Afternoon all,
I have a simple bar graph in SSRS 2005. I wish to apply some conditional formatting to this bar graph but i am unable to get this working.
I believe that i should be able to add formmatting within the 'Chart Properties --> 'Data' tab --> 'Values' section? I have added the following code to the Expression editer but this doesnt work. when i preview the report it shows the bar graph colour as green as this is the default pallette?
=IIF(fields!Value.Value <=129, "blue", "yellow")
I have also tried to add this to the 'Format' property of the chart but i am still unable to see this formatting.
Am i missing something? Can anyone suggest a working solution or another method?
Regards
Betty
Should work OK? I replicated by setting an expression under Data Field -> Properties -> Appearance -> Series Style -> Fill -> Color.
=IIf(Fields!val.Value < 150, "Red", "Blue")
So something like:
Final result:
Only other consideration is that, depending on your underlying data, you might need an aggregate in the expression:
=IIf(Sum(Fields!val.Value) < 150, "Red", "Blue")
But you can see that it should be possible.
Related
I'm struggling (spending LOTS of time trying to figure this out) to make an iff statement work in SSRS/Report Builder.
I'm pulling a VARCHAR into a report. In the VARCHAR, consists of lots of words/text.
I'm trying to colour this textbox if this VARCHAR string contains the word "red" or "amber" or "green".
If it does find either of these words in the VARCHAR string, I would like it to colour the textbox the same colour as the text it's looking for.
If it finds "red" in the VARCHAR, the textbox becomes red in colour, etc.
I've looked on google and youtube lots and have found two potential solutions:
iff(Fields!note.value.contains("red"), "red", "white")
-Above I believe should look for "red" in the VARCHAR string and then fill the textbox red if it matches or white if no match?
iff(InStr()<0, [true], [false])
The second option I have no idea how this would work. I apologise that my syntax for vba is awful. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I'm trying to learn SSRS and/or Report Builder on the job.
Please note I'm using Report Builder ver 15 OR Visual Studio 2019.
Kind regards.
You should be able to use Tostring.Contains() like this... (I've used SWITCH rather than nested IIFs as it's cleaner in my opinion.
=SWITCH(
Fields!AddressLine1.Value.ToString.Contains("Street"), "Red",
Fields!AddressLine1.Value.ToString.Contains("Road"), "Green",
Fields!AddressLine1.Value.ToString.Contains("Ave"), "Orange",
True, Nothing)
The last True acts like an else. I've also used Nothing which is the default 'transparent'
I used this on a test dataset and applied the expression to the last column, here are the results....
I'm using Report Builder 3.0. Long story short, I want to make the font bold for the text in the red box that you see in the image below:
Basically, it's just one expression in the legend field of my value, however, for clarity's sake (for my end users) I wish to make the "title part" bold. I found the following solution for textboxes in a tablix using Html by checking off the "HTML – Interpret HTML tags as styles." checkbox within the Textbox's properties. (http://www.sqlchick.com/entries/2010/10/31/using-different-formats-within-a-single-textbox-in-ssrs.html)
However, I can't find anything similar for graphs! I mean if MS thought about it for tables, I presume they must've given it some thought for a chart setting too.
Thanks to all!
p.s. As an aesthetic solution to my problem, I did think of simply creating a new title field, moving it to the exact same location and formating it. But I'm surious whether there'd be some more "proper" way of doing this.
I'm using the same approach for one of my charts.
STEPS.
Select the Chart series to open property pane. In my case, the chart series name is TWR Chart Series
Select the color property and select to build the expression.
I'm posting one of my expression. You can build your own expression base don your field names etc.
=IIF(Fields!ProductID.Value = 1 OR Fields!ProductID.Value = 6,"#00425E",
IIF(Fields!ProductID.Value = 3 ,"#6B8797",
IIF(Fields!ProductID.Value = 5 OR Fields!ProductID.Value = 7,"#799179",
IIF(Fields!ProductID.Value = 4 AND Fields!sort.Value=99,"#6bb1be","#48597B"))))
If used sensibly, you should get your desired results.Good luck.
I am working on rdl reports and as I had to add multilingual support, I need to be able to change the column headers' text by the selected language parameter.
I added this very basic custom expression to the header:
=IIF(Parameters!Language.Value="EN", "Date", "DateInDifferentLanguage")
but when I export the report to CSV this is completely ignored, moreover, the column header will be the assigned value's name.
I tried to search for solution for almost 2 days, but the only thing I found that I should use the DataElementName property. Well, for static values it works, but as the text is parameter-dependent I have to use custom expressions and this property does not allow me to use anything like that.
Hopefully, there will be no difference in the solution for grouped columns.
