Here is essentially what I am trying to have...I would like an empty table (with 5 or so blank rows) always at the bottom of my report. I have a different table in the body of my report, so if that gets too big, I would like it (the body table) to automatically go to the next page so that it doesnt push down my empty table (again, I want it always on the bottom).
Currently I have a picture of the table and placed that into the footer but that is a bare to maintain because of column changes. I was curious if there was an easier way to achieve this?
I'm sure you ran into the issue where you can't have a table/subreport, etc in a footer.
Have you considered a series of adjacent textboxes in the footer to mimic the look of a table? Still a pain to maintain but much easier than an image - at least this way it's all in the same report and you can edit it all in the same place.
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I've not come across anything like I am looking for so either I'm either not asking the right questions (for which I will apologize for re-asking a question) or it's not been asked.
I'm working on a report to print header information onto pre-printed carbon copy forms on a continuous form feed impact printer. The form is two pages and the header for the second page only contains part of the information that the header on the first page has.
I have the first page header working fine. I played with using rectangles and it was printing on target on every other page. The problem comes in when I try to print the page two header.
The way I am formatting the headers is that I have a single cell tablix with a rectangle in the cell. I've measured out where the 11 fields belong for page one of the form and placed them on the form. This all works correctly. Below that, I've inserted a second rectangle with the add page break before property checked. In that rectangle I have two of the fields that are repeated one just above the other (field 1 and field 2). Field 1 is in exactly the same spot as it is on page one. Field 2 is higher and to the left of where it is positioned on page one. The report body has no margins. Positioning is all done directly through the elements themselves. Field 1 sits about 1/16 to 1/8 inch lower than it does on page 1 even when position top is set to 0 (and there is no page margin). I can position field 2 exactly where I want it to be however. If I have multiple forms print out, all the page ones are perfect and page 2 field 2 is spot on but page 2 field 1 is always too low.
I tried separating the rectangles but was unable to connect the dataset to the second rectangle.
Is there a better way to do this? Is there a setting I'm missing that is adding padding to the second rectangle? Any help is appreciated.
Not quite the answer that I was looking for but it nearly fixed the problem. It turns out that the field itself had padding on it. I'm not sure how as I copied and pasted it from the first page but it moved it up to a acceptable position. It is still a bit low but close enough that the requester is happy with it.
I have a table, this table gets data from a server, and has a few fields,
The data from the server is plain text, but no limit on how many characters.
The table should not be over 900px wide.
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As you can see in my plunker some texts gets very long, so they take several rows, while some fit on the first row.
In my opinion, this is not readable at all, it's horrific.
And here's the real problem, since this should be printed some time, all text must be visible.
I have tried fooling around with some fixed tables and overflow: hidden properties, though this does make the table more attractive, a lot of text would be litterly unreadable
Basically what I am asking is if there are any tried methods for displaying (maybe) a lof of texts in tables, and have it readable?
Edit: Okey, as it seems this is the way to do it, there can be some stylig done, but nothing major. There's is one thing that bothers me though, and that's that the title field (field1) is pushed to the left so much.
I know I can set width, but that requires the table to be fixed, and that will cause problems, I need the table to be as dynamic as possible.
Is it possible to set priortiy on which cells the table will break words on first? So that maybe field 1 and 5 have a low priority, so those cells will be less likely to have line breaks?
The ideal solution, and the solution I have used in most of the projects i've done is to add a modal.
For example, if you have a pragraph of texts, the best thing to do it to display a few words and then add a View more button which will open up a modal which will display the entire paragraph.
You can also try to add a View button in the end of each row in another column. Clicking this would open a modal which shows all the data in that row entirely.
This way you can show some information in the table without making it ugly and also provide all the details in the table itself(although its not present in the table view).
It looks fine to me as well, although you may try alternating row colors... add the following rule to your css... you can of course change the color to whatever you like. I find it improves readability:
tbody tr:nth-child(odd) {
background: #eee;
}
I work with ssrs with a dynamic row data in matrix/tablix. There is possibility when I have more than one page (say it two pages) where the data just fill half of the second page and leave a blank space below (half page blank space on the second page). How is the way to fill this blank space with empty rows? (whether rendering empty rows in the tablix, or inserting background image, or anything. I don't have any solution yet as it is dynamic data with many possibilities of the blank space size on the page)
Unfortunately there aren't any settings in the reporter that support this behavior. There are however several workarounds you could use to get the wanted result.
[1]
You could determine the amount of rows that fit on the first page and on the second page, just in case you have items above the
table on the first page. Before you send the datasource to the
reporter count the total rows and check if it exceeds the first page.
