I have a stacked column chart in SSRS that displays data by hour. Included in this data is the meters reading, kVa, Average Temperature and Heat Index for that hour. For some reason, the legend items for the temperature values and the kVa are being repeated for each meter in the dataset. I would like for my legend to have the following values: kVa, Average, Heat Index and each meter number. I included a sample of the chart, the chart data configuration as well as some sample data below. Any idea how I can accomplish this? Please let me know if any other information is required.
Here is a good solution which covers all possible scenarios
go to "Report Properties" (right click in the blank area)
go to variables and add a new variable called myflag, set the value to "true" and deselect Read-Only
go to the "Series Properties" and then to "Legend" and click the expression button next to "Do not show this series in legend"
Type or paste this code:
=IIF( Variables!myflag.Value = true, false, true )
=Variables!myflag.SetValue( false )
and that's it.
hint
You can use the same variable in the same series' visibility expression without the setting part in the second line to avoid overlapping the drawing of the same series on the chart
I couldn't get either of these answers to work for me. Ended up using RowNumber and CountRows in the expression for Do not show this series in a legend property.
=IIF(RowNumber("Dataset")=CountRows(),false,true)
You're getting one set of legend values per series you've added. For each series besides the one whose legend you want to keep visible, right click the series (each top-level row in the "Values" box), choose Series Properties, go to the Legend tab, and check "Do not show this series in a Legend."
I was able to fix my issue using information from this question on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1867343/965213
Go to the Legend page of the series properties you want to include in the chart.
Edit the function for the "Do not show this series in a legend" property.
Use this formula: =IIF(Fields!SerialNumber.Value=Last(Fields!SerialNumber.Value,"MeterDetail"),false,true)
Now the series will only be repeated once instead of once per series group.
Hope this helps!
Related
Is it possible to inspect the visibility (Collapsed/Expanded) of a textbox in SSRS and use this in an expression?
For example :
=iif(Fields!column1 Is Visible,"Use this label","Use this other label")
What I want to accomplish to have the initial value of a column header display some text, when user clicks a particular value the details row are displayed (this is a Tablix), and then the header would change to something else (E.g. initial report state is to hide detail rows and only show Tablix member totals so column displays "... total", when user expands to view details column header changes to "... number".
In MS Access through VBA I could inspect the visible property and create code based on this. Till now haven't found a similar way of doing this in SSRS 2016.
Tried setting expressions for visibility as well as setting expressions for changing value of a textbox.
=IIF(Fields!accountnum.Value IS NOTHING OR Fields!accountnum.Value = TRUE,"Station #", "Station Count")
No error messages. My results should be to change header (textbox) value based on whether detail rows are collapsed (hidden) or expanded (visible).
To answer your first question:
Well of course this is possible, just not they way you want to do it. Here is a smimple example. Lets say your visibilty criteria is the following expression:
'Visibility expression
=IIF(Fields!Category.Value = "Visible", False, True)
Now you dont check on the visibilty with the Is Visible criteria, you just use the same expression again. Like this:
=IIF(
IIF(Fields!Category.Value = "Visible",
Fale,
True) = True,
"This one is not visible",
"This one is visible")
To answer you problem:
They way you want to do it, it is not possible. But you can do this with a workaround.
Add a user defined parameter to your report with two options:
Display details
Hide details
Then add two tablixes to your report. One tablix without the details and one tablix with the details you want to show.
Then go to the first tablix Tablix Properties > Visibility and add the following expression:
=IIF(Parameters!VisibilityParameter.Value = "Display details", True, False)
And the expression for the other tablix visibility:
=IIF(Parameters!VisibilityParameter.Value = "Hide details", True, False)
Now based on the parameter result the talbix with or without the details will be displayed.
You can do this, maybe it won't look too elegant but I'll show you what I did and you can see if it's useful.
Note: Using this method, you can't change the actual column header directly as it's out of scope so this may not meet requirements but you may be able to adapt it. I just thought it was a nice challenge ! :)
First I got some sample data (WideWorldImports sample database) that just gave me a CountryID, CountryName and Continent.
Once you have your data, add a table, drag CountryName into the first column and remove the remaining two columns.
Then right-click the Details row group and do Add Group => Parent Group Choose Continent as the Group By field and check the Add Group Header option.
The table design should look like this, nice and simple.
Next we will set the toggle on the detail rows. Right-Click the "Details" row group and chose "Group Properties". On visibility, click 'Hide' and check the "Display Can be toggled by the report item" to Continent.
We should now have a report that expands and collapses as expected.
Next vertically expand the 'blank cell' just above the countryname as we'll need a bit of room to work with. Make it about 4 times the normal height, we'll change it back later so the size is not important.
In the blank cell, right-click and do Insert => Rectangle.
In this rectangle, right-click and do Insert => TextBox. Double click the text box and type your "collapsed state" column header caption. In my example I just used "Collapsed Header".
Repeat and add another textbox (It must be within the rectangle again). Set this text box to your "expanded state" caption. In this example I just used "Expanded Header".
Next, right click the "Collapsed header" textbox, then properties then set the visibility to Show and the toggle item to Continent.
Repeat for your "Expanded Header" but this time set visibilty to Hide, like this..
Finally, position both text boxes at location 0,0 so they overlap and shrink the cell back down to it's original size.
The final design will look something like this...
When we first run the report we see this.
If we expand a node, we get this.
I do not think this is possible in SSRS. You could change column header text depending on your condition, For Ex: IF (A) then Header A else Header B. But you wish to change Column Header based on some clicks (expand / collapse) on report and this is not possible. I mean we need some data to set condition not clicks.
