Related Items control(s) works when created from scratch and not modified.
Adding a new tab to an existing control breaks existing tabs, the new tab works.
Adding a new Related Items control to a view breaks the existing control(s), the new control works.
All Related Items controls in a view must be built in the same operation - and even this is not reliable.
By 'breaks' I mean displays the message 'There was a problem loading data for this tab' instead of loading data.
Is there a fix?
I'm experimenting at the moment with only a few tables but I have ~60 related tables to display in my main view and plan on using 6 to 10 Related Items controls to categorize them - it is painful to think that I would have to rebuild all the Related Items controls to make a small change.
Edit: Since 10 minutes ago when I wrote this I have added multiple Related Items controls (with one table in each) with no problem.
Edit: 1 hour later. I added more and it broke again.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d8yev41hex27i6b/Screenshot%202015-02-19%2014.13.03.png?dl=0
???????? How can I trust it?
Edit: A few more hours later - sometimes they don't have 'Add xxxx' at the bottom either.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vx7vb40g1931r98/Screenshot%202015-02-19%2017.16.12.png?dl=0
Thanks.
Reuben
Related
Okay so here is my problem. I have developed a framework which does the following:
If, for example, you have four webpages... but you only want to allow users to reach the "4th" webpage after progressing through pages 1-3 sequentially - I have built this functionality (basically I set an encrypted cookie keeping track of what the user has completed thus allowing to know what they should be able to access). There are two parts of it:
1) If a page does NOT have a quiz, the user must only visit the webpages sequentially to be allowed to view the 4th page in the "progression".
2) However, if a page has a quiz on it, the user must successfully pass the quiz to go on to the next sequential page.
Now... Here is the real biggie... The last page will often be a web form which, obviously, I only want an individual to fill out and submit if they have reached the form by sequentially getting to that last page in the progression... BUT I found a flaw in the system. If someone were to go completely through the progression and fill the form out... they could delete their browser's "form data" and go "back" to the form and allow a friend to fill the form out. That would be detrimental to the system, and the users who will be navigating this progression are GOING to look for ways to get around going through it.
Some of the suggestions I will probably get will not be possible given the larger framework I am in, but rather than list all of the impossibilities I would like to see what you guys thought would be a way of getting around this issue?
P.S. This functionality is built in HTML and ColdFusion.
Thank you for any feedback, it is a great help!
EDIT:
Keep in mind the user must be able to back track any previous page they already completed.
I'm creating a simple form using Chronoforms, but so far I haven't been able to solve a small problem.
I would love to load two or three fields in a search done by the autocomplete element, i currently have two autocompletes working, but i can't seem to be able to load the other values into the corresponding textboxes.
I'm including the link to the form
http://cfobb.ca/index.php?option=com_chronoforms&chronoform=nomination_form
and as it can be seen, the first two fields in the first tab are working autocompletes, but i would love to have them linked so when the user chooses in any of the two, the other automatically gets filled. That selection would also trigger another sql query (that i already have, nothing fancy) that would fill the School Name drop-down menu. Also there's this code in the help tab
$form->data['_PLUGINS_']['autocomplete_processor']['result'];
but i don't really know how to use/handle it
Thanks
I have a weird problem I have never seen before using Crystal Reports.
I built a complex PDF monthly report for a bank that generates over 200 pages. The specifications took months to adjust with the client but it works perfectly now, showing all the data it's supposed to, all sorted right and with the right headers.
But for some reason the report inserts quasi-blank pages rarely and seemingly randomly before it shows data. These pages aren't entirely blank, all my headers including group headers show, but no details. The correct data shows up a couple of pages later but these useless pages keep popping up in the report no matter what I do with Section Expert. To be clear the headers and the details aren't separated. The headers also display fine in the page with the right data, they just duplicate to the extra blank pages before that.
Here is a sample:
NO "insert blank page" box is checked in any of my sections except the uppermost level of data, which works fine, but these extra pages are not inserted at the end of each group for that level. They are inserted randomly sometimes right in the middle of a coherent section.
