Main issue i am facing in most of the reports where i have multiple sub reports for each main report in most of the reports,Couldn't possibly align the sub report borders with the main report.
Sub report and main report both are dynamically increasing.
Thanks in advance.
Unfortunately, that's largely correct. Tablix column widths do not dynamically adjust, and subreports do not have direct visibility of their parent's properties regardless. That means that you can't set up fixed width reports with %-width columns, and you can't make subreports autosize to an element of their parent report.
That being said, there is a potential method for simple tables. However, it is moderately involved and a little limited:
You can create a number of "spacer" columns and set their visibility depending on the distinct count of your column groups. This causes each table to end up the same size. You would need to set up your row headers as an adjacent group so that you can toggle their column visibility. You'd also need to set up the columns to be uniform size across tables.
This would require you to know: The maximum number of columns that could be generated (so you know how many spacer columns to create). And the current number of columns to size to, unless you just size to the maximum every time. If that current column number could be determined in the parent report, it could be passed to the subreports as an internal parameter.
The setup would look like this:
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I have a report with one input parameter, and based on that input, the report will have 1-3 different categories present. My issue is the report layout consists of the following elements: A header, 3 tables, and a bar chart.
What I am trying to accomplish is to repeat the above layout with ONLY categories available to the input parameter without leaving unnecessary whitespace. I've tried to achieve this by copying and pasting the layout three times and hiding the elements if the category does not exist. This works partially as I'm left with blank pages.
Instead of filling the report with a bunch of tables, try adding rows to the 1st table, adding a rectangle in that row, and adding a sub-report in the rectangle. Set the visibility of the rectangle instead of your 2 tables. This will ensure that there are no unnecessary white spaces.
Adding more than 1 table to a report has almost always ruined the layout of my reports. I've always added sub-reports instead. Even if you don't want to add a rectangle, just add a sub-report in a new row of your ONE table and that makes it a lot easier to deal with.
Using SSRS 2013. I am able to hide columns with boolean values, but the report (body) width does not shrink when columns are hidden. Thus, there is excess blank/white space to the right of the report. Is it possible to eliminate this excess space? If yes, kindly will you please advise how?
The report body width - as with any column width and unlike heights - is a set value that cannot be changed on execution. You need to either put up with the white space, format your presentation layer to not be affected by the appearance of the white space or redesign your report so the objective of hiding the columns can be achieved in a different way.
I ran into this exact same limitation of SSRS. I was able to achieve what I believe you are trying to get (consistent report and report col width when certain columns are hidden due to parameter vals, etc.)- by simply having 2, separately formatted report tablix/tables in the report and hiding/showing based on a parameter (or some SSRS-expressible logic):
1 for the condition when all columns are present; 1 for the condition when some columns are omitted- both of them formatted to utilize all available screen real estate to minimize white space and make things look "clean".
Instead of hiding column(s) when my hidden condition is true- I simply show the 2nd tablix and hide the 1st. And when the filter changes to show all columns, I do the reverse (hide the 2nd tablix and make the 1st visible again).
Not sure if that helps, but I figured I should share if it might aid anybody else facing this issue.
PS: Your tablix Hidden expressions will look something like this:
[the full column tablix].Hidden
=iif(Parameters!parmOmitSomeCols.Value = true, false, true)
[the tablix with some columns omitted].Hidden
=iif(Parameters!parmOmitSomeCols.Value = false, true, false)
Hi everyone,
I wanted to adjust the width of a tablix column dynamically. can some one please let me know how can this be done? when i searched some forums there was a suggestion that i try creating an instance of the report in the CODE of the report properties and access the tablix column using the instance but i wasn't able to do that. Can some one please help if indeed i can try creating an instance of the report and access the tablix and adjust the width dynamically ?
Thanks,
AJ
On the off-chance that anybody is still looking for a way to have dynamic column widths in SSRS (as I was), I've found way that works for most scenarios.
Basically you add another column header to your table/matrix/tablix and set your column to your minimum required width, then add a subreport to the new header. The subreport consists of a matrix with a static row group and a dynamic column group that generates a number of fixed-size columns based on the desired width, which is passed via a parameter from the main report to the subreport.
e.g. Your main report has a column where you want to set the width from data or a parameter, which is in a range from 5 to 10cm, with increments of 1cm. Let's say for a particular column you pass down 7cm to the subreport, which then does a basic SQL loop to produce some data with 7 rows. The matrix column grouping in the subreport points to that data, which produces 7 columns, each 1cm, for a total width of 7cm (plus the row grouping which is shrunk as much as possible). The main report's column then expands to the size of the subreport, which is 7cm.
Select the first column, in properties, find the width property (under size) add an expression that uses the same condition for hiding column 3 and increasing the width of the first column, e.g.
