I have an SSRS report which is being used to print to a dot matrix printer for shipping (paper has boxes that I need to print info into). It has a header including customer address, despatch address, date, order no. etc. Body has product, description, quantity, Footer has No. of Cases/Containers. Problem is if I have a customer with a long address etc. it screws up the formatting of the report. How do I create absolute fixed regions for printing? I would rather the customer's address was just truncated rather than screwing up the formatting of my report? Thanks!
Right click the text box, go to Text Box Properties. Untick "Allow height to increase". Drink beer in celebration.
not sure on the layout of your report so this might help if you dont want to truncate.
report has a property, ConsumeContainerWhitespace. by default its set to false, this means that when report items like textboxes grow they retain the whitespace and push everything else down.
set to true they will (yep you guessed it) consume the whitespace instead. preserving the position of other items.
though if there is no space for the textbox to grow into then the other answer provided offers the best solution
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I'm working on a "contract format-like" rdlc report, which will have four tablix with variable numbers of rows. This report also have a fixed "last page" that is set to do a page break "always".
What I want to achieve is to "span" some element to gave the impression that the remaining white space between penultimate/before last and last page won't be written/added with any more info in the future (as we use to do by handwriting/completing, in the past). The ideal object could be a transversal line (I think that's not possible in my research). Also I have found some workarounds that take in count the "number of rows" of each tablix and do and approximation height, then add the "needed" rows to the end of the last tablix but that's not quite the solution I'm looking for.
Please look the attached image for a better idea of the line desired location:
Explanation-Layout-And-Variable-Height-Meaning
I hope you can advise with your experience on this (even if not the solution some idea of how to achieve it).
Thanks in advance!
Unless I'm missing something....
If you wan to simply add a page break and then a 'blank' page...
Just add a rectangle under your last tablix.
Make it short vertically, (the width does not really matter as long as it's no wider than you tablix). Move it so it's close to the last tablix (say 5pt below)
Right-click the rectable and choose properties. Now set the properties of the rectangle to "Add a page break before"
This will force a page break after the last tablix and then push the empty rectangle onto the next page giving the impression that it is blank.
I have a report with a tablix on the right side and several textboxes arranged in rows and columns on the left. While previewing the report, the tablix gets expanded with the separate values in them and because of which some of the text boxes are also getting pushed down leaving blanks spaces and making the report look unformatted.
I have attached the report format. Please let me know if you have any solution to this issue.
You need to place your report items in rectangles to stop them interacting with each other. Put your items on the left all into the same one and the table on the right into it's own.
Have you tried setting the Can Grow attribute to False or did you need it to expand? If so I would actually increase your Tablix size to the max it can to not push the text boxes and then set the property to Can Grow to false.
I think I know why rectangles didn't work for you. I have a similar report I am trying to create with the same format. I had the same problem you mentioned where white space appeared above my report objects, and the objects on the left still did not appear in the correct places.
What I found was that you need to create the rectangle first and then add objects into it. It appears that the above problem occurs when you try to place a rectangle on top of your report objects.
I know this is 4 years late, but I thought this might hopefully save someone some time.
Go to Report Properties to select columns number from 1 to 2 to see information side by side instead of going to next page.
Report Properties
I'm trying to produce a pay check. I will allow the user to setup the position of the items according to their check style.
From my research, it seems that the position of text boxes in SSRS is static and not dynamic. There is no "expression" option for Top/Left. I thought a way to get around this might be to make the text boxes large and overlapping and then set the padding top/left based on expressions to the positions that user has selected. However, it seems that similar to HTML, the text boxes either float around the higher level text boxes or simply drop out of view.
This would be simple if there were a way to tell SSRS not to be concerned with the order of the text boxes and simply display them overlapping, however I don't feel that there is.
Given that, what other options to I have for dynamically positioning text boxes in an SSRS 2008 report? I'm moving right along with this project but I've hit this stumbling block.
SSRS gives you a lot of options for dynamic formatting but Size and Location are fixed. You cannot change this. Overlapping of textboxes does not work in the soft-break renderers like HTML and Excel but does work in hard-break renderers like PDF or TIFF. Have you tried your padding technique and output the report as PDF?
I'm not sure what are going to do in your report, But in similar cases I usually use Space character to position a text. For instance,
IIf(Len(Fields(YourColumn.valu)) > 10, Fields(YourColumn.valu), " ")
Note that you have to ensure it can implemented in your case or not. I'm not sure that it is helpful but as long as the location and width properties are fix this is the only option
Note 2 : I'm using Unbreakable Space character instead of simple Space so that SSRS render it without any problem
I have a report with a bunch of controls in the Detail section.
I am working off a word document that was given to me as a sample and I recreated it in access almost perfectly. What I need now is a way to handle overflowing the text boxes. I have "Can Grow" enabled, but here is the real issue:
I have a fake table going on. Multiple text boxes arranged in a way that just doesn't work in a subform. Certain cells have red, green or yellow backgrounds while others are just plain white. When one of the text fields overflows, and "grows", the other text boxes in the same row stay the same size as before and it looks very very odd (703 twips vs 300). I would really just love for it to work as if it were a table in word/excel and the entire row would grow at once (all =703 twips), but seeing as how it isn't literally a "row" I just want a way to associate the height of these text boxes with each other.