I also verified the "Keep Together" option, and it is checked for the 4 lowest levels including the details, so I considered data too big to fit on the same page with its headers but the probleme is rare, random and the data overflows perfectly when it does appear (as on page 3 in my example).
And checking all those boxes off didn't change anything.
There are no suppression formulas and the only suppressed sections are GH1 and GH2, but they are suppressed all the time, unconditionally. I tried adding a conditionnal suppression formula to the headers if there is no data, but the problem is, there is data. The headers just seem to be duplicated uselessly.
The problem doesn't seem tied to any specific change in header value. In my example it changes when the report hits Common Stock Equities for a certain portfolio but doesn't occur when another portfolio displays its Common Stock. And I check the data in my data source, everything is consistent between the rows of data that this happens to and those that don't.
I ran out of ideas on how to get rid of these extra pages. Anyone know what's happening in my report?
Thanks a bunch.
Try toggling 'Keep Group Together' for the groups to see if it has any effect. You'll find the option by right clicking on the group, choose 'Change Group' (to bring up the Group Expert), and on options tab.
This option is often overlooked since 'Keep Together' in the Section Expert is more visible.
(You may also want to look at turning off 'Keep Together' to see how that affects your report)
I have a metro application in which I have a Listview and service data contains above 100 items. Initially when am loading listview in my page it has to display only 8 items plus 1 more-related item and later if i click on a more-item it needs add another 9 items to my page and totally it has to show 17 items in my page and need to display more item also like that flow continues.What should I get to get my scenario.Can anyone help me.Below I tried to give u my scenario.
Thank you.
Take a look to this article: http://www.silverlightplayground.org/post/2012/06/10/Metro-Incrementally-load-GridView-and-ListView-with-ISupportIncrementalLoading.aspx.
There are a couple of solutions -- all depending on the work that you want to undertake. Also, I would suggest that you don't have a "More" button if you can help it -- it's not the best user interaction. Option 2 is going to give you the best experience.
Option 1
Use WinJS.Binding.List as your data source -- using this you can manipulate it like a JavaScript Array (e.g. push, pop etc). As you add & remove items from the list, the list view will react to those changes.
Full details are here.
Option 2
Create a VirtualDataSource derivation that is intimately aware of the ways in which you can request your data, and can offer up a consistent interface to the ListView. This enables your UI to be completely flexible to it's layout, and request enough data to satisfy the available space, while virtualizing the UI elements (better memory/performance), and the data (ensuring only the data needed by the user is requested.
Full worked example here.
I've been fighting with SSRS for too long now on what should be a simple matter. I'm hoping someone can help me see a solution.
I have a report which has a number of profiles, and each profile has a large number of data sections. The data sections (various tables and charts) are not related to each other in any way other than that they "key" back to the parent profile id.
The goal (which seems simple) is to have a header on each page with the profile information, and then have the data sections (each formatted completely differently) laid out.
The first problem we encountered was that for some reason SSRS2008 does not allow a tablix cell to contain another tablix with a different dataset (why it can't just require a filter based on the parent grouping is beyond me). The recommended workaround for this shortcoming is to either combine all data into a giant dataset (not possible here, data sections are too numerous and varied) or to embed subreports and pass in the parameters. While option number two increases the "work" needed to print a large number of profiles, we proceeded to implement this and it does work.
The problem comes in on the main tablix (the one containing the subreports) that has a static row header group set with "RepeatOnNewPage = true". This setting allows the header to show on every page as desired... except for subreports the span multiple pages, where the header is incorrectly ommitted.
For some reason, when the subreport spans multiple pages, the header of the parent tablix is not repeated! This is driving me insane as it would seem that a couple bad design decisions in SSRS has put me in a situation where I can't create the report I want... headers works without subreports, but I need subreports in order to "join" the data sections to the profile.
This would seem to be a simple and common requirement... after all, it's a report that is being migrated from a decades old reporting system. I've scoured StackOverflow and Google without success... I've seem a number of questions/answers about page breaks, but nothing that suggests a solution to this problem with subreports.
