SSRS 2005 - Sorting with page groups in SSRS 2005 - reporting-services

One of our SSRS 2005 reports would time out when executed at the "All" level (was returning upwards of 80K records), so I added a group to the table whose sole purpose was to force a page break after every 500 records. I found the grouping in another post. It looks like this:
=IIF(Fields!ShowPageBreaks.Value = 1, Floor((RowNumber(Nothing) - 1) / 500), Nothing)
The problem is that the user sort no longer works correctly. E.g., "A"s show up at the top of multiple pages. I haven't been able to find any pattern in how SSRS decides to perform the sort. I've tried playing around with the Sort Scope and the Sort Target, like setting one to the Table and one the other to the Group, both to the Table, one or the other to nothing, etc and nothing seems to work.
Has anyone found a solution to a problem like this?

The sorting is happening within each group, aka, "working as intended." You're creating a somewhat arbitrary and random set of record groups based on row position in an un-ordered set.
You need to find a way to sort properly (in the SQL?) prior to applying any sort of grouping, or use a less random means of paging.

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Pagebreaks in column 'groups' for SSRS matrix

I'm working on an SSRS matrix that draws information from an SQL database. Right now, the report works just fine on a small scale, but depending on parameters a report could return thousands of columns. I'd like to set up the matrix to split data into pages, with a maximum of 100 columns per page, both for ease of reading and performance.
I know how to do this with row groups in SSRS (=ceiling(rownumber(nothing)/100), but I can not find an equivalent for columns. Is there a way to do this?
There is no direct equivalent to create page breaks on columns. However, there are some ways you could work around this. If you're concerned about printing, you could adjust the page size both in the report and in whichever program you export to. Besides that, I'm not sure why you would want to break it up in the first place.
Another option would be to create a calculated field similar to the row number that segments the data into groups of 100 columns in the SQL and then use a row page break on that. So you would have the first 100 columns on one page and the next 100 on the next page and so on. However, if a row has attributes in many of those columns, the output may be difficult to interpret as the data for each row is broken out onto multiple pages.

SSRS Interactive Sorting child group from parent

Here's the issue.
I have the following report, which consists of a table (not matrix) that has 3 different levels of grouping
Report Design
I'm quite familiar with a basic function of interactive sorting, but what i need to do here is as follows:
Having in mind the pic previously shown, I need to add a Interactive sorting to the column "Porcentaje %" (percentage) in each one of the repetitions of LV1 entries, the issue is that I need that the sorting works on the LV3 group WITHOU affecting the sorting of LV2 group.
I have made the basic configurations on the Textbox Properties dialog, in the Interactive Sorting section, and the report do not crash, but also doesnt sort the information.
any ideas on how to do this?
Also, the headers are part of a ColumnGroup that repeats on each month i'm filtering on the report. Said group has the property Hidden set as true, and is toggled by a "Totals" columns outside the group.

Report builder 3.0 Using Reportitems!TexboxXX.Value sometimes creates multiple boxes. Why?

I have 6 Datasets each one is the same query but has a different WHERE clause based on employee type. They generate 6 tables. At the top of the report there is a summary table which uses reportitems!textboxXX.value to grab the totals for 2 particular fields from all the tables. I'm also using a StartDate and EndDate parameter. Each reportitems! expression in the table comes from a different dataset in the report if that is relevant.
When I run the report using dates from yesterday back to the 9th of May I get the desired output.
But when I go to the 8th I get multiple rows all the same.
and as I go even further back I get even more rows of the same information. To my knowledge nothing interesting or different happened on the 8th of May and the tables further down the report look exactly the same. Any idea what might be causing this? The design view looks like this if that helps. There's no grouping or filters on the table.
Still not certain about the mechanics behind this but I found a 'solution' so I figured I'd post it. I just made a new dataset for my summary tables where the query was simply SELECT 1. Now I get a single row every time.

SSRS Report matching parent/child data incorrectly

I am having an odd issue with SSRS. I built a report that works correctly when filtered down to a single part number in the underlying data set query. When I take that filter off so that all data is displayed on the report, it does not work correctly. In the latter instance, all of the child details display incorrectly (and randomly) under a single part number.
First case, when filtered to a single part number... all looks good and report works correctly:
Second case, after taking filter off so that all data comes through... All of the part numbers show no detail, except randomly one part number will show all of the detail:
I have been unable to figure out what is causing this confusing behavior... Any tips?
Thanks!!!

Matrix report - Page breaks for each column group

I'm using VS2005 to create my reports.
I have a matrix report that works beatifully. I have country going down on the left hand side (row group called "matrix1_country_name") and data going across for 2 column groups, product_node and month (column groups "matrix1_Node" and "matrix1_calendar_month_name" respectively)
The only thing I want to improve is that this report will always show 5 year/60 months of data, and with multiple nodes I'd rather have each node be on its own page (Ideally I'd love to have it on the same page but in the rows just below to first node, but I'm not sure that's even possible).
I've seen numerous responses on these boards about putting in page breaks on column groups, but I can't seem to find how to do that in VS2005. The examples I've read that can do that seem to have a different interface so I'm guessing they aren't in VS2005.
Does VS2005 allow you to add page breaks after each group item and I'm just missing it? Or is there a trick I can do to get that to happen? I've also read about nestin matrix reports in list reports but that seems more complicated than doing the page break on the column group, so I'd rather do the easiest solution if I can.
Ah, I see pagebreaks are ignored on column_groups. Well I guess I'll try one of these workarounds.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlreportingservices/thread/ea9d795b-8d17-41d2-a1d7-a4069ebb4539