Is anything like this possible? If I need to clarify anything just let me know, I hope I've given ample information.
In the design view of your report select all the textbox controls in the detail section and all the labels in the page header section. Right click on one of the textbox controls and select Layout -> Tabular. The controls and labels should now align with each other.
You've not set which version of Access you're using but this works in Access 2007.
Ok here we go. So I had a fake table, I needed it to have table borders around each text box and when one text box got taller than the others in the row, the borders would look totally wrong. So, what we have to do is literally draw on the report at runtime, which can be done in any view including print preview. This code must be placed in the Print event
'step one. find out which box in the row has the greatest height value.
'You can come across this information however you want.
'It will likely depend on what data goes in the boxes.
'For the sake of the answer length we will skip that actual code
'step two. Take measurements and store them in variables.
'You will need a start point, and an end point in standard (x1,y1),(x2,y2) form.
Dim t As Integer 'top
Dim l As Integer 'left
Dim b As Integer 'bottom
'step three. Use these measurements and draw your lines.
'Try to use looping if your naming and report layout work will allow it.
Me.Line (l, t)-(l, b), RGB(0, 0, 0)
' (x1,y1)(x2,y2),pick a color
'We just drew a line straight down the length of the control
'If you plan ahead, and place a line on the report permanently on top of the first row
'and below every row, you will only need to draw vertical lines.
'The lines below each row will be pushed down by the tallest control
I hope this helps. I had no idea this stuff existed before at all. Here is the MSDN info about it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa221362%28v=office.11%29.aspx
OK...
1 - Go into Design view of your report
2 - Select ALL the textbox controls in the detail section that you want to be table like and ALL grow if any one grows.
3 - Right click on one of the selected textbox controls and select Layout -> Tabular.... but... now... after you have your textbox row controls as a tabular layout... You must do one thing more...
4 - Inside your reports FORMAT TAB properties... Set ALL PADDING properties to 0.00... 0.00 for Top Padding, 0.00 Right Padding, 0.00 Left Padding and 0.00 Bottom Padding. (default is usually around 0.0208)
5 - Please note that changing your textboxes to a Tabular Layout kinda throws your textboxes to the right (at least for me) so you may need to re-adjust them so they are aligned with your Page Header textboxes again (if you have any that you might be using to header name your table like columns).
6 - Make sure ALL SPACE is removed in the detail area by having the bottom bar (page or report footer) snugly up against the bottom of your Tabular Textbox Layout and also ditto with the upper detail bar (page or report header).
7 - Now when you look your report in print preview with max 200% or more zoom you WILL still see very very minor spaces between your cells in your layout but when you actually print they will be almost unnoticeable unless you take out a magnifying lens.
I found a solution for my situation but I would like to have a better one...
In my case, a TextBox at the left side is describing the content of 1 to 3 pictures on the right side. The TextBox, if enlarging more than the height of the first picture, would shift pictures 2 and 3 down, in spite of a properly designed Top-Attribute in the picture controls.
My solution: I put the height attribute of the text box to 15cm (e.g 2 Inch) and enable it as shrinkable.
However, strange, but this helps for positioning the Pictures at its desired Top-Locations... :-) as well as minimizing the horizontal space used.
How do I get rid of the page breaks in an SSRS report, making the report display in a single page?
Open the report's .rdl file in a text editor and locate the <Page></Page> section.
In that section, insert the following:
<InteractiveHeight>0in</InteractiveHeight>
<InteractiveWidth>8.5in</InteractiveWidth>
In SSRS, an interactive height of 0 means the report has an infinite length and therefore, it will exist on a single page.
Make sure you do not have one of the properties set to true on one of your report items for PageBreakAtEnd or PageBreakAtStart. Also, make sure you keep the width of your report less than the width of your actual paper, keeping in mind extra space for the page margins (Report > Report Properties > Layout)
And according to Microsoft:
"Although it is not recommended, you can disable soft page breaks by setting InteractiveHeight to 0." I think this only works for HTML rendering though, I have not used it myself.
I'm not sure if there is a scale of any kind where no matter how big your report is it still prints on one page if that is what you are looking for.
Right Click anywhere in Body and select Properties.
select Reports From the DropDown. (When you select an element in report, the dropdown changes to TextBox/Header or the item you select)
In Report properties, Expand InteractiveSize Attribute.
Set Height -> 0in
If you're trying to display report data in one page, it is simple to do in SSRS. All you have to do is select an entire table and then go to the property pane. Update KeepTogather = True.
You can set the report's InteractiveHeight to 0 to disable paging.
Go to report properties -> Page -> InteractiveSize -> Height. Set this value to 0in.
Here is the similar question.
Dustin Brooks wrote:
Also, make sure you keep the width of your report less than the width of your actual paper, keeping in mind extra space for the page margins (Report > Report Properties > Layout)
Also be extra careful about this when working with subreports. I've lost count of the times I ended up with extra blank pages when I've accidently made a subreport wider than the main report.
When creating reports for the web, I would disable page breaks by setting the InteractiveSize to something really crazy, like 1000x1000". (I just checked, and setting it to 0x0" as Dustin Brooks mentioned in his answer has the same effect.)
I left the PageSize property at 8.5x11" and the reports printed across multiple pages normally.