I've inherited a pretty big report. The RDLC file is over 11,200 lines of XML.
In Visual Studio, it is easy to find the relevant element for a bound value in the raw xml (simple Find operation).
Is there a way to find that cell in the visual designer?
For example, if I know the cell has a TextBox with a name SupervisionLevelName61, is there a quick and easy way to locate that in the Visual Designer view of that RDLC file? Perhaps a keyboard shortcut which gives that cell focus?
Obviously, manually searching for that cell, given the name of the Textbox, takes far too long owing to the sheer size of the RDLC file.
Thanks
I found the solution:
At the top of the properties window you have a dropdown field. Within this dropdown field you see all the the elements within your current section (in my example I'm in the document body).
When you click an item, the design-view will focus the item like in the next screenshot (see the orange bracket).
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When export excel in ssrs, it is showing the exact report downloaded in excel. But I need some customisation to add additional rows and text above the downloaded excel, not in original report. Please guide me.
Not sure this is feasible or not.
This site having some kind of code, but not sure it can work for my need or not. https://reportsyouneed.com/export-excel-without-making-mess/
Add all the elements you need to your report, the hide the ones you only want showing in Excel by setting the hidden property based on the render format.
So you can do things like
=Globals!RenderFormat.IsInteractive
If the above was used as the Hidden property expression it would hide an the item if you were viewing in an interactive session.
You can also do this...
=NOT(Globals!RenderFormat.Name = "Excel")
This would show and element only if the report was rendered as Excel.
I'm using SSRS (specifically the Report Builder) for generating some fairly basic reports from SQL Server 2012. Report Builder 3.0. When I add a field from the database that is stored as rich text (with the tags and all), it simply displays all of those tags right on the report, instead of showing the properly formatted text.
I've dug around in the tools as much as I can, and can't find a way to get that field to display in a formatted way.
Is there a function, or setting, somewhere that I'm missing that will get the text to display properly?
I don't believe it's possible to display Rich Text in an SSRS report.
You could render the Rich Text to an image file, and then display the image on the report.
However, it is possible to use HTML markup which could also be of use to you.
To add HTML from a field in your dataset into a text box
On the Insert tab, click List. Click the design surface, and then
drag to create a box that is the size you want.
The Dataset Properties dialog box opens. You can use a shared dataset or a
dataset embedded in your report. For more information, click Dataset
Properties Dialog Box, Query (Report Builder) or Dataset Properties
Dialog Box, Query.
On the Insert tab, click Text Box. Click in the list, and then drag
to create a box that is the size you want.
Drag an HTML field from your dataset into the text box. A
placeholder is created for your field.
Right-click the placeholder, and then click Placeholder Properties.
On the General tab, verify that the Value box contains an expression that evaluates to the field you dropped in step 3.
Click HTML - Interpret HTML tags as styles. This causes the field to
be evaluated as HTML.
Click OK.
Source: MSDN - Add HTML into a Report (Report Builder and SSRS)
This means you have a couple of options:
You could write a function that removes the Rich Text tags, leaving you the plain text to display.
Render the Rich Text to an image file and display the image on the report.
Instead of using Rich Text in your dataset, you start using HTML markup.
Write a function that replaces the Richt Text tags with equivalent HTML styled tags. This would be a little more work but still a valid solution.
I have a html file with some images in a directory. I would simply want to open a report and show the html file (including the images) inside the report. Is there a way to achieve this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I've found this : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd207057.aspx. Tell me if it's useful? ;oP
To add HTML from a field in your dataset into a text box
1.On the Insert tab, click List. Click the design surface, and then drag to create a box that is the size you want.
The Dataset Properties dialog box opens. You can use a shared dataset or a dataset embedded in your report. For more information, click Dataset Properties Dialog Box, Query (Report Builder) or Dataset Properties Dialog Box, Query.
2.On the Insert tab, click Text Box. Click in the list, and then drag to create a box that is the size you want.
3.Drag an HTML field from your dataset into the text box. A placeholder is created for your field.
4.Right-click the placeholder, and then click Placeholder Properties.
5.On the General tab, verify that the Value box contains an expression that evaluates to the field you dropped in step 3.
6.Click HTML - Interpret HTML tags as styles. This causes the field to be evaluated as HTML.
7.Click OK.
Alright, this is what resolved the issue. I am converting the html to a image using CutyCapt and storing the image in the database as a blob. In the report I have a image control which refers to the image and this works fine.
Hope this helps.
Thanks everyone.
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.
I have a large report that I built in Report Builder 3.0. The report consist of several tablexes and several (800 - 1000) textboxes. When I get an error in an expression, the system says I have an error in Textbox205 for example. Is there an easy way to find "Textbox205"?
When using Visual Studio, at the top of the Properties window there is a drop down box with all the objects on your report in it. You can find and select the object in there.
One technique is to open the .rdl file in a text editor and Ctrl-F search for the text box name. This will take you to the xml attributes of the textbox, which usually allows you determine which textbox contains the problem.
I typically click any element and then start pressing tab till I find what I am looking for.
The element name will be displayed in the properties window:
You can right-click on the report(.rdl) and click "View Code". This opens the xml file in Visual Studio.
You can search the number in the xml file.
With Visual Studio, you can see the Document Schema (Ctrl + Alt + T) with View > Other windows > Document Schema. It will appear a window with a tree view of the full report.