I have graph report that is printing a lot of data on X axis. The output from the report is not adequate, there is not enough space between two points. For example if there 20 points to be displayed on one page, user can not see complete caption, they are overlapping. I want to set min space between points and print this report on more pages.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
There are a number of things you can do to help solve this issue.
1) In the chart axis properties you can set the label rotation so the labels appear vertically.
2) The other thing you can do is set an expression for the DynamicWidth property in the chart properties, based on the number of points on the x - axis
3) Make sure the interactive report size is wide enough to accommodate the maximum width of the chart.
The images below show dynamic width working
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I have a report with a tablix in it. I just need to stay the tablix in a fixed position and shouldn't push down other elements down it. If say there are 4 rows which will be visible in the specified space and if more then it should not be visible and shouldn't push down other elements.
I tried several ways to prevent
Added tablix inside a rectangle(act as a container) so if it grouped it
will not push down other elements (didn't work)
Enable consume white space in report=true (didn't work)
Keep items together property is set to true in rectangle (didn't work)
Is there any other way to not to pushdown elements in the report even if the tablix gives more rows. It should only show the rows in the mentioned size.
Edit : 1 (7/28/2018)
All the three elements below is pushed down if the table has more rows.
Either I have to fit the rows in this table by reducing the size automatically if possible or It should not push down the elements.
Also if the tablix has less row the elements will move up. I just need to keep the elements (Expr) should stay in the same position.
You still didn't post your design but anyway, here is what I think you want.
The basic idea to to set the area you want you table to cover by using a rectangle of the same size. Then we will reduce the row heights within reason as the number of rows in the table increases. As you cannot directly change a row height, we can get round this by setting the row height to be very small and adjusting the font, as long as the can grow option is on the cells will grow to fit the font size, giving the effect of changing the row height.
Basic steps.
Create your report and add a rectangle that is the maximum size you want your table to be. In my example it's 38mm high.
Create a table inside the rectangle. I find this easier to create it outside then cut and paste it inside, simply dragging it over the rectangle will not work.
Position your additional text boxes, under the rectangle as desired. Set 'Consume Container WhiteSpace' on in the report properties.
Next we need to decide what the maximum and minimum font sizes are that acceptable. In this basic example I only use 3 sizes, 10pt, 12pt and 14pt. If you want to use more then you could write an expression to scale the fonts more accurately but you get the idea.
You'll need to determine the maximum number of rows you can fit into the rectangle when the minimum font size is used, in my case it's 5 rows at 10pt font. Your query will need to take this number into account and never return more rows than this.
On the table, the click row selector for the detail row (this basically selects all the cells in the row). Next, change the font size property to an expression. In this simple example I used this.
=SWITCH(
Parameters!topx.Value <3 , "14pt",
Parameters!topx.Value <5 , "12pt",
True, "10pt"
)
Next set the row height, choose any cell on the row and set the height to something small, I used 4mm but it doesn't matter as long as its' smaller then you will ever show.
In my example, for testing I added a 'topx' parameter and filtered the dataset using this, but this is only for testing.
The final design looked like this. I added a background colour to the rectangle so you can see how it remains static until it's filled.
Then running with various rows looks like this
finally, only if I exceed my maximum (5 rows in this case) does the text below move down.
You could include a column (let's call it RowNumber) in your dataset that shows the row number of the data. Then in your Tablix filter, you can set the filter to show only values from that "RowNumber" column that are less than or equal to the number of rows you want to display in the tablix.
You can use the same concept to limit the number of rows returned in your query, but without knowing how you are getting the data, it is not possible to help with that.
If you want your report to be that static, why not take a screenshot of the data and include that as an image in your report?
No serious reporting tool will "ignore" records that you pass to it using a Dataset, so that's the place where you will have to "ignore" all unwanted data yourself. Restrict the data in the Dataset to only 4 rows (maybe using SELECT TOP 4 ...).
Quick Summary
I have an issue that only occurs when exporting my SSRS report to a Word document (something clients have requested). In short, when rectangle is shorter than its peer, Word inserts a page break even if there is plenty of whitespace left to render the longer column all on one page. I would like to resolve this so that Word takes advantage of the entire page when the peers are of different heights.
