Wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I currently have a report with 5 sub sections of data, each surrounded with a Rectangle.
I am wanting each sub section to appear on a new page and then be able to export to Excel and each section to appear on a new Tab.
I set Page Break / Break Location in each Rectangle to "Start" and label the PageName to what I want to call the Tab. When I run the report the 4 subsections show correctly but I am left with a blank page before I get the 5 section, but when I export it to Excel it appears correctly.
What I want is 5 pages in the report for each section and when exporting I want 5 tabs, can someone tell me where I am going wrong with setting the pagebreaks if that is indeed what I am doing incorrectly.
Thanks
As you are successfully exporting to Excel, but not the report viewer, this suggests your report and page sizes are not correctly set up on your 4th subsection.
When you have report elements that are slightly too large for your report page, the parts that 'overhang' will generate a new page of just the part that overhangs. This is often a very small amount of white space, so it looks like the page is completely blank. When you are exporting to formats such as excel, this does not matter so you correctly see the page breaks as new sheets.
To check whether this is the case, add borders and fills of different colours to all your rectangles and then run the report. On your 4th 'blank' page, if you see any colours or borders you will know which rectangle or report element is growing beyond its page.
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I have seen some mind-binding situations with SSRS reports in my few years of using it, and I've been able to design around most issues and get it to do everything I've been asked to do.
But apparently, not something extremely simple!
I'm using Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7.2 with the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Designers
version 15.0.19124.0 installed. There's no data bound to the report, this is just a simple design concept.
I have a report that has a static custom page size (in centimetres), interactive size and no margins (12.8 x 17.8cm).
The body size is deliberately set to make it a two page report (2 x the page height).
'ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace' on the report properties is set to true.
Page 1 has an image, consuming the entire space of Page 1 (size of 12.8 x 17.8), with a Text box placed near the bottom right of the image (overlaying it, but not exceeding the width or height of the page, and is set to not grow).
Page 2 is exactly the same, with the content starting where Page 2 would and should start (0, 17.8). However, the Page 2 content is set to hidden (hidden = true, on both the image and the textbox).
When previewed, the report renders two pages, one of which is blank.
If I take the Page 2 content textbox off, and preview it, the report renders as one page (as I need it to).
The same issue occurs if I replace the textbox with a Rectangle or Tablix (the two objects I really need to use in this report as well as the textbox located where it is) and set them to hidden.
Moving any of these objects to the top of Page 2, still results in the same behaviour.
It seems that certain objects, despite being hidden, have space allocated that can't be 'rolled up / truncated / shrunk'. Is this 'by design behaviour'?
Is there some form of magic-witch-craftery I'm missing here to get this to work, or simply something I'm not understanding... ?
Thanks for reading!
Note: So far I have tried the 'Switch to inches, then back to centimeters' solution mentioned in other posts along these lines, have varied 'Keep together' properties, checked 'CanGrow' and 'CanShrink' property changes - all of which have not helped find a solution.
The report body should be set at most wide enough to fit on your output page and long enough to hold all your report items. When you want different items to appear on a new page, put them in a container with a page break set either before or after (whichever is most appropriate). This can also be handled in a data driven manner using page breaks on table groups.
There is no requirement to have white space within your report design to 'fill up' the rest of the page on the rendered report.
If you want anything to appear at the bottom of the report, simply put it in the footer section. If you want specific things to appear at the bottom of the page of different heights on different pages, that is more of a challenge and will usually require some clever data driven spacers within the report body.
I am building a label report that requires the user to input a Bulk Order Number that will generate multiple labels. When viewed in preview mode and on the report server, images on the report for postage and company logo appear on every instance of a label (report page).
However when exported to PDF, these images only render on the first label (page)
I considered this may not be an issue, as the user could print from the report server when accessing the report. This isn't the case, as when trying to print, report server creates a PDF for you to print from. There are no other options regarding printing other than page size and orientation, a PDF seems to be the only method from which you can print from.
The images I use have the visibility controlled by parameters, so you can select 1st or 2nd class postage, and choose to have the logo visible.
