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.
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Recently I got a problem and wondering if anyone could help.
I have a SSRS report named as 'Processing Quality Report - Source Data'. Normally, when I export it to excel, the excel's tab name should be the same as the report name (Processing Quality Report - Source Data). This time, since the report name is too long for the tab, I want to keep the report name while let the tab show 'Processing Quality_Source Data' (which is short enough for excel to show on tab) as the new tab name.
However, even if I have changed the tablix's Pagename and the report's initialPageName to 'Processing Quality_Source Data', the tab name keeps unchanged on the exported excel, and I don't know why this happens.
Could anyone give me a hint please? Thanks a lot for any help!
I've actually never used the Initial Page Name before but the Tablix Page Name should be working using the property that the pic shows. I usually don't use a function for static text but it should work.
You can try using the tablix Group to name the page. Highlight the table and then click on the main group in the Grouping window at the bottom.
Then, in the Properties window, click on the + for Group to expand and enter the Processing Quality_Source Data for the Page Name.
If it still doesn't work, then check for another table or rectangle that may be embedded in the table or the table is embedded in.
I'm using Visual Studio 2019 with SSDT(SQL Server Data Tools) and "Microsoft Reporting Services Projects" to create a SSRS Report. In this Report I have several Subreports to show detail information.
It can happen that one of the subreports shows no additional data. In this case I still want the structure of the Subreport to be shown, like this (table structure with thinner Bordes is the Subreport):
But when I switch to another page and back to this page of the Report, the structure is gone:
This seems to be the case, when there is no information in the Subreport.
There are no visibility properties set, neither in the Subreport nor in the "parent"-Report, so everything should be visible all the time.
Yes it will happen because your sub report does not return anything and hence the blank.
For Testing just try running one of your sub report only (without main report) with parameter which does not return data and you will see your sub report page is completely empty
Now how to solve this issue:
For your sub report:
I would add static table (without datasets) and add it on top of your tablix.
I will add visibility rule to this static table to show only when your datasets does not return data. so that this static is visible only when original subreport data is not available, else you have your subreport data been shown.
This happend because SSRS think should hide the subreport since all the dataset are empty (or the only one you have) so to avoid that in your subreport just add a new dataset with
'select 1 as one'
that will do the job
Can Excel render only the visible row groups on a report?
I have a report [SSRS 2017] that has nested row groups on the Tablix.
The child groups are hidden by default, toggled by a report field. When you run the report, the default view displays just the summary rows.
Folks naturally try to export this to Excel (to work with just the summary rows) and of course When they export to Excel (collapsed or not) they get the grouped child rows:
Is there any way for SSRS to suppress hidden row groups when exporting to Excel (while still having a working toggle on the web version of the report)?
My fallback is to duplicate the report, remove the child row groups altogether, and just link to the "simplified" version of the report for that purpose.
thanks!
I haven't done this before but I have seen the theory for this once.
You would want to add an extra column and use it as the Toggle Item. Then set the visibility for the new column based on whether it's an EXCEL export.
=IIF(Globals!RenderFormat.Name="EXCEL" or Globals!RenderFormat.Name="EXCELOPENXML", True, False)
I haven't seen it work, so I don't know if will work the way you want.
The solution above does not work if you want to hide detail rows shown by drilling down.
For this case there's another way:
Create a boolean parameter to "suppress details" for example ExcelHide.
Create a copy of the tablix you want to hide the details from.
Set visibility parameter of the ORIGINAL tablix to the value of the parameter. This will HIDE this tablix when the parameter is true.
Set visibility parameter of the COPIED tablix to the negated value (not ExcelHide) of the parameter. This will SHOW this tablix when the parameter is false.
On the COPIED tablix, hide all elements you do not want to export to Excel.
When the report is run you set the parameter so you can show the details for regular operation and hide elements to allow successful export to Excel.
Almost there! I achieved this by setting the DataElementOutput property in my Tablix to "NoOutput", then prefixing the following to any fields in the rows I wished to exclude from my CSV export:
=IIf(Globals!RenderFormat.Name="CSV",Nothing,[YourValue])
Hope this helps folk and thanks [#Hannover Fist].
I have a MS access report that I want to run using a linked excel table (so i cannot make any changes to the table in access).
The report has a text box which takes each row in the table and displays it in the text box and later prints it. I want to add a "*" at the beginning and end of the string and then display it in the text box.
I have done this so far:
- Choose data source (excel linked table) from report view
- In design view, press alt+F8 and drag and drop the column header I want into the report.
When I run the report it shows the report on each page, one page for every row of data which I will print later.
Now in design view after clicking on the text box, I go to property sheet and then the "Data" tab, if I try to change the expression to:
="" & [tablename].[headername] & ""
EDIT: There is an "asterisk" sign between the " " above, i don't know why they don't show.
When I run the report it asks me the parameter for the row number I want and displays the report only for that row. How can I use an expression and still be able to get all rows in the report in different pages?
Thanks!
I did what I didn't want to in order to get the problem solved. I used a query to add an additional column (using an expression) and used the query as my data source. Doesn't look like there is a good way to use the report to directly make changes to the table data and show it in a textbox.
I have a SSRS report with 2 Tablix in it, I used a page break property to export the data into 2 different tabs in excel it’s works fine, After exporting the report into excel I need to see 2 different headers in 2 tabs?
In the header section you can use a placeholder and set the contents dynamically using an expression.
Following expression should get the desired result:
=IIF(Globals!PageNumber=1,"Heading1","Heading2")
Taking into consideration you are using excel export you will most likely have only two pages so the above code should work.