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).
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Is it possible to use VLookup in SSRS ? I know we can use lookups but I want to create a SSRS report with Vlookup then export it to excel ?
If you don't know difference between lookup and Vlookup then, Vlookup works dynamically, e.g. if you enter value in a textbox, it gets results from datasets in the report.
E.g.
TextBox for OrderId : ______
TextBox for Location : *****
When user adds a orderId location text box gets updated, and it all happens dynamically.
Unfortunately, this isn't possible with SSRS. SSRS will not let you export Excel formulas.
The closest you may be able to get is to have SSRS export the file to a location then have an SSIS job update your file with the formula you want in a Script Task:
...
ExcelFormula = "=SUM(" & SumColumn & "45:" & SumColumn & Row.ToString & ")"
Worksheet.Cells(Row, Column - 1).Formula = ExcelFormula
...
http://bidn.com/Blogs/updating-a-single-excel-cell-using-ssis
Refresh Excel using SSIS script task
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms403358.aspx
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.
My 2008R2 SSRS report contains a detail column called debit which is formatted like "#,0.00". When I export the file via .csv the debit column does not always have the right formatting of 0.00. If the number is 0, then what appears is "0". If the number is 123.40, then it appears as 123.4. If the number is 123.44, then it appears as 1213.44.
I want each number in this column to always have 2 decimal places in the .csv file. I checked out many other articles on stackoverflow about this, but none seem to address this issue correctly.
I tried changing the format to many other formats. I noticed when I changed the format in SSRS to "C" for currency, then the 2 decimal places appeared. But the problem with that is my users do not want the "$" symbol.
I tried changing the CSV export to ASCII format in the config file, but that did not work.
I used the code here:Non-Unicode CSV Export from SQL Server Report Server
Can anyone help me with getting the format correct in the CSV file without mannually changing the CSV file?
Thank you!
The problem mentioned is report header's are being displayed when user generate report for CSV format, which is not supposed to be like that. But actually in CSV Format, While in the preview , we can hide or show report header's and it doesn't show textbox names .
While in the exported/generated one , the CSV format hides the report's headers, but instead of that it shows textbox names and any changes We made in the properties to change that textbox name to make it as blank or disappear, it reflects on that column values but doesn't on that textbox name.
So I want to mention that better We can give some other meaningful names or by default it shows as 'Textbox1', but we must give any valid name to that textbox name and it appears on the generated CSV format.
NOTE: I also want to mention that all visibility properties works well with the report header's but not on the textbox names.
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).