In an SSRS 2008 r2, I am going to have some selected colunmns set as invisibile while the ssrs 2008 r2 report is running. However when the report is exported only to excel and csv files, I want those invisible columns to be included in the export. Thus can you tell me and or show me in code how to add the selected invisible columns to only the CSV and excel exports?
If you right click on the column and select 'Column Visibility...' and select 'Show or hide based on an expression' and enter the following code:
=IIF(Globals!RenderFormat.Name = "EXCEL" or Globals!RenderFormat.Name = "CSV",false,true)
This should only display the column when it is exported to Excel or as a CSV.
Also make sure you have the DataElementOutput property set to 'Auto' as if it is set to 'NoOutput' it will not export to .CSV
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In an SSRS 2008 R2 report, the users are going to export the data to: csv (comma delimited) and excel.
I am using the following to display if a column is visible or not:
=IIF(Mid(Globals!RenderFormat.Name,1,5)="EXCEL" AND First(Len(Fields!CustomerNumber.Value)) > 0,False,true)
I have set the DataElementOutput=Output for the textbox that displays the value.
I have left DataElementOutput=Auto for the textbox that contains the column header.
When exporting to csv (comma delimited) or excel, I basically want the column to be visible when there is data in the field and the column not to be visible when there is no data.
The code works for excel but the code does not work for comma delimited.
Thus, can you tell me what I can do so the column is not disaplyed when the data is exported to csv (comma delimited)?
You may attempt to do this with a continuation of statement accounting for the "CSV" output type.
=IIF( (Mid(Globals!RenderFormat.Name,1,5)="EXCEL" OR Mid(Globals!RenderFormat.Name,1,5)="CSV") AND First(Len(Fields!CustomerNumber.Value)) > 0,False,true)
Or a switch statement:
=Switch(Mid(Globals!RenderFormat.Name,1,5)="EXCEL" AND First(Len(Fields!CustomerNumber.Value)) > 0,False, Mid(Globals!RenderFormat.Name,1,5)="CSV" AND First(Len(Fields!CustomerNumber.Value)) > 0,False,true)
However....
The problem may be due to the nature of a csv file being a simpler format that cannot handle this in output. It depends on how SSRS handles the output if it is hard writing the output before the write operation. It may simply not work because of the limitations of the format of CSV. If this was the case you may be able to simple take the Excel output and save it to CSV either in code or a manual operation.
In an SSRS 2008 R2 existing report, I want to change the report so the users have the option to hide headers when they export the report to excel. By allowing the users to hide headers when they export the SSRS 2008 report to excel, they can sort and filter the data. This avoids allowing excel to display an error in a popup window saying there are merged cell.
My question is when I hide the headers and export the report to excel, there is a blank line in excel before the data and column headers appear.
Basically row # 1 in cell in blank and data and column headers show up starting in column #2.
Thus can you tell me how to remove the blank row in row #1 when the data is exported to excel?
I believe I have been able to duplicate your issue. Be sure that there is no space between your table and the report header. I find that setting the location property of the tablix to 0,0 is the best way to ensure that there is no space there. By removing the space, you should get your tablix headers as the first row in excel.
Here's an article I wrote giving screen shots and step-by-step instructions.
http://jaysonseaverbi.blogspot.com/2013/11/ssrs-exporting-options-for-excel.html
Use render format in an expression , to toggle the visiblity of the text box so the header appears empty
=iif(Globals!RenderFormat.Name = "EXCEL" , true, false
Note the EXCEL should be in caps for Excel 2003 (xls) and EXCELOPENXML for Excel 2007-2010 (xlsx) if using SQl 2012
There could be another reason for the blank first row:
The existence of a page header in the report.
Solution: right-click on the grey area under the report and choose "Remove Page Header"
When exporting to Excel, the first row shows the headers (if existing)
Changing the tablix location to 0cm, 0cm , will fix the problem.
I have ssrs report. When I export that report to csv , and when I open that csv file in ms-excel, some data is coming in column A and some data is coming in column B .Can you help me in getting whole data to column A only ? In report, DataElementOutput property of each textbox is also set to 'Auto'.
Without more to go on it seems you have two columns and they are displayed as such. If you just want a single column consider doing an expression like this in SSRS:(click the cell and choose 'Expression' in 2008 and higher)
=Fields!(FieldName).Value & " " & Fields!(FieldName2).Value
This would put two fields in one column but seperate them with a (space).
I have two Tablix controls on my SSRS report. I want one of them to export and one not to export. I have accomplished this by setting the hidden property on the one I want to export to:
"=Globals!RenderFormat.IsInteractive = True"
and the one I do not want to export to:
"=Globals!RenderFormat.IsInteractive = False"
This works perfectly when I export to Excel, however CSV simply ignores these values and exports both Tablix controls. I need to know how I can force CSV to only export one Tablix control.
Format options such as expressions on visibility are ignored for CSV rendering methods. CSV rendering methods are essentially data flows, so you can suppress elements that you don't want to include in CSV files by changing the DataElementOutput from Auto, the default value, to NoOutput.
You can't conditionally set the DataElementOutput, but you can conditionally set the tablix filters. That will leave the header row in the csv output, but trims the data rows.
Try setting the visibility.hidden property of the tablix you don't want to export to CSV to:
=(Globals!RenderFormat.Name = "CSV")
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robertbruckner/archive/2010/05/02/globals-renderformat-aka-renderer-dependent-report-layout.aspx
I have a reporting services 2008 r2 report that I output to csv format, but the problem is that the headers for the columns are displaying like 'FirstName' when I want it to display like 'First Name' Is there a way to change that?
The csv output uses the control name for the output textbox. If you change the control name this will update. (I'm not sure that you can use spaces in control names though).