When choosing a textbox in rdl design file - you can add expression. But how do I add multiple expressions to the same textbox?
Click in the text box until you get the cursor (usually 1st click
will select the text box, the 2nd will place the cursor in it).
Next, right-click the cell and choose Create Placeholder
Set the expression for the placeholder as you would for a textbox.
Now you can also type literals into the text box and then right-click again when you need another place holder
Repeat as required...
I often use this for things like page numbers with a total that might look like this...
Note: You can format each piece of text individually too using this method.
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I have created a Directional indicator (Green up arrow and Red down arrow) in my SSRS report, referring to the value of the column next to it. This all works ok:
However, I really want the indicator and the value to be in the same cell, like Excel can:
A Google found the following article , where the last post suggest it is possible using the following syntax:
=Format(Fields!Column1.Value, "Format") + " " + "Indicator"
I assume "Indicator" refers to the name I gave to my Direction indicator, but I can't get it to work..
I have read that by using border formatting I can get my two cells to look like one, but I would ideally like it all to be in one.
Any thoughts appreciated!
Mark
I would do this by placing a Rectangle inside of the cell and place your indicator along with another text box inside the rectangle. The downside to this is (depending on how you align the items in the rectangle) the formatting may cause split cells in excel exports.
Ross's method will work and there are alternatives..
The article you referenced was a text indicator not an image (from what I could tell).
You could do something similar by simply adding a a placeholder in the cell (right-click inside the cell and click "create placeholder"). You can then set the font and colour independently from the rest of the cell.
You could use a common font such as wingdings to get arrows and then the value and color properties would be expressions to show the correct 'character' (arrow) and the correct colour.
I have a list and inside this list I have a text box.
Since it's a list, the text box value changes for each row in the dataset.
OUTSIDE this list, I have another text box which is part of the HEADER.
I want the HEADER to change based on the value of the text box in the list.
In the text box in the header, how do I reference the text box inside the list?
To refer to any report objects you can use ReportItems Collection.
In your header textbox put a expression like this to refer to textbox in the list:
=ReportItems!TextBoxList1.Value
Remember SSRS is case sensitive. Make sure you get the right name of the text box object you are referring to.
MSDN article on ReportItems
I want to do multiple select and edit within a specified selection in Sublime Text 2. The following screenshot illustrates the situation:
When I select "element" and press Alt + F3 (in Windows) I can simultaneously edit all instances of element. However what I would like to do is to be able to edit all instances of element only within container-a while leaving element within container-b untouched. I tried first selecting a specific area but then as soon as I attempt to select "element" my first selection disappears.
Is this possible to achieve in Sublime Text 2?
You can simply use the Find in Selection option in the Find panel. Select the text that you want to search in:
then hit CtrlF to open the Find panel. Type in the text you want to find (such as element), then, in the group of buttons to the left of the text area, click the second button from the right - In Selection (highlighted in red):
Finally, either hit AltEnter or click Find All to select all the instances of element in the selected area:
and you're good to go.
Press Ctrl+D to select one more element and then one more again until you have selected all elements in container-a.
(Sorry my approach is very similar, but just a tiny thing to make it very slightly faster.)
Before you start, have the setting "auto_find_in_selection" to true, (This is probably only for SublimeText 3). This will have the "In Selection" button automatically done in most cases.
(if you are already under the word) use Ctrl+E (command slurp_find_string). This causes the word to be used in find box.
select the region you want (Ctrl+Shift+J should work nicely in your case)
Hit Ctrl+F, you will find all settings are right ("In Selection" on, your word in box already)
Just hit Alt+Enter and you are there.
For Mac, select what you want and then you can use --> cmd+ctrl+g
I am working with SQL Server Reporting Service. I need to change the colour of a parameter used with in an expression. I don't want to change the colour of the entire expression hence can you please let me know the best way to do this.
="Population Statistics for" + Parameters!TotalPatientCntInPractice.Label
I would just like to change the colour of Parameters!TotalPatientCntInPractice.Label
Assuming you have SSRS 2008 or above, you will need to set up multiple placeholders in your textbox.
See Formatting Text and Placeholders.
Right-click anywhere in the text box and select Insert Placeholder. In
the Placeholder Properties dialog box, you can specify an expression
as the value of your placeholder.
These allow you to have separate text sections in one textbox.
Once you have these placeholders set up in your textbox, you can apply different formatting to each placeholder, including a different colour to the placeholder which holds your parameter label expression.
If your using 2005 or below, your only really option will be to use two textboxes as suggested by #Yakyb in the comments.
Have you tried configuring to use another style sheet as in the following tutorial?
http://www.wiseowl.co.uk/blog/s296/css-parameters.htm
Then style .TotalPatientCntInPractice.Label from there...
Hope it helps...
Besides other options, You can continue to your single place holder and enclose the text you want to be set in specific color inside HTML tag with Color attribute set to whatever color your like. You need to tell RS to Interpret HTML tags as styles. This causes the field to be evaluated as HTML. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627491(v=sql.100).aspx
I need the control source for a textbox to simply be "x".
I have a bunch of textboxes on a report and I need each text box to just have an x in it.
You can set the Control Source property for the TextBox to be:
="x"
This will cause the text box to display an x in the report. However, its contents will not be editable as would be the case with a text box in a form.