But maybe someone with more Experience on SSRS would throw some more insight.
This is what InScope() is for. See here for more information
Why is it that a control that appears in the property list in a BIDS project is not represented in the corresponding .rdl file?
Let me step back a bit; I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to add items to an existing report, either via the XML (.rdl viewed as code) or on the design surface. I can click on a rectangle on the design surface and see a column row above it:
And if I click on the "pipe"-separated segements on that column heading row, I see "MatrixColumn4", "MatrixColumn3", "MatrixColumn2", and "MatrixColumn1" in the designer; for example, here's MatrixColumn3:
However, only one of these columns appears at a time in the Property list - if I select MatrixColumn3 on the design surface, MatrixColumn1, MatrixColumn2, and MatrixColumn4 are not there. The same holds true for selecting any of the others - it turns up temporarily in the Properties list but "hides" all the others:
Stranger yet, when I search the .rdl file (viewed as XML) for "MatrixColumn1" (or "2" or "3" or "4") they do not exist there. In fact, the only reference to "MatrixColumn" in the entire file is this:
<Matrix Name="matrix1">
<MatrixColumns>
<MatrixColumn>
<Width>1.67609in</Width>
</MatrixColumn>
</MatrixColumns>
. . .
This seems exceedingly bizarre - shouldn't there be four sets of <MatrixColumn></MatrixColumn> there?
I want to add another column heading, with a Textbox-as-label and a Textbox below that to display dynamic content, but how can I do it without adding another column heading?, or at least making room for this new column?
I can increase the width of the matrix ("matrix1") by dragging it or by increasing its Size.Width value, but its existing contents expand with it, giving me no room to add TextBoxes inside of it.
Maybe I'm approaching SSRS from a completely wrong mental angle, as I don't see much of a connection between what the report generates and what I see on the design surface and in the XML.
To add another column to a matrix right click the column header and Select Insert column. Then choose either inside group (left or right), or outside group (left or right).
A column created inside the group will repeat for every item in the column group
A column created outside the group will only appear the once to the left or right of the grouped columns.
Are you sure you are referring to a matrix (dynamic columns and rows) and not a tablix (dynamic number of rows only)?
The process for tablixes is the same as for matrixes as described above, just without the inside/outside group option.
Either method described above will include a new column with a single text box to label the column with, and another text box underneath to put the detail in.
You can also do this process by dragging a field from your dataset in the Report Data panel to the appropriate location in your existing table.
Please let me know if this helps, or if I've misunderstood your question and you require a different solution.
I have SSRS reports which has a column chart.
The column chart has 2 value: Actual and Target.
The actual value is displayed as column chart with data labels displayed
and target value as Range column (my data has different targets for different values and would like to display target line for each bar)
The problem which I am running into is that sometimes this target line gets displayed over the data labels and its hard to read the data value.
Is there any way to set these labels to display over the target line when this happens?
This is what is happening right now:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx_Po7ND9VtOcW8xN3JSNlk5NjQ/view?usp=sharing
Options I tried till now:
1) setting the target values as first series and actual as second series: In this case I don't get to see the target lines as bars gets painted over the target lines.
You can set your Range Series' Fill color to use Transparency to allow the elements behind the line to be seen.
On another note, in the future you may want to do this with a StripLine on the axis rather than creating a new series.
http://blogs.adatis.co.uk/blogs/jeoc/archive/2013/07/23/adding-strip-lines-to-reports.aspx
http://blog.jontav.com/post/7067899413/axis-striplines-in-ssrs-charts
I have a Pie Chart in SSRS which has 4 Sectors with some number on them,i was planning to display percentages rather than displaying numbers.I tried Clicking on the Series Label properties and set the Label Data as #Percent.but percentage is displaying for only one sector and numbers to other sectors.
How can i display percentages for all the sectors?
By default, the Series Label will return the Value for the Series. You can set it to format as a Percentage, but if the Value is 1, it is going to display 100%. To get the percentage Value over the Total Value, you'll need to modify the Label Data formula under the Series Label Properties.
Right Click the Series Label on your Chart.
Select Series Label Properties.
Enter this formula into the Label Data box, replacing your actual field and dataset names:
=sum(Fields.YourValue.Value)/sum(Fields.YourValue.Value,"YourDataSet")
Make sure you have selected "Percentage" under the Number Category on the Series Label Properties.
Let me know if you need more detail.
You need to set the UseValueAsLabel property of EACH DATA SERIES to false, and set the Label property to #PERCENT for EACH DATA SERIES. The problem arises when using Visual Studio to edit the report, if you right click and choose "Show Data Labels" it only sets the first data series. You need to right click on the chart and bring up the box with all the data series listed, and then click on each one and choose "Show Data Labels", and then change the properties in the property panel for that data series.
SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services, Visual Studio 2010.
It should be: right click on the chart, select "Show data labels".
Then right click on the label, Series label properties, select "#PERCENT" on the Label data drop down.
I believe that placing legend at the end of line series is user friendlier rather than placing legend in the table. I do not think SSRS is able to do that...
I could put the series names manually; however, I wish them to be dynamic.
Please advise if you know how to put legend next to the series line as in example below:
Click on the values for the chart data
In the properties toolbar go to Labels - Label -Label
Put the text you want for the label
Click the drop down on visible (it is several fields below label)
Click expression
Put in the logic to only show it if it is the rightmost part on the x axis. For example, if the X axis is a date field make it only show for the max date.
=IIF(Fields!CreatedOn.Value = MAX(Fields!CreatedOn.Value, "DataSet1"), TRUE, FALSE)
Here is what I end up with: