I cannot find any helpful article online. I'd like to know what the maximum amount of pages one can have in an access report. I'm currently on page 3 and I cannot get the footer to move down anymore.
I found one answer at DataBaseZone.com but I am unable to add any mroe fields because there isn't any space.
The article you found is correct. A report's detail section has a maximum height of 31680 twips, or 22 inches.
A report can also contain a report header, a page header, a report footer, and a page footer. All these have the same maximum size, and these sizes can be added to that of the main report.
Continuous reports (that repeat for every row in the table) have this limit per row, and don't have an absolute limit.
It seems unlikely (and a little horrific) that you've filled all that space with controls, and still lack space, because that's a LOT of space. Be sure to use the properties pane to set the height of the detail section to the full 22 inches.
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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
I'm looking for a way to increase the number of rows per page in an SSRS report beyond 50. There are dozens upon dozens of guides on changing the rows per page via a parent group that breaks based on a CEILING(RowNumber(Nothing)/X) calculation, but every guide I've come across seems to be focused on decreasing the rows per page, and I want to increase the rows per page.
If I try a number higher than 50 for my breaks--CEILING(RowNumber(Nothing)/100), for example--it still caps the rows per page at 50. Using a number below 50 does work. Is there a report setting I've missed somewhere?
A bit late, but today I was trying to do this same thing.
I managed to do it by going to Report Properties -> Page Setup and increase the Height property.
Report Properties can be opened by right clicking in the blank space outside the report working area.
Depending on the Height will be the number of elements in the page, in my case I was able to show 100 rows per page with a Height of 21.5in
No matter where you set pages breaks, if the content exceeds the page size then the page will break. I'm assuming that you are viewing on screen only in which case you need to increase the height of the report's interactive size property.
In SSRS usually if the table is larger than the page and not able to fit in one page, then it spreads to the next page. But in my case I want to have the entire table in one single page, instead of breaking the table across multiple pages.
I tried with Rectangle container and also tried providing height of the SSRS Report to 0 inches, but still no luck.
Is this possible to do in SSRS, if yes need some help to know how to do...
Go into Tablix properties and check "Keep together on one page if possible"
Make report height 0 too.
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 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.