This is not the greatest question, but I have goggled and hunted and pecked for several days and have not found the solution. Where within a SSRS report can a sub-report be placed? Are there any locations that it might seam invisible or be hard to find?
I have created simple sub reports, and can find many tutorials out there for that. This is my problem. I have to update and migrate an old report and its sub reports. I can only find reference to one sub report within the main report or its sub report. The first three pages of the report and the sub report I know of display fine. However on the last two pages of the report there are "Error: Sub report could not be shown." messages displayed.
I have not been able to find any reference to other sub reports. Where else could a reference to a sub report be placed?
The image below has selected a section where I found the reference to the sub report I was able to find. The rest of the areas appear as a "Rectangle" when I right click and I can find no reference to other sup reports in them.
.rdl files are actually XML files generated by the designer. And they usually have a pretty clean structure as well.
You can open these files in a text editor or by right clicking on the file in Visual Studio and selecting "View Code"
There you can use the usual text tools to look for item names. The Names of items can help you figure out what items in the XML map to what in the GUI: when you are back in the designer, you can use the drop down at the top of the properties window to select an item by name and it will be highlighted in the designer window.
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I added a new report to my SSRS project by right-clicking the Reports folder and selecting "Add New Report"
After selecting a sahred data source, the Report Wizard dialog displayed. I clicked through to the query page and added my custom SQL. The next page allowed me to determine where the fields returned from the query would be located in the report.
However, whether I put all of the fields in the "Displayed Fields" box or all but one, putting that one in the "Group" box, I cannot proceed - the "Finish" button is not active.
What must I do to be able to move on and proceed with the wizardification of the report?
I can reproduce this by attempting to create a matrix report. Matrix reports require at least 1 column,1 row and 1 detail line. Tabular reports don't have this requirement.
I have a main report main.rdl and 2 linked reports like linked1.rdl and linked2.rdl as a drill through report from the main report.
I have deployed all the reports under one folder in the report server.when i view the main report its working fine and drilling through the linked reports. but my question is how can i export to excel which contains main report as well as linked reports as separate tabs in the same excel?
thanks in advance.
The easiest way to do this would be to put a rectangle on your page and then add your linked report as a subreport inside the rectangle.
then hide the subreports unless exporting to excel by setting the visibility property on the rectangle to
=Globals!RenderFormat.Name<>"EXCEL"
or for ssrs2012
=Globals!RenderFormat.Name<>"EXCELOPENXML"
There are a few problems with this approach. (but these can be solved)
Headers and footers are not shown in sub-report
Performance. The sub reports will run each time you view the main report
the above assumes the drill through reports are only executed with a single set of parameters
imho SSRS is a presentation tool, Excel is also a presentation tool (in this case) so your chaining your presentation tools.
Why don't you call from excel your reports data source and drop it into each tab for each report..main sub whatever.
As your reports should be bound to a named data source (SQL\ view\ sp) for the report you would be calling that.
You can add your main report ....but you cannot add the 2 linked reports, they would show all records. So if you then make your linked reports, reports like main this would then work ie feeding them the key filter field...the children records for linked reports would filter and give you sub tab report you need.
If you cant do this then you have to rethink whole approach... if it was me I would code it so I got all three sets of data and then populated Excel with each tab...save n email spreadsheet
I've created an SSRS report in Report Builder 3 which contains a single-rowed Tablix that holds a sub report which produces a single report per page. The problem is that when I run the report it doesn't render the first page.
Within Report Builder I can never get this first page to display within the executed report and within the web forms ReportViewer control (v10.0.0.0) I can get this first page to appear when I page away and then back to it. Exporting the report also displays all of the correct data.
This issue has only started occurring since I made some slight changes to the layout of the sub report. I've checked the visibility on the tablix, group, row, sub report and all the other settings that I thought might be responsible, but they haven't changed since it was previously working.
I've also tried recreating both the tablix and the entire outer report based on an answer to a similar question and this didn't make a difference.
Any help with this issue would be much appreciated.
I was passing the data for my sub reports through as parameters to prevent the need to call 5000+ single line select statements, and it looks like they need a data set to execute to render correctly on the initial load. Previously, I had mistakenly left a data set within the report, which I must have removed when making the layout changes.
Creating a dummy data set with SELECT ' ' AS Dummy and then using that to populate a text box seemingly fixed the issue. It's not a clean solution but it works.
Am creating One report project. Where am having one normal report named (Report1.rdl) and one sub report named (Report2.rdl).
Am calling the main report in side the sub report five times by passing values through parameters. So I have five parameters as well. when parameter value is 0 then respective report will not show in the sub report. But thing is that when am doing this am getting blank pages at the end and between the pages as well.
So can You please help me With this. I have already checked with the sizes and clear designing of the main report.
You are 'calling' the reports in the incorrect order.
Main reports 'call' sub reports, not the the way you have it at the moment. Therefore you need to embed the sub-report inside the Main report. As detailed here on MSDN:
"A subreport is a report item that displays another report inside the
body of a main report. Conceptually, a subreport is similar to a frame
in a Web page. It is used to embed a report within a report."
I have several MS Access 2010 Reports that contain controls that reference other controls on other Reports. So, for example, if report1 has a text box called report1_textBox, and this text box gets its value from a text box on report0 called report0_textBox, then I set the Control Source property of report1_textBox to:
= [Reports]![report0]![report0_textBox]
I created a Form that the user can use to select Reports to open, and when the user selects a Report that depends on other Reports, my code opens those Reports before opening the selected Report. This works fine in some instances, but in other instances I get some strange behavior.
Going back to the example above, I encounter situations where even if I open report0, then open report1, the text box report1_textBox displays #Error as if report0 is closed or does not exist. But if I then just click on report0 and change its view then change it back, then go back to report1 and scroll a little, the text box report1_textBox "magically" changes from #Error to the proper value. I tried hitting the "Refresh All" button after opening the reports, and it does not update the text box.
Does anyone know of a way to fix this or at least work around it?
Thank you!
(Adding: Ideally, I do not want to open multiple reports like I'm doing now. If the user wants to view a report, I would like to only open that report, but from what I understand, if the selected report needs data from another report, that other report needs to be open. I can ultimately solve this by writing VBA code to execute queries, but I would like to avoid this, especially since I already have the data I need - it's just on another report. Does anyone know if it is possible to realize this ideal situation? Thanks!)
I would suggest going with VBA code for this.
Your question, actually, contains an answer (partial) - if you need data from another report that report must be opened first. However, the following code might help you somewhat.
You can open report(s) as hidden:
...
DoCmd.OpenReport "report0", acViewReport, , , acHidden
...
But again, I would recommend to write VBA code to pull the data using either existing queries from other reports or create new ones [queries].