=iif(parameters!par.value=true,"1,5cm","2,5cm")
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I'm very sorry my previous solution was false, I hadn't checked it, I'm sorry to have wasted your time, but I have a solution that works.
create two first columns, i.e. two columns that show the same information, one that is the width that you like when column 3 is visible (lets call that one col1a) and one that is the width that is suitable to when column 3 is hidden (col1b) and then make those two alternate. then when you hide column 3 then you also hide col1a and make col1b visible and then the other way around
There is no property to auto size the column width. Length we can do it dynamically. That is the limitation Microsoft tools.
For now, one solution is to have a reasonable fixed column width (such, as 30) and set the textbox CanGrow to True so it wraps to next line if needed. Another solution is to have two columns and hide one of them conditionally.
Help me please.
A Tablix has 7 rows but I need to increase height of tablix until it matches the footer.
What should I do?
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According to below figure, I tried to insert a lot of blank rows to a Tablix.
And I used an Expression for setting visibility each row.
Example :
-If Dataset has one record. One Blank row will hide.
-If Dataset has two records. Two Blank rows will hide.
But It is inflexible because some rows aren't a single Line.
Using RDLC 2005 you can simulate this behaviour with:
a Body section with Body.Height = Page.Height - Footer.Height - TopMargin - BottomMargin
a Tablix without border
a Rectangle for every column to simulate with Rectangle.Height = Body.Height; set its RepeatWith property to Tablix
In order to simplify some operations you could put your Total textbox in the Footer or consider it when you build your Body section as explained before.
There is an example of what I mean (Tablix with red border and Rectangle with black border):
Another, though more complicated way, of forcing the height would be to use Subreports for each of the columns.
Each Subreport would list the table contents for that column as a single list.
You could then force height of a single table row to reach the footer... If the Subreport does not require the entire space it will return whitespace
Parent Report
Report 5
Report 4
Results in the following output report
I have a report where I've specified the Columns property to 3.
I want the data I have from a single query to spread across these columns.
When I print the report however, I just get a single column that spans across multiple pages till the rows run out of data.
How do I tell rs that I want the data to wrap into the next two columns?
UPDATE: Ok, found a link on technet to give me a better explanation of multicolumns (e.g. newsletter style):
Multicolumn, newsletter-style reports
display report data down multiple
adjacent columns. A newsletter-style
layout applies to the entire report.
When you define more than one column
in a report, Report Designer
calculates the width of the columns in
the report, the width of the report,
and the width of the space between
columns based on the number of
columns. It then displays a reduced
design surface so that you can place
report items on the report that will
fit within the column. Note that the
layout of the entire report must be
placed on the reduced design surface.
Additional columns are displayed so
that you can verify that the number of
columns you defined will fit the page
size dimension. You can adjust page
size, padding, and margins to fit more
columns on the page.
Only PDF and Image renderers support
newsletter-style reports.
I still haven't quite figured out how to make the column wrap...but I'll look into it further on Monday.
I addressed my issue by:
Putting 3 Tablix in my SubReport
Adding a Count Aggregate in my SQL results
Doing % calculations in the Tablix filters
For example, Tablix one has a filter formula like this:
=IIF(Fields!MaxRowNumber.Value <= 10, 10, Fields!MaxRowNumber.Value * .4)
So, if only ten rows are returned, display those ten rows in column 1. If more than ten rows appear, then put 40% of the results in Tablix 1.
I do similar calculations for Tablix 2 and 3 to display the 30% in each Tablix respectively.
Feels like a bit of a hack...but it works.
So one approach is to use multiple tablix with a filter that checks RowNumber and accordingly displays particular records in each table.
The other way is called Newsletter-style report (link). This formatting is retained only when report is exported as PDF or Image. It can be previewed only when you select 'Print Layout' on the Preview tab in Visual Studio. Here is an example:
Create a new report with the foll. dataset: SELECT ID,NAME FROM TABLENAME
Add a new table to the report and select the ID and Name as columns
Click on the tablix and press F4 to edit the tablix properties. In the properties window, change the Size - set the width to 2in
Click on the report area outside the report page boundary and press F4 to edit the report properties. In the properties window, change the Column value to 3, and column spacing value to 0.1
On the report scroll to the right hand side, you will notice that there are 2 new columns (so totally 3 columns on the report - because you selected 3 in step 4 above). Now click on the margin at the start of the column 2 and pull it further to the left to bring it as close to the column 1. This is only to reduce the need for huge page size.
Right click on the report area outside the report page boundary and select Report Properties. Change the Page Size - Set the width to 10in
Preview the report. Now select the 'Print Layout' tab to see the result. This formatting is retained only when report is exported as PDF or Image.
As noted in points 5 and 6 - since the report body flows into multiple columns, you must ensure that the page size is at-least equal to -> ([Original report body size times the number of columns] + all the column spacing values). Otherwise it will look messy.