So, my question is: is it possible to add parameter-dependent custom expressions to grouped/not grouped columns?
EDIT: I just realized that you can't set the DataElementName property by expression. I'll leave this up in the off-chance that it may help in some way.
If you're wanting different expressions based on a parameter, try this:
Make sure you can see your Report Data. View -> Report Data(at the bottom)
Start by creating the parameter. Right click Parameters folder in the Report Data window -> Add Parameter... Let's call it 'Language'.
In the available values tab, click Specify Values. Add values for your languages, so the label will be what you want the viewer to see, make the value the same.
Label: English
Value: english
In the Expression you're trying to modify, simply put the available expressions you want in an SWITCH() block.
SWITCH(Parameters!Language.Value = 'english', [do english things],
Parameters!Language.Value = 'spanish', [do spanish things],
Parameters!Language.Value = 'chinese', [do chinese things],
True, [do english things])
I'm am having some trouble with conditional formatting in SSRS. I have tried Switch & IIF Statements (below). The report runs but is not returning colors as it I'm hoping it would. I'm trying to highlight dates which are <= today in red, and everything else will be black. Does it matter if this field is a date field? I've seeen other questions on here with the same issues but no resolutions. Was hoping today would be my lucky day to find an answer. Here is what I have tried and thank you in advance for any input.
=Switch( Fields!Decision_Must_Be_Made.Value <= today(), "Red",
Fields!Decision_Must_Be_Made.Value > today(), "Black")
=IIF( Fields!Decision_Must_Be_Made.Value <=today(), "Red", "Black")
Yes, it definitely matters if the field is a Date Time field. If it's a string, then you need to convert it to datetime first. How you do that will depend on the format of the string. But it will be much better if you can stick with a datetime field from the database. (I've seen where some will format a date to a string in the select of the sql query. Don't do that. Format as late as possible: in SSRS, at the text box level.)
If it is a dateTime, break up your formula to find out what's not working as expected and make it more visible, if only for debugging. Put this in the expression of a cell, for example:
=IIF( Fields!Decision_Must_Be_Made.Value <=today(), "Old", "New")
Edited to add information on where the color formula should be added:
Sounds like you don't have the IIF specifying the color in the right place. There are a few different places you could specify this: it needs to be in the properties of either the textbox or the placeholder. The value for these things should simply be your date field (=Fields.Decision_Must_Be_Made.Value) but the font color needs to be specified separately. One place to do this is in the Text Box Properties dialog. In the font pane, you need to specify the font color. The Fx symbol indicates that you can specify a formula. Click this button for a place to enter your '=iif...' formula.
Admittedly this does not answer your scenario but may help someone else. I had an issue where a stand-alone textbox using a scenario where I wanted to display an error message when there was either no record or duplicate records. My formula "=IIf(IsNothing(First(Fields!MyField.Value)) Or First(Fields!MyField.Value) <> Last(Fields!MyField.Value), "Red", "SomeOtherColorButNotBlack") which did not render the correct fore-color (came out "Black") however, doing a similar expression that equates to True or False on a Tablix or Matrix does work fine. Another one for MS to solve. I found my own workaround by setting the color to always be red and then the expression of the Text to be blank when no error.
I have SSRS solution for SQL 2005 and 2008.
I am showing output in the form of chart- column chart with each column representing different database.
Is there a way to display each column in different color?
Regards
Manjot
You can use a formula to set the colour of each column, but that would work best if you knew what the individual series values ('databases'?) were going to be.
Right-click on your chart and bring up its properties. Now switch to the Data tab and select the first item in the Values list. Click the Edit... button to show the properties for the values (the columns) in your chart. Over on the Appearance tab there's a Series Style... button which takes you to another dialog.
On this new Style Properties dialog, switch to the Fill tab. That's where you set the colour for each of your columns. This can be a formula, so you might make it something like:
=Switch(
Fields!Database.Value = "master", "Blue",
Fields!Database.Value = "msdb", "Red",
"Green")
If you don't know in advance which 'databases' are going to be represented on the chart, this method won't work very well. In that case you might be able to come up with a formula which hashes the database name and comes up with a colour to match. That sounds like an interesting challenge, so add to your question if you need help doing something like that.
Edit
I just got a hash-based-colour-scheme working. It's a pretty nasty piece of code, but it did manage to get me a unique colour for every (string valued) column. Perhaps someone can come up with a better algorithm and post it here. Here's mine:
="#" & left(Hex(Fields!Database.GetHashCode()), 6)
So that's getting the HashCode for the string (a numeric value) and converting it to hex, then taking the leftmost six characters and prepending it with a "#" sign. That gives us a string that looks like a colour value (eg #AB12F0).