I have a report in SSRS which I have build using report builder. So the thing is I want to have a pivot on the data and it works fine in the preview also when I export the rendered report into Excel. The issue comes up when I export the report into CSV. I have attached 4 images which will help in understanding my issue.
I am using a matrix to build the report which works fine when I export it into Excel.
This is the output of the report when exported into excel.
This is the output of the report when exported into csv
Can someone please help me with this?
Thanks
Unfortunately, that is how the CSV export works. It is not pretty.
More often than not, when it comes to reports that are more than just simple tables of data, the CSV data is almost useless after export.
Your best bet would be to create a report that is a little more friendly toward CSV exports, or avoid exporting to CSV if you don't have to. Excel tends to work much better for most exports.
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Is it possible to embed a .Net code in SSRS to remove CSV header from CSV file instead of changing report server configuration? As client is not ready to change rsreportconfiguration setting.
So you want to view a report from the report server and then export it as a CSV? These export functions are handled by the server and do not check or run any code from your .rdl file. So no, this is not possible.
One possible workaround might have been to rename the textboxes with the first row of data. But this doesn't work with numbers or blanks and it's not dynamic.
A better solution will probably end up being to ignore the headers wherever these are being consumed. If that's not possible, SSRS might not be the best tool for this job. Then you might look at generating the CSV with SSIS or some other ETL process.
The above is the Excel version that I've exported using SSRS, and have a look at below version, using same exact data, export to PDF:
Noticed there are certain records having a different milliseconds issues. Anyone have any idea how to fix it? PDF version is correct which align with the record from DB
I've found out the problem. Take second row for example, the data stored in DB is 14:02:16.899, when we export this data to excel, excel will automatically round it up while PDF will round down and hence the reason for the problem.
The solution I came up with was, on my query, format the transactiondatetime to have a consistent value instead of letting Excel and PDF rounding using their own mechanism.
Any other solutions or suggestions are welcome too
I am having a requirement where in I am creating some sort of packages. There could be one or two SSRS reports (RDLs per say) part of the package and then there could be some other pdf files included in that.
So in turn the requirement is to merge one or more RDL and one or more pdf files together and make it a single pdf and allow the user to download it.
I am not sure if this can be achieved as it is asked in SSRS itself. My question is specifically if this kind of things can be achieved in SSRS.
I have the other approach where in I export the reports store them some where, pick the couple of PDF files in question and store them in the same folder and then zip it and go from there but thats something is not really wanted.
Could you help me on this or guide me to some resources/approaches?
thanks.
You may need to play around a bit but one way to make it work is to place all your reports as sub reports into your main report.. so when you run the main report.. it runs all the other sub reports.. when you export this, it should export as one document. What is not clear here is, if they have different parameters etc for different reports (sub reports) or if they have any parameters at all.
I have a report that gets pulled and exported through sharepoint. Today I made some changes to one of the reports deployed those changes. Now when I render the report in sharepoint everything looks correct. However when I export the report in CSV format the column names revert to the aliases from the sql query instead of what I put in the designer for them.
Has anyone experienced an issue like this?
Any help is appreciated thanks.
I have seen this issue in the past with XML export. This may help:
Select the column, then open the Properties panel (you can also hit F4 as a shortcut)
Change the DataElementName attribute
Try export to CSV again
You didn't specify which version of SSRS you are using. This is a screenshot in Visual Studio 2010 / SSRS 2012:
I am calling reports through Data Driven Subscriptions. We are having very huge data (in millions). So the reports will be generating very large excel files.
We have provided download option to user for downloading created report excel files. But if file sizes are very huge, User is not able to dowload the files.
Does anyone have an idea how to split report data to multiple excel files. Does SSRS can handle it? After some size limit split data to next file. Like generate multiple files for same report call.
You can split the records into multiple shits by going to page break option in report properties.or you can go to tool tip and write custom expressipn there to how much data you want to see in one shit.
or you can use the help of SSIS to split the report into miltiple excel work book.
AFAIK there is no feature in SSRS that handles this.
You will have to roll your own solution: generate the report asynchronosly (or scheduled) server side, then create an application to distribute the files in seperate parts.