ssrs display multiple documents - reporting-services

We have several RDL's that that are designed using textbox's to display data as a document to be converted to PDF or printed directly. There is no table involved in the RDL's. I am trying to get one of the RDL's to display multiple documents by passing a dataset of multiple DocumentId but it only appears to display the first document. I figure there must be a setting to force a page break on the actual dataset or page itself but I have not found one yet. Does anyone know of such a feature of SSRS 2008?

I would recommend putting the textbox in lists and have the list group on Documentid. This should fix your issue. If you want it to be shown on a separate page you should be able to select page break between groups.

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Is it possible to create a telephone directory/provider directory kind of pdf report using SSRS?

I don't see repeater kind of insert-able object where I can create directory kind of report in SSRS. Any input on how to achieve this kind of reporting in SSRS?
Similar to a telephone directory like shown in figure
I've taken this sample data from the Adventure works sample database customer table.
I simply added a table and aded placeholders in the first cell for each of the customer elements I wants to display and formatted them as required.
Then in the report properties, I set the columns to 3.
The design looks like this...
Note that multi column layouts only work with certain renderers such as PDF so if I view it on screen I get this
If I export the report to a PDF I get this.
There are ways to get round doing it on screen to but that's more complicated. Let me know if you need to do this on screen too.

SSRS Tablix Group Reset Page Number and Page Name not working when Exported to Word

I have a SSRS (.rdl) report with a tablix whose details group is set to put a page break between group items, reset the page number and set the page name (as per http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robertbruckner/archive/2010/04/25/report-design-reset-page-number-on-group.aspx).
This works correctly when rendered to HTML or as a PDF.
When rendered to Word the page numbers do not reset and the page name never changes (the page name is always the value set on the first page). The page breaks work as expected.
I have read (at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd283105.aspx#ReportHeadersFooters) that complex expressions must be converted into runs of simple expressions in order to display correctly when exporting to Word. I have done this but the problem persists.
Is there any way to make the tablix group reset page number and page name functionality work when exporting to Word?
If not is there a way of achieving the same effect when exporting a report to Word from SSRS?
This is an older question but recently ran into this issue myself so it might help someone else.
There are a lot of examples out there that use casting in the examples for the page number display (CStr or ToString()). Whenever I invoked those methods, the counts would be off when exporting to Word (either doc or docx).
The only way I could get it to work is with three separate text boxes in the footer with these expressions:
=Globals!PageNumber
"of"
=Globals!TotalPages
Avoid the use of those other approaches. Three separate text boxes was the only way I could get this to work.

Split pages in SSRS with parameters and different datasets

I would like to know how to organize my report to be able to display few charts coming from different datasets depending on a specific field for the page.
So I would like to have 5 pages containing each 3 charts from different datasets based on the same parameter.
It is something like the wizzard generates but I am not able to add a chart coming from other datasets and if I create another area with the parameter as header, it is splitted in 5*3 pages.
Any suggestion is welcome, thanks in advance.
Try inserting 5 Rectangle items into your report and add a page break after each one. You can then insert Charts into the Rectangle items, making sure they are sized appropriately. Also make sure the SSRS parameter points to the parameter used in the charts' Datasets.

Creating a Directory Listing type Report in SSRS

I was wondering if there was a way to create a directory listing report in ssrs and if so, how would i go about creating it.
I'm mostly familiar with creating tabular and some somewhat complex reports, but nothing like this; so any help would be extremely useful.
Here's a sample of how the report might look.
Thanks!
Addendum: The content on each page needs to be grouped by Department & Sub-Department.
I made a mistake on the sample report; where it says Department Subtitle it should say sub-department.
Here's one way I've seen it done.
For a 3 column look, create 3 tables/list with the same dataset and set visibility for details group to:
=IIF(ROWNUMBER("YourDataSet") mod 3=1,FALSE,TRUE) <--Table1
=IIF(ROWNUMBER("YourDataSet") mod 3=2,FALSE,TRUE) <--Table2
=IIF(ROWNUMBER("YourDataSet") mod 3=0,FALSE,TRUE) <--Table3
I think your problem is an addition to this question here.
I did a simple test that imitates your situation. Here is how to do it:
Set the report to 3 columns via Report properties. Adjusted the width of each column so that they fit in 1 page of paper.
Add a List control to the first column. Put Text Box controls inside with the required data fields. The List control will repeat for each Listing record.
Create groups for Department and Sub-Department via Row Groups pane. Rearrange the groups so that they will appear above the List control.
Right-click on Department group (or Sub-Department group) and add Page Breaks.
Preview (Should get a result pretty close to what you want)

Mimicking Spreadsheet Style in a MS-Access Report

I've been tasked with creating a report in MS-Access that looks exactly like a spreadsheet that a vendor supplies to us for my company to fill in.
The number of records per page is about 40 and there are usually 3-6 pages that need to be prepared. Each month there is a new report sent out and I just got finished writing it all in manually while looking at a report I generated. The purpose of this is to avoid manually transcribing the data.
They are adamant about using their format and will not accept a different report, so I'm trying to be sneaky about it.
Problems
I can duplicate the header of the spreadsheet and the rows just fine, I've just run into a few snags.
Blank rows need to be displayed on the last page of the report instead of nothing being printed (whitespace) and then the page footer.
Whitespace that exists between the Details and the Page Footer is present. The page footer should instead appear to be another row of cells, except that it has the text Page Total and the page total on that row.
The second item happens because the Page Footer always appears at the bottom of the page in a set location as opposed to where the records ended (even if they took up the entire page).
Ideas
If there is someway I could create a
group based on page, then I could
stick that right after the details
section so that it would line up
nicely as opposed to the page total
and still be able to display the page
total.
Inserting blank rows into the rows to
match the number of records, is this
possible? I could calculate how many
extra rows I would need to complete
the page, but how would I insert
those rows into the data source?
Creating a new excel spreadsheet from a template and just writing to there the rows.
I'm using MS-Access 2007 here with a MS-Access 2003 MDB.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
If you need gridlines to print at the end of an Access report, one option is to create a background bitmap that you insert into the report's picture property.
This would be rather fussy, as you could use it only if your headers and footers are identical on all pages, and you'd have to be sure that controls entirely cover the whole detail area so that the background graphic will not show through except on pages where there is blank space. Also, if you altered the width of your detail fields, you'd need to edit the graphic to harmonize with those changes.
Let me just say that I consider the insistance on replicating the look of the spreadsheet to be incredibly boneheaded stupid. What purpose is served by these gridlines except to replicate the visual appearance of a spreadsheet? Are they going to use the grid to write things in? If not, then it's just a really idiotic requirement.
Start by turning a copy of their Excel report into a template file. Remove the data, but keep headers, formating, and formulas as needed (Some data manipulation will be easier in Access.).
This way you can enter and store data in Access. Instead of having users fill-in the spreadsheet in Excel with VBA based on the template file.
You'll run into different issues of how to place the results of a query to a worksheet and filling in formulas in specific fields, etc., but those can be later questions to post.