Layout
The highest level of the layout consists of three rectangles, as shown below:
The left and right rectangles are of fixed widths, but variable heights.
There is no extra space at the bottom of the Parent Rectangle; it expands based on the contents of the other two.
Each rectangle several other items and uses multiple datasets.
There are rectangles inside the rectangles, which group some of the child objects together.
Some of the controls are textboxes. I don't know the length of the text at design time.
Word Export Result
There is enough empty space above the footer to hold the entire left column, with excess.
If I open the document and manually enter empty lines into the right-hand column to increase its height, items from the left-hand column which have a height equal to or less than those line breaks will float back up to the first page. This is what makes me believe Word is cutting off at the shortest of the two peers.
Things I've Tried
Another thread suggested putting the columns into a table instead of rectangles, to force them to expand together. However, it required that they use the same dataset, which they do not.
Looked for CanGrow or ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace type options that could apply to rectangles, but couldn't find any. ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace is set to true on the report itself but makes no difference.
Attempted to create a function to dynamically set the inner rectangles' height, or the height/padding of a hidden textbox, based on the longer peer. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything for fetching the height at runtime; the functions I found all rely on knowing static data such as the number of rows (of a fixed height) in the sheet, but each column has several fields of which the height is unknown prior to loading data.
Extended the height of each rectangle to that of a full page by default and tried to find a way to make the elements inside consume this empty space as needed. The space was never consumed, and always pushed down, resulting in an extra page of whitespace.
Question
Is there any way to notify Word to use its available whitespace rather than cutting off at the shortest peer? I've been looking for a long while and keep coming up empty-handed.
Thank you!
How about instead of using a rectangle, you use a List with two columns?
I think the list will do better with pagination than the rectangle. YMMV - Not sure how it exports to WORD.
Put your left rectangle in the first column and the right rectangle in the second column.
Use the same data set and Group on 1 (the number) so there's just one row.
Had the same issue. I managed to make it work by adding a horizontal line that take the whole width of the main rectangle just below the two child rectangles
Created bar chart in SSRS in which horizontal axis labels are coming vertically, which i made them vertically by setting rotation 90 degree, but now problem is their height. how i will control the height of the labels.
Please any one know the property which will control the height tired to find but no luck.
If you click in the Chart Area, there are properties for CustomInnerPlotPosition. Within these properties, set Enabled to true and try adjusting the Height to your needs. These properties control where the inner chart area should start and how much space it should take up, as percentages of the whole chart.
However, it seems that the label fitting does not take these properties into account. If your labels keep the same font size etc. you may find that part of them expand off the chart's edges. You may need to adjust some other settings too, or use shortened labels, but the CustomInnerPlotPosition properties should help get the result you want.
http://www.douglane.net/fit-chart-labels-in-ssrs/
I need to shrink dynamically height of header on ssrs
I have found answer on: How to dynamically increase the page Header height in SSRS 2008 , but still I have problems as follows.
I have SSRS with several text boxes, (10 lines), and I want to show only one line for page 2 and after, and for page 1 - all of the lines.
I cannot shrink the size, because minimum size of header by default is the maximum element bottom position.
Can I control the size of height of the header dynamically?
Thanks :)
Page header and footers can not be dynamically sized. This allows support for more output devices but limits its use for many situations. A common work around is to use a Parent group above all others in your dataset that has a sql command that returns 1 row such as SELECT OneRow=1. You could place your header logic in this print once groups header and optionally show or hide the header based on first page last page etc.
I have a chart that I provide 16 records to. Currently, the x axis is datetime and the y axis is a numeric value that is plotted on a line chart. I set the interval to 1 so that it shows all the labels for the horizontal axis, but now it is showing 1 extra label on the far left and 1 extra label on the far right of the horizontal axis. The odd part is there is no data so the chart starts not on the edge but 1 label in and ends one label in on the right.
Just wondering if someone has seen this before I am using visual studio 2008.
I have created these charts before just never seen this issue before.
Exmaple pic. :
Setting was within the properties of the horizontal axis. Set margin property equal to false.