want a non-repeating TextBox, just make sure it's outside of a repeating report element. This means outside of a Tablix or Rectangle.
Just place the TextBox at the top of your page and place the Tablix/Rectangle below it. When the Tablix/Rectangle grows beyond the maximum page height, it will break and continue at the top of a new page.
If you simply think there is too much empty space at the top of the page, try fiddling around with the page margins.
I'm trying to create doughnut chart and insert label inside the chart's hole. When I render report, label is being moved outside the chart.
Is it possible to force report items to overlap instead of position it automaticaly?
I was looking for an answer to this earlier! I was trying to overlay a rectangle shape on to an image of a site-map.
Unfortunately the answer is no, due to the way that HTML renders objects:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255248.aspx
Very old question, but page overlapping is supported in hard page break formats, such as PDF, or physical print of a report. Essentially, any other format (such as HTML or the Report Builder tool) will move your items around the page, but if you export that same (non-overlapped) report to PDF, your items will be displayed as you intended, with overlapping items.
See here for further details
You can "Add New Title" at the chart at set its position to "BottomCenter".
Right click the chart and select "Chart">"Add New Title". Place the title bottom centered and resize the text
The result in Report Manager:
Number within a chart
Overall Answer:
Unfortunately, SSRS is not graphic, design, layer friendly. The way it renders objects is based on it's boarders. So overlapping is very difficult, time consuming and in most scenarios not possible. Unless you are good with VB programming you may be able to get by with custom code at the report properites -> Code window. It's sad that powerpoint, word, excel natively have better design capabilities than SSRS. Like who in their right mind would ever think that people only want to see data represented in a tablix or box. SSRS <= 2012 native graphing options are a joke! ~ If you can use SSRS 2016, they may have fixed a lot of those customization options.
What I have tried:
Every possible combination/settings workarounds you can think of and unlimited coffee googling to the max. If you are barely starting this journey to figure it out. Let us save you hours of research and stress so you can meet your deadlines. Either build the design in broken up graphic portions (considering that SSRS will render based on borders). If you can crop images do that as much as you can; I found Windows 10 Paint 3D to be very helpful with that, Out of everything I tried, cropping/breaking apart images was the best alternative to get a better level of customization.
I'm implementing a Gantt Chart in SSRS via the Horizontal Range Chart and notes I found here (http://pnarayanaswamy.blogspot.com/2010/09/range-bar-chart-gantt-chart-using-ssrs.html). I've successfully implemented the Gantt Chart plus some additions so it can span multiple pages (DynamicHeight based on # of rows). My problem is that no matter what I do, I end up with double blank pages at the end of the report. I.e. if my Gantt chart is 10 pages, I'll have 10 blank pages at the end.
Any ideas? It's most definitely not a margin issue, as I've removed everything from the report except the Gantt Chart and then made it 1" wide and still get the double-pages issue. It is always exactly double the # of pages it should be. I've turned on all borders to see if there are any dynamically expanding boxes that might cause this but nothing is showing up. I'm open to ideas from anyone who has experienced anything similar. This is probably rare, though, as charts don't typically span multiple pages.
Thanks for your help.
Rocky
Even though you've explored a lot of the options, this still sound like a width issue. certainly a width issue: have you checked the width of the "Body" (That's the name that will show in the Properties pane.) You can find this by clicking on a blank part of the report, the background, and then use the properties pane to alter the width (The Body Properties dialog doesn't have options to change this.) Another way of changing these is by dragging the border of the page around in the designer.
Make sure that the width of the Body is less than your page width minus margins. Those, as it sounds like you know, are set in Report menu -> Report Properties.
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