I'm very new to working with SSRS, and currently have an already created SSRS Report that displays a table of values. These values are grouped by an ID that can then be expanded if the user wants it. Basically, I'm looking for a way that I can export that row, and it's grouped data.
I know reports can entirely be exported by default, but I haven't seen anything anywhere on how to export only a portion of a report. Is this even possible?
Thanks for any help!
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I am pretty new to SSRS, so forgive me if I am asking something that is either obviously not possible (or easy) - I haven't found what I am looking for so far!!
I have a Detailed report, which splits by group onto multiple Excel tabs (pages). I also have a separate Summary report which outputs onto one page.
I want to merge these two into one report, so the users receive just one email, with tab 1 showing the Summary report and tab 2 on wards showing all the Detail.
The datasets come from two stored procedures and whilst related, they are different so I can't use the same dataset.
Is this possible in SSRS?
Thanks
Mark
Take your Detailed report and insert a subreport at the start of it. Set the subreport properties to point your Summary report.
If you have any manually set parameters in the Summary report, you'll need to set them up in the Detailed report (if they don't already exist) so you can pass the parameters to the subreport.
Now you have a single report with everything in.
I have a subreport I am trying to link into my main report. The main report pulls back information from one database and the subreport pulls from another. I could use lookup, but I lose the ability to format so I was hoping to achieve this with a subreport.
I enter a date range via my parameters, and let's say I get 30 client/matter codes back. It page breaks at the end of each row, so the data for each client/matter ends up on its own report. The goal is for me to output a large number of reports based on date ranges. The subreport pulls in folder names, and just like the other information, the folders for only that client/matter should be on that report.
What's currently happening is on each report, it just lists ALL of the folders for ALL of the client matters on each and every report.
I've tried making the subreport an adjacent group (which you can see in the screenshot) and grouping on Client code and then matter code. I've tried making the client code and matter codes internal parameters in both reports in the hope that it help filtered. I also tried just inserting the subreport into a cell inside the matter_code group but not as a group itself.
I apologize in advance if my explanation doesn't make sense. I'm having a hard time trying to put this into words.
From your explanation I would assume that you have a subreport in a group but you are not passing anything through to it. Have you tried passing through parameters to the subreport that uniquely define the customer and the customer folders?
I need to add a filter to a Report, that within anotherreport, the filtered results appear in the drilldown report.
For example: An .rdl file displays the first report, in that report a link can be clicked to access another report (.rdl) file. The report that displays after clicking link should be filtered by option selected from the first report(.rdl).
How could this be done? My thought that two datasets in each report could provide the information for the filter, however the filter expression is not valid this way...? I know this may not be the best way to do this.
So creating a drilldown report would be more acceptable. Creating one report and including a dataset with it by setting parameters to be called in the drilldown.
Does there need to be two datasets for each report to do this? I was assuming that the filter expression be written to do this: Field!.name.value AND Field!.name.value, etc to the whatever value I need to compare to or by.
Could this be a shared dataset to do this?
I was able to solve or partially solve this. I created a new report, with a query with the necessary columns that I needed in report 2. The drillthrough report(report 2) is linked from a textbox from a report allowing a user to view the information they need by clicking a link that displays the new report(passing the parameters from report 2 to the new report). If anyone has trouble with this, the simplest way would be to create one report and pass parameters to report two with parameters created from whatever query you want to use that has the values you want as columns in the report.
I have a report that contains several pages with graphs, tables and so on.
This report is used by different customers who always want small modifications to the report. At the moment if a customer wants a change on page 5 the whole report is recreated with the modifications, even though the only change is in the graph on page 5.
More so, some customers don't want to see page 3, others want a custom table at page 6.
My boss would like the report to be modular so he can simply switch parts on/off depending on what the customer wants. At the moment a change in a report means development followed by deployment.
My idea is to create a report with a number of subreports. Each graph/table would be a subreport so that if a change is needed we only need to change thàt specific subreport.
Ideally a dataset would be attached to the mainreport detailing which subreport to show: for customer X we would show SubreportX, Customer Y would see subreportY.
I know this can be done by adding all possible subreports to the mainreport and switching visibility per subreport but more elegant would be to dynamically decide which subreport to show. On drillthrough reports this is possible by using an expression to determine which report to open;
eg IIF(customer = X, "subreportX", "SubreportY")
but is this possible with subreports?
To be clear: I am looking for a way to decide dynamically at the moment of opening the report which subreports to show. Something like using an expression to get the name of the wanted subreport.
I have been searching for this (in VS2012 and through Google) but I cannot seem to find a definitive answer whether it is possible to decide at opening the report which subreports to show....
I found the following but again that seems merely to be using toggling visibility:
Dynamic subreport in SSRS 2008
I am very much hoping for suggestions, answers or even general directions. Thanks for thinking with me!
I would create a Dataset that returns the list of valid subreports for the selected Customer. I would add all the possible subreports to the master report. I would set the Visibility property of each sub-report using a Lookup expression, targeting that dataset.
All,
I've been working on a custom timesheet report that uses multiple datasets (8 to be exact). Each dataset selects the data by the same ID field which is currently input as a parameter. It works great like that. But now I'm told that the end user wants to input a date and have all the reports printed out for that date rather than having to enter in an ID each time. Each timesheet is 2 - 3 pages. It is intended to emulate a form and contains some data but a lot of blank areas to allow the field people to write in any changes that have occurred.
My question, is this: what is the best way of accommodating the new requirement? Should I build it all as one big dataset and use the date as a parameter?
Should I create a wrapper report that would prompt for the date and then use the existing report as sub report? Would that even work?
Is there any way I can just create a new date parameter and put that ahead of the ID parameter and get them to print out like that? I've got a few hidden parameter fields on the body that get used in the page header and are used to link some of the datasets.
any help is appreciated.
Easiest way to achieve this is indeed by creating a wrapper report with the date parameter. The data set in this report will then fetch all items (with ID) that match the query by the user. The report can then have a list for that dataset, with the original report as a subreport. If you pass the ID parameter from the dataset to the subreport you wouldn't need to change hardly anything in the original report.
Two things to watch out for:
the Report Header and Footer in a subreport are not rendered - these are only rendered for the wrapper report
you may need to tweak your page breaks in the subreport and on the new list in the wrapper report so each new form starts on a fresh page