I have an SSRS report with 5 Tablix data regions. All but first tablix, have "Notes" column which can have huge amounts of text in it. I have set CanGrow properties of these cells to be "True".
But when I export the report to an excel file, row size has not increased to show full contents of Notes. I see that, it works perfectly when I keep only one Tablix. It fails only when I have more than one Tablix.
Any help? Thanks!
When have multiple tablix in your report, after you exporting into excel, it will automatically keep the tablix original position and size to other tablixs. So it may not change the row height. I think this issue is more related to Excel cell setting.
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I'm stuck with SQL 2014 because reasons. I have a subreport with this structure:
The intention is to have a page break before each table of parts destined for the same warehouse. This works perfectly when I view the report in Report Builder or SSRS. But when I export to PDF, the break before the first warehouse is missing, as if I had selected BreakLocation "Between" instead of "Start."
Is this a known issue? What's the workaround?
I stumbled upon a workaround. I added a tiny row at the top of the subreport table, outside the group. The row simply contains an empty textbox. The row must not be hidden, but the textbox can be, so you could add some text to explain why it's there.
The rule seems to be that if the very first thing in a subreport is a page break, it will be discarded. But why this only affects PDF export remains a mystery.
I have a table in ssrs 2008 like:
What my problem is, when I execute the report and export the output to the excel, I see that there is a mess for the excel columns, and somehow some of the columns are not used, they are blank. Please see the screenshot below to understand better:
I need the table start from Column A in excel, and not merge columns I-J-K. I could not find why this is happening. Any help I would appreciate. Thanks!
When you export to Excel, it tries to honor your layout and make things look the same as they were when you designed it. To get rid of the first column, make sure your table is aligned to the left of the report. In the table properties, you can check the Location measurements to make sure it is 0.
For the columns I, J, and K: that is happening because of other elements on your report such as a header textbox etc. Make sure that the edges of your other items line up with the edges of your cells in this table to avoid those extra columns. When you drag the edge of a cell you should get a blue line when it snaps to other objects. If that doesn't work, sometimes you have to resort to calculating the exact positions and set the Width values manually.
I've a SSRS page which has header, two charts with different datasets and a subreport below charts.
When I run the page and drill down (I click on one of the bars of chart, it calls itself) and data populates in subreport which spans multiple pages.
My problem is I want to repeat those charts on each page. I've searched and tried a lot However nothing worked forme.
How can I repeat charts in multiple pages of subreport? Please note that I've got charts with different data sets and that subreport is used at multiple places.
Thanks for the reply mike.
I believe it can not be achieved using subreports. hence, i embedded that subreport tablix into report and did as suggested by mike(charts went into header row).
Since tablix accepts only single dataset, i created a big dataset that has all the fields for two charts and data and applied required settings to get the job done.
It worked for me(at least to get the job done.).
I had a report that after each record (customer), I put a page break so that each record got its own numbers in one page. I also wanted to add a graph specific to only that customer. So i added the graphs into a table. In the table where my graphs were place, I added a parent group group - the same group as my data and I checked that the table also had the page break on the same group. This separated each record into a page each and also added the graphs to its corresponding record.
I would try to wrap the two charts and subreport inside a tablix. The dataset for the tablix would be one that returns a single row.
The two charts would go into the header row(s). The subreport would go in the Detail row.
Row and Column sizes need to be expanded to fit the chart and subreport sizes. There may be only one or two Columns depending on your layout.
Then I would use the dreaded "Advanced Mode" technique to get the header row(s) to repeat on each page, e.g.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robertbruckner/archive/2008/10/13/repeat-header-and-visible-fixed-header-table.aspx
I am creating a new report that needs to show data in two columns. I did the following:
Report Properties: added the second column
Insert a List control from the toolbox
Insert a rectangle inside the List control
Insert a textbox inside the Rectangle
When I click on Preview tab, the report only shows data in the left column and then continues to the 2nd page in the same way instead of using the 2nd column.
List controls are not really needed. If you place the data in two tables or textboxes at the same height, they will display next to each other. If you have to, place both in a rectangle or set the KeepTogether property.
This is because it only works in "Image" and "PDF" export formats. From the relevant documentation on columns (emphasis mine):
Columns are only applied when you render and print reports in PDF or Image formats.
The "Preview" window doesn't use the PDF or Image renderer.
Personally, I'm a little surprised that it hasn't been implemented in the MS Word renderer, but I've tested this and indeed it doesn't work there either.
A little earlier in the same documentation, it hints at the inner workings of the "columns" feature:
...For example, suppose you have two columns on a physical page. The content of your report fills the first column and then the second column. If the report does not fit entirely within the first two columns, the report fills the first column and then the second column on the next page. ...
My guess is that in the Preview window, you'll never get to the end of a physical page, so the content never flows to the second column. If you export to -say- PDF, you'll probably get the behavior you're expecting.
Note that the columns do actually have to fit in the report, make sure your report's and report body's width and margins are set correctly.
I am facing a very weird problem while creating a report in SSRS (I am using sql server 2012 enterprise edition).
This is the structure of my report:
Report columns are in Page Header section, not in tablix header. (I
had to remove report columns from tablix header because I needed my
report to freeze it's header or its column after exporting to excel.
This freezing in excel could be done only when columns are in Page
Header)
Tablix has fields with several groupings.
Now what happens, when I run the report and if any field having a larger string value than the size of tablix cell, it grows badly in width. That makes my report looks ugly. Columns in page header are not aligned with their rows in tablix. Tablix goes out of the report actual width .
For getting rid of this problem, I tried making CanGrow=false of every cell in tablix. I then tried deploying the report, but failed. I got an error: "Report definition is invalid".
The problem is, I can't set CanGrow=false to cells in tablix then how would my report remain stable. How would my columns be aligned with the data in tablix.
I just do not want the cells to grow in width that they are doing right now.
Attaching a screen shot of the report I saw when I have a larger value in a cell. This value is a whole word.
Please help me out. Any help appreciated.