I'm trying to write a report that reports based on the time of day (shift) and the day itself. I'm using three columns in the report, which I set in the reports properties without issue.
The issue that I am encountering is that after every day, and every shift, I must start a new page. So I put in a page break after each event, but all that I get is a column break.
How can this be circumvented to get an actual page break and not a column break? Why would they make it a column break to begin with?
I am using Visual Studio 2008.
Thanks!
You should look into using the Lists container in SSRS, it allows you to easily group by fields of your choice and then break in between each group. It is a common choice for reports that require one page per group, with data presented for each group. Inside your list container you'll be able to add a matrix or table to represent your data, in addition to any text boxes or other objects you need displayed on a per group basis. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239330.aspx
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I have a process that outputs multiple instances of the same report. Something like packing-slips for instance. Right now it is relatively slow because the whole process is done for each iteration. Creating the data calling the ssrs report, output it clean-up the report instance and data and start again. It has a lot of overhead and unnecessary repetition.
An idea i have is to create all the data beforehand and add a document number to the dataset so to differentiate between documents. And call the ssrs report 1 time to output all the documents contained in 1 big document. So all the documents separate with their own header and footer but created in 1 go and in 1 file.
The thing i am looking for is to iterate on document level.
Is something like this possible with ssrs?
I have been googling and is it something i could solve with sub reports?
Yes, you can do this with SSRS. The way I usually go about this style of a report is to first create a table with a single cell in it. Set the row to be grouped by document ID. Set the group to page break between instances. Now place a large rectangle inside the cell. Place all the elements you want to have on each page inside the rectangle. Note that you would not use actual headers and footers, just textboxes, tables, etc. No sub-reports needed.
Now when you run the report, you will get one copy of the entire layout per page and each page is naturally filtered to the containing document ID. Since you are letting the report split up the data for you, you can let your dataset be one large query instead of many smaller ones. This will drastically improve your efficiency.
I'm trying to create a label report in SSRS (yeah yeah I know, old school. Moving to 2014 shortly but need this report now) where all the labels contain the same data. Basically the user picks a single person from a list and prints a whole page of labels for that person.
There are a few ways to do this.
There is a multi-column property on the report body. It is in the columns[] property. You can select 1...n columns. This will duplicate your label x number of times across the page.
Add a table to the report and create X number of columns. In each column place a rectangle with your label fields.
In both cases your should bind your report to a dataset that returns the targeted user's label data repeated for however many number of times you need the repeaters to repeat.
I have an SSRS report that gets exported to PDF and then printed on to paper. The problem I am having is that I am getting page breaks in the middle of a group.
I have MetricGroup - MetricSubGroup and Details. Those are my Row Groups.
I have several different MetricGroups in the report.
I need to make it so that my report will not break in the middle of a MetricGroup.
So right now I get lets say 2 metric groups and half of the 3rd metric group on page 1. Page 2 contains the second half of the 3rd metric group and so on.
I need SSRS to push a metric group to the next page if the metric group does not fit entirely on the current page.
Is this possible to accomplish?
You need to use the KeepTogether option - but bear in mind this is a "best endeavours" process - for instance, you couldn't keep two thousand rows together on one page.
Another approach is to force page breaks and certain parts of the report.
To elaborate a little more on the previous answer, specifying KeepTogether = true for any given tablix member will try to keep all elements of that tablix member together.
So if you specify KeepTogether on your MetricGroup tablix member, SSRS will try to keep all elements of that tablix group together, and when it fails because the report spans multiple pages, it will page break where it likes, resulting in groups breaking up over pages.
If, however, you specify KeepTogether on your MetricSubGroup tablix member, SSRS will try to keep all of the subgroups within a MetricGroup together, which will result in the parent MetricGroup trying not to break on a page if that were possible.
I'm spelling this out explicitly because there's a common degenerate case here - a report without any groupings but with a complex details tablix that generates with multiple rows per data record. Trying to specify KeepTogether on the details tablix will try to keep all of the details together, introducing unexpected page breaks.
In this case you'll need to generate a details group as the immediate parent of the details tablix and group by whatever the report identity is. Then you can specify KeepTogether on the details tablix and it will keep together only the members for one single data record.
I'm using VS2005 to create my reports.
I have a matrix report that works beatifully. I have country going down on the left hand side (row group called "matrix1_country_name") and data going across for 2 column groups, product_node and month (column groups "matrix1_Node" and "matrix1_calendar_month_name" respectively)
The only thing I want to improve is that this report will always show 5 year/60 months of data, and with multiple nodes I'd rather have each node be on its own page (Ideally I'd love to have it on the same page but in the rows just below to first node, but I'm not sure that's even possible).
I've seen numerous responses on these boards about putting in page breaks on column groups, but I can't seem to find how to do that in VS2005. The examples I've read that can do that seem to have a different interface so I'm guessing they aren't in VS2005.
Does VS2005 allow you to add page breaks after each group item and I'm just missing it? Or is there a trick I can do to get that to happen? I've also read about nestin matrix reports in list reports but that seems more complicated than doing the page break on the column group, so I'd rather do the easiest solution if I can.
Ah, I see pagebreaks are ignored on column_groups. Well I guess I'll try one of these workarounds.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/ea9d795b-8d17-41d2-a1d7-a4069ebb4539
I am using SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 to generate invoices. The user selects a batch and each invoice in the batch should print out 1 to a page. Each invoice should contain the summary of charges at the bottom, preferably in the footer to keep a consistent position.
Problem is, it won't allow me to put tables or subreports in the footer. All I can do is put text boxes, but the only data I can get in there are aggregates pertaining to my dataset as a whole. I can't get subtotals for just that invoice within the batch.
Basically my setup is a tablix that is grouped by invoice number with a page break between instances of the group. This ensures each invoice prints to its own page. But when I try to add a text box to the footer to subtotal THAT invoice, my only option seems to be First(Fields!SubTotal.Value, "DataSet") or some other aggregate. I need the subtotal for THAT invoice number whether it be the 1st or the 5th.
I don't know if I'm explaining this very well. I'm sorry if this doesn't make any sense.
I suggest you change your approach a little bit:
Instead of adding a subtotal outside of the tablix, add a total to the bottom of the group. Insert additional lines in the group, but outside of the detail(or subgroup) rows that are repeating within the page.
Page footers aren't very tightly connected to the data or its layout, so they will be trickier to keep sub-totals within. If you really need to do it this way, then you'll need to keep a running total in some embedded code in the report. Start with this example and add additional code to zero out the running total at the beginning of each page.