Each image also has the RepeatWith property set to the Tablix that contains order and address details.
When exported to word, the labels all appear as desired with postage and/or logo images on each instance. This is a step I would like to avoid, as it would be much nicer to have the user print directly from the report server, even if this still requires a printer friendly PDF to be created.
I have attached am image to show PDF output.
Any ideas how I can get these images to render on each label (page)?
EDIT
Image of design page
Based on the design view image you posted, it looks like the only thing repeating is your tablix containing the address information. The SSRS RepeatWith property doesn't seem to work well with .pdf exports so the workaround for this would be to drop everything into a single cell on a list object and grouping using the Order_No to repeat everything. This should remove the need to mess with RepeatWith and give you the desired results.
I have some SSRS reports that are generated via a subscription. They Get PDF'd and dropped on a share. The way the report was designed there is a potential for one record (or row if you will) to take up more than one page. I would like to know if it is possible to insert a blank page only after a single record/row takes up more than one page. This includes not showing any headers or footers on the blank page.
I've tried adding a text box with a form feed character to the end of the page, which did not work. I also tried creating a text box that is wider than the page (using an expression to control it's visibility) but that just forced the body of the report to be larger than the report's width which caused blank pages to show up everywhere.
Any help would be great.
I have a report is ssrs, it consist of a main report which has a header containing the page number and 2 sub reports (report page 1 and report page 2) within a tablix. Report page one comes first, then report page 2 displays on the next page after the end of report page 1. The subreports can be anywhere from 1-3 pages. The page numbering is reset between each set of report page 1 and 2 (so if page 1 is 3 pages and page 2 is 2 pages, it goes from page 1-5, then resets). These are called for each record (with grouping) from the main reports' query. The report is around 1000 pages total. It renders perfectly on screen, but when I try to export to PDF, it will sometimes (like 1 time in the 1000 pages) display part of report page 2 on a page (as expected, the page number matches with it), then it will start printing report page 1 of the next group on the same page.
Here is the layout of the main report:
Here is the document outline for better understanding:
And here is the page that is wrong...
This is what it should look like (the last page of sub-report page 2 even has just the total record like the broken one!
I have tried everything I can think of. I have tried (i think) every combination of page breaks on the rectangles and groups, I have tried making a tablix with 2 rows using the same group and again tried every combination of page breaks. I have tried changing the number of records on a page. I have tried changing the consume whitespace option on both sub and main reports. I have tried adding both calculated and random amounts of white space. I have recreated the report from scratch a couple times. I'm sure there's more, but it would be like going through a full feature list of SSRS... Basically, I tried everything I could think of, then everything suggested in the links on the first page of about 10 different google searches. I just have no idea what is going on with this, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Let me know if you need any more info, screenshots, or whatever and I will try to provide. It may be highly "redacted", but I will provide anything I can.
Thanks, Kevin
Try check the setting "Between each instance of a group" in group properties of tablix.
Try checking your XML for empty TablixRows (which will not show up in the Document Outline). I found with my report that empty tablix rows screw up page breaks in subsequent rows / sub reports when exported to PDF. Where possible hide the TablixRows or insert and empty text box.
This appears to be a bug with SSRS when editing the XML by hand. The Visual Studio GUI seems to not let you delete the last element in a row - perhaps this is a work around. An error or schema validation message would have been nice for us hand coders!
Hope this helps.
I need to display a Textbox in the body of the report, but it has to be on a separate last page. It is actually a Word file that needs to be shown in each report, but seeing as how the only way to accomplish this is to put the file to the Report Server and then access it with a link, I decided to copy the contents of the file to a Textbox.
This and this question on SE are similar, however it is not exactly what I need.
You can achieve this by adding items with appropriate page breaks to the report.
Say I have a simple report with a table and a textbox:
The end result looks about what you'd expect:
However, we can force the textbox onto a new page by embedding it in a Rectangle and setting the Rectangle to always be preceded by a page break:
Now the report displays the textbox on the last page:
Tables themselves can also have page breaks, but since it's just text with no dataset it makes sense to me to use a Rectangle here.