I have a group column in my report which I need to show/hide based on a parameter value. Since it's a group column, "Column Visibility" is disabled. I tried setting the "Hidden" property to true, but that leaves a white space which I don't want.
Can anyone please suggest me a solution for this? I tried for various solutions over the net, but none worked for me. Attaching a screenshot on the same.
Unfortunately, you're going to need a different strategy.
Changing the visibility isn't going to work without leaving the blank space and you can't make the entire column not visible because it's the main grouping.
Can you use a different column for the group so you can hide the Amount Received Date?
Or use an Expression to change the column to a different field?
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My company has reporting standards that require the lines of a table to alternate in color for readability purposes. I know how to do that, however the latest report that I am working on has conditional visibility on each line.
What happens is that the alternating background color gets applied to the table before the visibility condition gets checked, leaving a the report with no pattern of background color to speak of.
I have searched for any kind of setting to change when certain property expressions get applied to a table. There doesn't seem to be one.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
This article deals with the RowNumber function in SSRS. It contains an example of alternating row colors in the Tablix.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/report-design/report-builder-functions-rownumber-function?view=sql-server-ver15
=IIF(RowNumber("GroupbyCategory") Mod 2, "White", "PaleGreen")
I found the solution here:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/8365ca9b-7a50-4024-a706-4516ed12c038/how-to-maintain-alternating-row-background-colors-while-making-blank-rows-invisible?forum=sqlreportingservices
Instead of applying the formatting across all rows, I only apply it using the same visibility conditions that hides the rows in question. The example in the link uses blank rows where I will use some extra logic instead.
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)
I have a report containing a Tablix/table with sets of rows and columns which I am hiding conditionally using Expressions, via the Column/Row Visibility dialog.
If for example I have 3 columns which I want to all have the same Expression to determine their visibility, is there any way for me to achieve this without opening the Column Visibility dialog for each Column and entering the appropriate Expression?
I've tried selecting multiple columns, but then the right-click context menu no longer offers the Column Visibility option (it's greyed out) and I have also tried out the Hidden property of the columns (which can be amended in bulk by selecting multiple columns), but this only stops the columns from being rendered, leaving a blank space where they used to be (rather than how Column Visibility works, where columns to the right of the hidden columns are moved across to fill the gap, like hiding columns in an Excel sheet).
Is it possible to achieve what I'm after, or will I have to continue opening the Column/Row Visibility dialog for each column/row I wish to conditionally hide/show?
If the columns you want to control the visibility for are next to each other, you can create a Column Group for them and manage the visibility via the Group.
Add a new column group at the appropriate level so that only the relevant columns will be included.
If you already have Column Groups this will likely be a Child Group or an Adjacent Group.
If not, you can create an initial Column Group by dragging a Dataset field from the Report Data into the Groups pane.
Insert new columns inside the new group, and move the data from your existing relevant columns into the group.
The new group does not need to repeat, so in it's properties window set Group on: to a plain text value, e.g. "1".
Input the desired visibility settings into the Visibility page of the properties window.
For each of the individual columns inside the group set the Hidden property to False, to remove any other expressions or settings that might interfere.
Not exactly what you are looking for but perhaps a midway point - and this can apply to many things other than visibility (e.g. background colour, tooltip) - edit the RDL directly using View Code. This has the added benefit of being able to implement changes that are almost identical per column instead of identical with a minimum of mouse usage.
Typically I have set one column up the way I like it in the designer and then copy/paste under the other columns. In the case of visibility look for <TablixColumnHierarchy><TablixMemebers>. You will see a list of empty <TablixMember /> items along with the expanded <TablixMember><Visibility><Hidden>=... block where you have set up one column. Simply copy paste that block over the empty items at the position of interest (you will need to count it out unfortunately as there are no identifiers).
Bonus Tip: If you make a mistake or want to change something later, you can do a replace on all expressions at once (optional regex allowed).
Remember to backup or check in your work first because the designer may not open that report again correctly if you make a mistake :-)
Select the columns you want to conditionally hide and press F4 to see the Properties Window. Look for the Visibility node and use the Hidden property to set the conditionally expression.
The expression should evaluate to True for hiding and False for showing.
Let me know if this helps.
I am new to using SSRS. I have looked around Stack Overflow for answers to this question but haven't found it.
I am producing a simple report but wish it to be filtered to not display the result if it is a duplicate set of results.
Basic report
A lot of forum posts mentioned using code similar to the following to be set in the visibility of the Table Properties.
=IIf(Previous(Fields!Country.Value) = Fields!Country.Value, True, False)
However this didn't work. I then tried going to the properties box of the country to hide duplicates and this kind of worked. It removed duplicates if they were only in the next row and unfortunately it just made the cell blank.
Attempt at hiding the duplicate rows
What I wanted is to just display the list of unique values where the reference and the country are never repeated. This way I will get a list of countries for my reference.
Many thanks in advance to anyone who is able to help a new learner like myself.
I am adding in the edit suggested by Alejandro below,
It sort of works, the suggestion did remove the blank rows (which became blank when I applied the HideDuplicates from the properties of the country. The trouble is the report is only hiding duplicates if they come from the previous line. I tried grouping etc but it did not work.
Try selecting and setting the hidden property to the whole row.
UPDATE:
Using the expression works only if the Country column is sorted, so repeated countries will be in contiguous rows.
Go to tablix property and add a sort by Country property. Don't use HideDuplicates property but use =IIf(Fields!Country.Value = Previous(Fields!Country.Value), True, False) expression in the whole row.
It should work.
Let me know if you need further help.
It sounds like you just need to group the dataset, no?
If you open the row group properties, set it to group on Reference and Country.
Here are two tables... the first has no grouping and so there are repeats. The second is grouping by Reference and Country.
I have made a matrix report in SSRS with two column groups. I have added one of the column group also in the Row groups to use page break so I can have each column group on a separate page.
And you see in the following pictures the preview of what has happened with the output.
Page One
Page Two
You see that the page break has worked but it doesn’t hide the other column that shouldn’t be present.
Does somebody has a clue how to fix this?
I don't think just adding a page break will hide the column group's visibility. In SSRS, you can set visibility of a column group based on a condition. Right click on the column group, select Group Properties, Select "Visibility", and "Show and Hide Based on Expression".
You could set an expression based on a field or parameter value. For example, if a parameter value is such, the visibility is true, else false. Example:
=IIF(Parameters!"PARAMNAME".Value.Equals(value),false,true)
I would think in your case, if some a field was null or blank, hide the column group. The page break will take care of itself.
I have solved it with the list object in the toolbox.
I have put the matrix in the list and used a page break on the list.