I'm posting this in case I'm missing something. If anyone has any suggestions at all, it would be much appreciated.
A very clean and simple way to repeat the column header on each page
http://www.a2zmenu.com/Blogs/BI/Tablix-headers-not-repeating-in-SSRS-2008.aspx
We've solved our problem... although not in the most ideal way.
The Page Header (of the "master" report, not the subreports) seems to be the only way to consistently have a header section.
We implemented a solution based in large part on this blog posting:
Maintaining State in Reporting Services 2008
We modified slightly from the blog post, removing "id" from the methods and including a GUID to ensure the report values are not mixed up even if the user runs several copies of the report at the same time. (When using shared variables, remember that they are global to the report running across execution instances and across users on the report server, so a lot of care needs to be taken when they are used!)
In the report body we have a hidden text block that calls:
=Code.SetValue("xxx",Fields!Field1.Value) & Code.SetValue("yyy",Fields!Field2.Value)
and in the report page header we reference these as (for example):
=Code.GetValue("xxx")
This works because the body is calculated before the page header, even for Page 1.
Still, in the end it is a hack for something that should be in Microsoft's product, given that they have poured years of development into this product! Why we cannot have nested tablix's and easier to use headers is beyond me... again this is upgrading a report from a program from the early 90's which did all this without problem. At the very least, give us report variables that can be retrieved and set as the report is processed!
Regardless, things are as they are... we've tested the solution with shared variables and it seems to be working very well. We're going to run stress tests to make sure it's implemented correctly, I'll post something here if we find any further problems.
(And if anyone knows of some other way to get consistent header rows on pages, even when there are detail rows with large heights, please share...)
We have faced exactly the same problem during implementation of customer demands on SSRS Reports,
And did try a lot of things which all of them resulted with failure.
In our case,
Main Report has 4 subreport. Each SubReport should be started in new page. And also when new subreport begins, page header should be changed dynamically based on Subreport in body in current page.
Also one of SubReports which was SubReport3 has another case. Basically Main Report was running based on Dealer level. But Customer wants SubReport3 to run for each SubDealer related with #Dealer parameter. Also Customer wants to see each SubDealer data started in New page inside SubReport3.
As a result, we found different workaround as follows.
We created Page Header to Main Report. (Report Menu -> Add Page Header)(As #codinginthevoid said it is most consistent way)
We putted 4 subreports inside separate tablix. We added new column to each tablix. That column in each tablix visiblity = false, width of that column can be as small as possible, then created placeholder inside of that column, wroted down expression as follows:
If expression is in Tablix1, expression was ="Tablix1", if in Tablix2 then "Tablix2" and etc.
Then started design page header for Tablix1, each report item in pageheader that was putted for Tablix1 has visibility expression as follows:
=ReportItems!Tablix1_HiddenTextbox1.Value IS NOTHING
then applied same thing for Tablix2 and etc.
In the end, there were lots of textbox in PageHeader of report and some of them position was completely same, overlapped, But when reports is being rendered, each of those textboxes is being shown it is related page with related subreport.
I have encountered the same problem as well. What I found was that the way to solve the issue was to de-normalise the data, adding a 'Record Type' field to identify whether the row was a parent or a child.
There were two sub-tables in my tablix, both displaying detail data linked to the outer grouping. If I set the headers of the sub-tables to repeat on every page (using the Advanced arrow > Static Properties > KeepTogether = True, KeepWithGroup = After, RepeatOnNewPage = True) then one of the sub-tables would display correctly, however the parent table's repeating header would just disappear.
To keep a long story short, this was a massively annoying problem to solve. The solution is simple, it worked for me, but may not work for everyone.
Linked below is a SSRS2008 example RDL that connects to localhost and has an example of the problem I had and also the solution I implemented. Please feel free to use it if you find it useful!
(I would've posted it on here but Stack Overflow fails for code blocks it seems)
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1111567-1633-1.aspx?Update=1