In SSRS report, the HTML rendering is displaying around 20 records. Now when i generate the PDF, only 5 records are displayed per page. I want that both the HTML renderer and PDF renderer should be same. Is there any workaround for the same?
The different renderers are rendering the report appropriately for their output. The web viewer is optimised for screen-based reading and generally allows more content per page than the print renderer does as the print renderer is constrained by the paper size that it formats to. Thus you get more pages when rendering for printing than web; however, the content of the report is exactly the same.
The best illustration of this is the Excel renderer - the Excel renderer renders the entire report onto a single worksheet in most cases (for reports with grouping and page breaks set on the group footer it will render each group on its own worksheet). You wouldn't want the Excel renderer to artificially create worksheets to try to paginate your report. It does the appropriate thing which is to include all the data in one big worksheet even though that may be logically thought of as one big "page".
The web renderer page length is determined by the InteractiveHeight attribute of the report (in the InteractiveSize property in the Properties pane for the report) but the interactive height is an approximation rather than a fixed page break setting and your page breaks may still not conform to the print version even though the InteractiveHeight is set to the same length as your target page length.
See this discussion of rendering behaviour for more information on why what you are trying to achieve isn't achievable.
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I am building a label report that requires the user to input a Bulk Order Number that will generate multiple labels. When viewed in preview mode and on the report server, images on the report for postage and company logo appear on every instance of a label (report page).
However when exported to PDF, these images only render on the first label (page)
I considered this may not be an issue, as the user could print from the report server when accessing the report. This isn't the case, as when trying to print, report server creates a PDF for you to print from. There are no other options regarding printing other than page size and orientation, a PDF seems to be the only method from which you can print from.
The images I use have the visibility controlled by parameters, so you can select 1st or 2nd class postage, and choose to have the logo visible.
Each image also has the RepeatWith property set to the Tablix that contains order and address details.
When exported to word, the labels all appear as desired with postage and/or logo images on each instance. This is a step I would like to avoid, as it would be much nicer to have the user print directly from the report server, even if this still requires a printer friendly PDF to be created.
I have attached am image to show PDF output.
Any ideas how I can get these images to render on each label (page)?
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Image of design page
Based on the design view image you posted, it looks like the only thing repeating is your tablix containing the address information. The SSRS RepeatWith property doesn't seem to work well with .pdf exports so the workaround for this would be to drop everything into a single cell on a list object and grouping using the Order_No to repeat everything. This should remove the need to mess with RepeatWith and give you the desired results.
On my SSRS report I have set the Report Properties to Landscape, paper size to Tabloid and 17 width by 11 height with 0.25 margin. After I deployed the report and ran it on the web. Followed by exporting to Excel and printed it and it did not come out the format I have set on SSRS. Also, the I have bold the report lines by section based on the group and in Excel the bold report lines are not there.Please advise. I am thinking of moving to Crystal report might solve the problem. Any ideas. Thanks.
This isn't quite how page size works in SSRS. When you set the page size attribute, this will really only effect two things in SSRS.
How the report is displayed online. This is set via the Interactive Page Size setting, and really, only the height matters here.
Page Size sets the page size on the PDF export. We have this because PDFs are supposed to be a portable format, commonly used for printing.
Excel doesn't have this attribute as a part of the file. If you want to print to a specified page size/format, that's all handled at the time of printing by the print dialog.
I'm working on SSRS Reports.
Currently I am facing one issue. I have two tablix in a single Report. Now, Tablix1 or Tablix2 will be visible in either condition.
For example: I am passing One Flag as True then Tablix1 should be visible and for this layout would be Landscape and I am passing Flag Value as False then Tablix2 should be visible and for that layout would be Portrait.
For Show/Hide Tablix I am having solution but what about orientation?
How can I achieve this in SSRS Reports? Can anyone please help me or guide me?
Thanks in advance!!
I can only answer this question in regard to 2012, but it is not possible to achieve this with a single report. Please see my caveat below. In SSRS, you have two properties that determine the size of the report and where breaks should occur. InteractiveSize determines the size of the page when viewed in interactive formats (i.e., RDL or MHTML4.0). For all other report formats (e.g., Word, PDF, Excel, CSV), the PageSize determines the size of the page when viewed in those non-interactive formats.
In SSRS 2012 as well as earlier versions, expressions are not accepted in the InteractiveSize or PageSize fields. This means you cannot reference variables or parameters or field values.
Caveat
I took an existing report I had created with a page size of 8.5" (width) by 11" (height) that is normally two or three pages wide. I then created a blank report and added an 11" x 8.5" subreport pointing to my original report. When I exported this to PDF, I got an 11" (wide) by 8.5" (tall) PDF with the spacing and page breaks as you would expect for a landscape document. However, when I exported to Word, Microsoft Word crashed and burned. This may have something to do with the fact that the PDF exporter uses hard page breaks and the Word exporter uses soft page breaks. In any event, depending on what you need, you may be able to use a single report (i.e., a single place where the logic and datasets are set up once only) and then reference that report as a subreport elsewhere with a different page size. Just be sure to thoroughly test the result in any allowed export formats.
I hope this helps!
I have a requirement to insert a blank page after every page when an SSRS report is printed/exported to PDF, however this needs to be controlled via a parameter.
The reason for this requirement is that when the report is printed each page of data needs to be printed onto a separate piece of paper, however the majority of printers are set to double sided by default. Users aren't able to change the default setting except on each occasion they print. Unfortunately this double sided print setting isn't applied everywhere so there needs to be an ability to control the addition/removal of blank pages.
I am able to force a blank page to be created after every page by simply setting the size of the report bigger than the page size, though it isn't possible to control page width size via an expression.
My only thought is that this may be possible via custom code but don't really know where to start with that.
If you go to the table properties, you can set an expression for the Page Break Disabled property. This will allow you to disable / enable a page break based on a parameter. In this example I created a boolean parameter called Break. If its set the parameter to True, you will get an additional page after your table. Hope this can get you started!
I have a SSRS report. I am using grouping and my report is having n number of pages.
Is it possible to have the html display of the report in a single page with out page break and the exported version( pdf, excel) have the page break). Any idea. Please share some thoughts.
Thanks in advance
Anna
Short answer: Set the InteractiveHeight = 0
According to Microsoft:
Soft page breaks are calculated at run
time by the control. Although it is
not recommended, you can disable soft
page breaks by setting
InteractiveHeight to 0.
InteractiveHeight and InteractiveWidth
are used by the HTML rendering
extension to provide the equivalent of
PageHeight and PageWidth. Because the
HTML output format dynamically resizes
a report to accommodate drilldown,
drillthrough, and show/hide features,
the report server uses different
properties to support pagination on
dynamic pages.
EDIT Comment Answer:
In the Layout mode, bring up Properties panel. At the top of the Properties panel is a drop down to select which control's properties you are looking at, select Report You will then find “Interactive Size” that includes Interactive Height property.
What version of SSRS? 2008 lets you specify a different page size for interactive and regular paper (ie the html version will render different than say PDF).