Then calculate the number of rows missing to fill an entire second
page (or third/fourth... if you ever get more data). Finally you add
empty rows/objects at the end of your datasource, which will of cource
cause the pages to be filled to the end.
As was pointed out before, this solution is only possible when working
with fixed row heights. If certain columns can have multi-line cells
then these could be checked as well and taken in account when
calculating the number of rows being displayed on the page. This makes
it slightly more complicated but is still a valid solution if you can
predict which columns might be troublesome.
[2]
A second solution would be to hide the table borders and place the table inside a rectangle that spans the maximum size of the
page. The borders of this rectangle can be used to display the table
outer borders and columns can be displayed by adding lines inside the
rectangle. This will cause the columns to fill the last page of the
report automatically. Unfortunately this isn't a solution to display
horizontal grid lines.
[3]
A third approach is adding an extra table directly below your table
with the same size of columns. Using the same method as from the first
solution you could fill the second table to represent the empty rows.
You'll probably have the same issue as with the first solution when
dealing with multi-line rows though.
I believe solution [1] and [3] will offer the most exact solution, if you're willing to do the math. If you don't want any horizontal lines then I suggest using approach [2].
Using an image to overlay the borders is of course another option but then you'll have the same issues when dealing with the multi-line rows. If you plan on working with fixed row heights, where you leave space for multi-line cells then this is becomes a valid approach but so does solutions [1] and [3].
Update:
If you only need the filled pages for printing you could make sure you add enough empty rows to fill at least the entire last page, these may go to a new page (1 new page, not 2... you can use a simple calculated guess for this) and exclude the last page when printing.
I come to you with a question on how I can create a simple flow chart like in the pictures below in SSRS. I have a query that returns rows with events, and a date column that I can use to organize these events in chronological order.
I have it all basically set up but I am running into a design problem. I have a tablix with two columns in a group for the box+arrow combination, with column visibility set up to hide the arrow if it reaches the last event. What I would like to happen is for the boxes to reach the end of the page (the rightmost side of the page, and then come down a short distance below that row of boxes and continue on the same page (Ex. B). What it's doing is reaching the end of the side of the page, and breaking to the next page, effectively creating a bunch of pages with only one row of boxes on each page. (Ex. A)
Ex. A: What it does:
Ex. B: What I want it to do (accidentally forgot to include the arrow on the middle rightmost box in the picture, the second and third rows are just continuations of the first obviously):
I would almost call it row wrapping but it's not exactly the same. To bring the problem away from my specific flow chart design, I want to make tablix columns wrap down directly below the table (not the content inside the columns, the actual columns themselves).
I've done some reading on column groupings and interactive page size. I don't really understand the column grouping manipulation, especially when trying to apply it to my situation, and the interactive page size doesn't seem to be what I am looking for either. Any help on this would be really appreciated!
I suggest you use a multi-column layout, e.g.
http://nederveld.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/how-to-do-a-column-layout-in-sql-reporting-services/
Each of your Box + Arrow pairs would go into each cell.
I'm a bit confused about your arrow requirement, you might need to use an expression based on RowNumber to hide the arrow in the last column.
I've got a bit of a challenge with an HTML table that we need to have raised columns. If you look at the attached image you'll see what I mean.
The purpose of these raised columns is to draw the user's attention to them.
The problem is:
To get the effect of the column raising above the other columns you
need some kind of element/height/margin to appear outside the
boundary of the table, which doesn't seem to work
Same goes for the bottom
To have the drop shadow appear correctly, it needs to be applied to all the cells in a column.
We did get this to work by splitting it up into multiple tables then applying the styles to the table that should be the raised column. The image I've attached is actually a live table working like this.
But, you loose all other needed features of tables...
Row heights don't match if the text wraps in table 1 but not in
table 2.
To deal with the row height issue we applied a fixed height to each table's rows, but then you have to force text to not wrap. If you then get text that's longer than the width you run into trouble.
Does anyone know how this can be achieved without splitting the tables?
Thanks,
jacques
Try having an extra row for the table above the header row (you may have to stop using any th tags) to give you the overbar at the top. Similarly for the bottom, an extra highlighting row.
Although you have to compromise the table a little to do that, it is better in my book than separating into 2 tables, as that defeats all the purposes of the table tag; to show a table, and have that table easily declared.
The effects inside the table are probably best done with jquery, unless the choice of highlighted columns is entirely static, in which case consider rendering a static html version by generating the html appropriately.