I have modified a sales invoice report of Dynamics AX. When I deploy and open report in Ax it shows that report has 1 page, but if I export it as PDF or if I print it out then it has two page, first page as it should be and second extra page only with header / footer. I tried to reduce size of header / footer but the problem isn't solved and also if I reduce them fields are moved from wanted positioned as we use pre-printed papers to print reports.
How can I get rid off extra unwanted page?
Often I find that problems like this are related to the page size, report size, and margins. Take a look at the Report properties and take note of the page size and margins. Make sure that in the Body properties of your report, the size is less than the difference between the page size and margins.
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Im working on a Report with a coverpage. So the body has no margins and the full page is useable.
The report also has no Headers or footers because the coverpage must cover the whole page.
For tablix i set a row with empty textboxes to get white space between the page border and the tablix. But if a tablix gets so much data that 1 site is not enough, the data will go to the very edge of the page and start at the very top of the new page.
How can i enter space at these points so data isnt at the edge of the page?
I was unable to find a method that worked in this case.
So the BackEnd dev requested for me to split the two reports into the Coverpage and visual data area. That way i can have footers and my colleague simply merges both reports back together when its being requested.
I have seen some mind-binding situations with SSRS reports in my few years of using it, and I've been able to design around most issues and get it to do everything I've been asked to do.
But apparently, not something extremely simple!
I'm using Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7.2 with the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Designers
version 15.0.19124.0 installed. There's no data bound to the report, this is just a simple design concept.
I have a report that has a static custom page size (in centimetres), interactive size and no margins (12.8 x 17.8cm).
The body size is deliberately set to make it a two page report (2 x the page height).
'ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace' on the report properties is set to true.
Page 1 has an image, consuming the entire space of Page 1 (size of 12.8 x 17.8), with a Text box placed near the bottom right of the image (overlaying it, but not exceeding the width or height of the page, and is set to not grow).
Page 2 is exactly the same, with the content starting where Page 2 would and should start (0, 17.8). However, the Page 2 content is set to hidden (hidden = true, on both the image and the textbox).
When previewed, the report renders two pages, one of which is blank.
If I take the Page 2 content textbox off, and preview it, the report renders as one page (as I need it to).
The same issue occurs if I replace the textbox with a Rectangle or Tablix (the two objects I really need to use in this report as well as the textbox located where it is) and set them to hidden.
Moving any of these objects to the top of Page 2, still results in the same behaviour.
It seems that certain objects, despite being hidden, have space allocated that can't be 'rolled up / truncated / shrunk'. Is this 'by design behaviour'?
Is there some form of magic-witch-craftery I'm missing here to get this to work, or simply something I'm not understanding... ?
Thanks for reading!
Note: So far I have tried the 'Switch to inches, then back to centimeters' solution mentioned in other posts along these lines, have varied 'Keep together' properties, checked 'CanGrow' and 'CanShrink' property changes - all of which have not helped find a solution.
The report body should be set at most wide enough to fit on your output page and long enough to hold all your report items. When you want different items to appear on a new page, put them in a container with a page break set either before or after (whichever is most appropriate). This can also be handled in a data driven manner using page breaks on table groups.
There is no requirement to have white space within your report design to 'fill up' the rest of the page on the rendered report.
If you want anything to appear at the bottom of the report, simply put it in the footer section. If you want specific things to appear at the bottom of the page of different heights on different pages, that is more of a challenge and will usually require some clever data driven spacers within the report body.
This is most likely an easy question to answer but for whatever reason I'm not seeing it. I have an SSRS report (8.5 X 11) developed in Report Builder 3.0 SQL server 2008R2. The report just has a header section and body. The body consists of 3 tablix objects; each table can have 1:N rows and any of the tables can have enough rows to cause the report to print a new page. The margins are all .25 inches and the width of the report is causing no problems. However, when it is printed I am getting the 1st page with the header data and a page of table data, the 2nd page prints just the header data, the 3rd page prints the header data and the rest of the table data, and the 4th page prints just another page of header data. Why are the extra header pages being printed? Thanks for any help.
What is most likely happening is that part of your report is too wide, and the extra space is printing on the second page. It's usually the report body (it can change as you add columns to your tables) - I would check that first. Just look at the properties and make sure the width isn't wider than what will print on your page.
If you're having trouble identifying which section the extra width is coming from, try changing the background colors on the header, body and footer sections. Set each of them to a different color, then print the report to pdf. You’ll see the colors in the pdf and be able to identify which one is too wide.
Im building out an SSRS report for a client and when i build it, seems to be fine. when I print or do a printer preview however, the report and its contents are being printed over 4 pages rather than all on one page. I could use some help as I dont deal with SSRS that much.
Thanks
In the designer you should open the Document Outline view. The basic structure for a report is something along these lines:
Report
-> Body
-> Control / tablix / subreport 1
-> Control / tablix / subreport 2
-> etc
-> Page Header
-> Page Footer
If you select the Report item, the properties pane will show you several important properties:
Page Size (for printing and pdf renderer)
Interactive Size (for other renderers)
Margins
These properties determine on what sizes the report should be printed. If you select the Body item, you will also see a Size property. That size could grow, depending on your tablixes, because they may expand horizontally and vertically.
Basically if your body size is larger than the Page Size (and margins) allow for, the printer will render additional pages. You should play around with those values to fix your issues, I'd think. Looking at your example screens you could start with:
decreasing the margins
changing the page size so it becomes landscape
play around with positioning in the body to fit more content on a page
I tried creating a report using a sub report. When I exported it to PDF I have noticed that there are extra blank pages in the PDF.
I made it clear that body width + left margin+ right margin <= report width.
But still it gives the blank page. sub report as individual working great.
Also I am calling the sub report from with in a list in main report.
I tried to set up a page break after list . but it looks like its not working.
I want the next list displayed on a new page.
How do I achieve these.
There is no single property available for this in SSRS. You have to check for couple of settings
In report properties, set "ConsumeContainerWhitespace" to TRUE
In tablix properties, set page braek location to NONE
IF still the issue persists, check alignment/margin of objects like rectangle,tablix etc.
A few things to look for:
Check the "parent" and subreport for any controls that are in your margins (or may grow into the margins). Setting the width doesn't necessarily force the controls to that width.
check for any controls that overlap. I've had strange things happen because of that (especially in SSRS 2005).
checking the "Print Layout" while previewing helps find most issues like this at design time (before exporting to PDF).
For the hard break with your list not sure what is goofy there. I usually use a table with groups and set the page breaks on the appropriate group. Depends on the data though.
HTH
Check top and Bottom margins, for me reducing.1 of bottom margin solved the issue.
In my case (with Report Builder 2017) the solution to get rid of a blank extra-page was to reduce the width of the body.
The body can be selected by clicking on a free space in the report on the same height than the Tablix is located.
You then get the "Body properties" shown in which you can reduce the size.
The size of the body should be less than page width - left margin - right margin.
For me it was a problem with the sub report's width which caused extra blank pages in the exported version. Reducing the width solved the issue.
If still someone having an issue with blank pages in PDF, just increase the width of the main report to a few inches. Keep reducing to an optimum value by checking the report. No need to change anything else.
For me when I increase the width for pagesize report from 21 to 23 cm,
It was not generating extra empty page. Because of few elements total
size of my report's element was greater than 21 and less than 23, that
is why I changed to 23cm and works for me.
In my case I have only one page and I was working with .rdl file.
When exporting to pdf and the report contains a sub report where the sub report is grouped on an item from parent report.
Do not use the list control in the parent report to group sub report. Use the table control.
The list control will cause blank pages while the table control does not