So I'm trying to export my SSRS to .CSV. The layout of my report is like this:
Everything does work fine, on my VS. However, when comes the time to generate it I get this:
I've read a few other post on Stack Overflow about how I can change my SSRS config for noheaders and ASCII. Thing is, people tried to set column names programatically, but here I only have expressions for cell contents and a current layout. Is there a way to make my CSV lay out look like my reportbuilder layout? Or is my problem the same as when people try to set the column programatically
For each data field you want to export set the DataElementName to match the field title and set the value to the DataElementOutput to output the field.
For the header textboxes set the DataElementOutput to NoOutput.
For more detail check the following microsoft link
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255251.aspx
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i have one problem with exporting to CSV format. In my report i user parameter to hide on field and it's working ok except for exporting in CSV format.
Column visibility is see like this:
=IIF(Parameters!ShowBonusLockingData.Value="False",true,false)
but this doesn't work in CSV. Can someone help me with this problem. Setting column property to NoOutput is not a solution, because that property never shows the column then
I am building an SSRS 2005 report using BIDS. My report filters on date. When the selected date returns no data rows the report is blank, just the title is displayed, no table or column heading.
How can I change this to display a message like No data available. or Report is empty.?
You could set the property NoRowsMessage available on the report's table control like this:
Select the Tablix control and press F4 to view the Properties pane.
Find the NoRowsMessage property and set the value to whatever message you'd like.
You can also to format the message using the Font and TextAlign properties.
Here are some examples of what the report will look like under various settings:
Further Reading: Here is a Technet article on how to Set a No Data Message for a Data Region
Avoid NoRowsMessage and build your own conditional empty row
One problem (or feature if that's what you want) with NoRowsMessage is that it'll literally replace the entire table with just a plain old message string.
Which provides a relatively counter-intuitive end user experience in my opinion. Normally when no data is found by a system, we'd like to know something about what data was being looked for and what it would have looked like.
Instead, based off how to keep the structure of the Tablix when there is no data to show, you can do the following:
Insert New Header Row, outside the group and above the details record.
Right click on the side of the new row and Set Row Visibility
Set Visibility to the following expression which will count the rows inside the current Tablix and only set Visibility to True if there is no data.
=CountRows() > 0
Optionally, merge the cells and add your own message or just display an empty row
Here's a comparison of how the various options will render: (pick whichever look you think best fits your data and use case)
Right-click on whatever databound element(s) you are using in the report and there should be a property NoDataMessage There are a host of options there but the Caption is the first element I would look at.
My 2008R2 SSRS report contains a detail column called debit which is formatted like "#,0.00". When I export the file via .csv the debit column does not always have the right formatting of 0.00. If the number is 0, then what appears is "0". If the number is 123.40, then it appears as 123.4. If the number is 123.44, then it appears as 1213.44.
I want each number in this column to always have 2 decimal places in the .csv file. I checked out many other articles on stackoverflow about this, but none seem to address this issue correctly.
I tried changing the format to many other formats. I noticed when I changed the format in SSRS to "C" for currency, then the 2 decimal places appeared. But the problem with that is my users do not want the "$" symbol.
I tried changing the CSV export to ASCII format in the config file, but that did not work.
I used the code here:Non-Unicode CSV Export from SQL Server Report Server
Can anyone help me with getting the format correct in the CSV file without mannually changing the CSV file?
Thank you!
The problem mentioned is report header's are being displayed when user generate report for CSV format, which is not supposed to be like that. But actually in CSV Format, While in the preview , we can hide or show report header's and it doesn't show textbox names .
While in the exported/generated one , the CSV format hides the report's headers, but instead of that it shows textbox names and any changes We made in the properties to change that textbox name to make it as blank or disappear, it reflects on that column values but doesn't on that textbox name.
So I want to mention that better We can give some other meaningful names or by default it shows as 'Textbox1', but we must give any valid name to that textbox name and it appears on the generated CSV format.
NOTE: I also want to mention that all visibility properties works well with the report header's but not on the textbox names.
I am building an SSRS 2005 report using BIDS. My report filters on date. When the selected date returns no data rows the report is blank, just the title is displayed, no table or column heading.
How can I change this to display a message like No data available. or Report is empty.?
You could set the property NoRowsMessage available on the report's table control like this:
Select the Tablix control and press F4 to view the Properties pane.
Find the NoRowsMessage property and set the value to whatever message you'd like.
You can also to format the message using the Font and TextAlign properties.
Here are some examples of what the report will look like under various settings:
Further Reading: Here is a Technet article on how to Set a No Data Message for a Data Region
Avoid NoRowsMessage and build your own conditional empty row
One problem (or feature if that's what you want) with NoRowsMessage is that it'll literally replace the entire table with just a plain old message string.
Which provides a relatively counter-intuitive end user experience in my opinion. Normally when no data is found by a system, we'd like to know something about what data was being looked for and what it would have looked like.
Instead, based off how to keep the structure of the Tablix when there is no data to show, you can do the following:
Insert New Header Row, outside the group and above the details record.
Right click on the side of the new row and Set Row Visibility
Set Visibility to the following expression which will count the rows inside the current Tablix and only set Visibility to True if there is no data.
=CountRows() > 0
Optionally, merge the cells and add your own message or just display an empty row
Here's a comparison of how the various options will render: (pick whichever look you think best fits your data and use case)
Right-click on whatever databound element(s) you are using in the report and there should be a property NoDataMessage There are a host of options there but the Caption is the first element I would look at.
I have a simple table based report in SSRS 2008, There are 10 columns and each column has a corresponding parameter to determine whether the column should be shown. I achieve this by setting the Column Visibility option you get when right clicking on the column header in design mode. In my case I choose to 'Show or Hide based on an expression' to which I set the expression to the value of a parameter which is a boolean type.
The functionality works as expected during the initial render however when I choose to export the report to CSV the visibility expression is either ignored or not evaluated because the columns show up regardless of the setting.
The visibility dialog has three options, Show/Hide/Show Or Hide based on expression - If I explicitly set Hide option the CSV export does not include the column as you would expect however if I use an expression it will - I even went so far as to make the expression explicit like '=True' and still it was ignored.
How do I get the export option to evaluate this properly?
Here's a solution by KarenH in the article Hide/Show Items Dependant On Export Format
Basically, you can set the DataElementOutput = NoOutput on the control you want to hide.
This worked for me to hide tables when exporting to CSV.
You cannot hide or omit columns for the export, using expressions. This is because the expressions will only get evaluated in the report itself, not the export.
a workaround would be to hide the columns by default and show all others using the expression.
my apologies, that above statement made no sense. It seems what you will have to do is make a parameter that will show which columns to hide or display, then when the report runs just don't display any data in those columns. You can also change the value of the column heading based on these parameters.
The only other option is to create as many reports with the different column combinations then load the correct one dynamically.
I believe this may be a bug. I have used the Reporting Services export with hidden columns dependant on a parameter at runtime. If I run the report with the columns hidden and then export the result to Excel or PDF or most exports formats the hidden columns are NOT exported. If I export the report to a CSV file, the hidden columns ARE exported. Surely this is a bug in the CSV export.
Logically they should all behave in the same way.