I have a number of SSRS reports that contain various charts and/or gauges. All reports had been displaying the charts and gauges correctly. Now, none of the reports display any chart or gauge; just a blank space where the chart or gauge is supposed to appear. Yet tables in the same reports continue to display correctly.
In between it all working correctly and when the gauges and charts stopped displaying, I had gone into Reporting Services Configuration Manager and into SQL Server Management Studio so I may have inadvertently changed something that has caused the problem. But what? I've spent ages trying to find a cause but no luck.
I have even created an entirely new project and created an entirely new report containing a chart and a table. Same problem - the table displays correctly but there is just a blank space where the chart is supposed to be.
Because it is affecting all reports (even ones that I haven't touched and new ones that I create), it seems as if I have unwittingly changed some setting that is now causing Report Viewer to not display gauges and charts (but continues to display tables).
As I say, it had all been working fine.
Any suggestions as to what could cause this problem across all reports or where to look for the cause of the problem?
Thanks in advance.
I re-installed SQL Server (just ran the installer in repair mode - ie, without uninstalling first) and all the gauges and charts are displaying correctly again. I have no idea what the problem was.
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I at my whits end.
I have spent the last couple of days building a very in depth and mildly interactive report in Visual Studio 2015 (yes, I know but SMT wont let me upgrade to later version).
The report work fine in VS2015 but when uploaded to Dynamics 365, it is empty. The very odd thing though - the 'blank' report has the right number (3) pages however they are empty other than the header and footer.
I have a few Parameters that the user can choose from and it is the first time using these (just to set viability for a few tablix).
I don't even know where to start with searching this - all the results I am getting relate to reports having extra blank pages at the end but nothing about just coming up empty but still having the right number of pages.
I'm sorry that this seem (is) a bit of a wishy washy question. I just dont even know where to start asking for help...
EDIT: The problem appears to be with EnablePreFiltering="True" If I disable this, the report will run and return many many many pages and they are all formatted correctly. I have built my report so that everything is inside a single List which I apply the current users record to. Again - the problem is here somewhere.
Edit: (Wine has just been opened and the laptop charger is out - going to be a long night)
I have a main report which is having multiple subreports. Each subreports are supposed to occur in a seperate Page when exported to excel or PDF. This is working fine in the Production. But recently we have migrated the same RDL from production a New server. Nothing got changed exceptfor Data source connection. But surprising issue is, the report which is working fine in Production is not behaving as its supposed to. The subreports are not occuring in different page. Infact 2 subreports are occuring in single page and the other two in the next page. Dont know what got changed and why the page break is not working here. Can Anyone help me with this?
I've returned to our reports collection after a couple of years away, and added a new report which has a simple tablix containing a few columns, but many rows from the dataset.
The problem is, the report (in Preview in VS, and when run on the Report Server) only shows some of the rows returned by the dataset, and doesn't enable the page navigation icons in order to scroll through the data to access the rest.
Where do I find the settings which control these things, please?
UPDATE:
Looking at some pre-existing reports, it seem that these exhibit the same problem - it would appear that SSRS can only display about 5,000 rows regardless of how many the dataset contains.
There is a 'hidden' setting in the XML code (not available via the UI AFAIK) called InteractiveHeight. Removing this line resulted in the paging starting to work
I've never seen this problem before.
The report elements are not updating from changes made in the Design mode in Visual Studio (2015). It's not a data issue - even static text box changes are not appearing.
I had removed the Member ID column, combined the last and first names into a single Member Name column, added a couple of columns and renamed SEX to Gender. Here's the Design view.
These changes should appear when I click on Preview but Visual Studio displays the old report.
As I mentioned, I haven't seen this before and haven't found any similar issues when using Google-Fu. I have tried restarting VS but that was no help. The only thing I did to get from the first pic to the second is to press the Preview button in Visual Studio. I've been trying to make it update for over half an hour now. I've updated and created hundreds of SSRS report over the last 15 years but have never seen or heard of this issue.
Is there some new preview caching that SSRS is now doing? It seems similar to the dumb data caching issue but I don't see where the report would be cached. This is completely ridiculous - what moron would create a caching for something being developed so changes can't be viewed?
How can I see the correct preview in my SSRS report in Viusual Studio?
I am trying to print a report that contains a bar graph using the report viewer, but running into an error. My reporting server is running SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services SP3 on Windows Server 2003 SP2.
Here are some steps that will reproduce the problem (at least for me)...
On a clean machine, I open up the
report, and it displays fine.
I then click the print button, and I
am prompted to install the
RSClientPrint ActiveX control. The
control downloads and installs fine.
I then click the print button again,
and the print dialog appears.
I select a printer, and click "OK".
A message box appears that has the
following text (including the
spelling error)...
An error occured during printing.
(0x80004005)
Any other report I try to print works fine. The only difference between this report and the other ones is that it contains a bar graph. If I remove the graph from the report, redeploy it, and then re-run it, it prints without getting that error.
As far as I know, it is not isolated to a specific machine. It happens to every customer I have talked to, and a variety of machines here in the office.
Has anyone seen anything like this? I have seen similar posts on the web suggesting to uninstall video drivers on the reporting server (thinking the GDI dlls have become corrupt ), install service packs, etc. I have tried every suggestion, but haven't found a good solution yet.
Thanks.
I ended up having to use a paid Microsoft incident on this, but it is resolved now. The issue was that I had a matrix in my report that had dynamic columns. Depending on exactly which date range you picked, the report could have n number of columns. In my case, when a date range was chosen that produced three or more of these dynamic columns, it would cause the matrix to become too large and run outside of the margins of the report.
The report would run and display fine with the matrix being too large, but the incredibly non-descriptive error would display whenever the report was printed or exported.
I resolved the issue by reducing the size of other columns and the overall font size in the report. This prevents the matrix from running off the page in the case of date ranges that produce three dynamic columns. It doesn't solve it in the general case (four or more columns will make it fail), but is good enough for my current purposes.
Microsoft didn't have a fix for the general case (such as a way to make the matrix fixed width).
I figured I should answer this in case anyone else runs across it.
-David