I am trying to implement Expand or Collapse facility to my report in SQLSERVER 2008R2.
For that purpose I have taken a text box named TextBox16.
But when I went to Tablix property and then visibility and then hide and Display can be toggled by this report item. Here I am not able to see all text boxes it showing to me, only odd number text boxes. Then how can I find all text boxes from Tablix property?
How to see all text boxes:
Click on the body of the report.
Hit F4.
Under the properties title is a drop down with every single object in your report. All of your text boxes should be listed in here.
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So I have a form that has a button that, when clicked, will generate a report. I have a combo box in the form that will fill in a text box after it is changed. What I want to do is then take the info from that text box and display it as the header of my report using a label. I could not figure out how to do it that way, however, so I had to use a text box which works, but it is not very aesthetically pleasing. Any help would be appreciated.
I have a list and inside this list I have a text box.
Since it's a list, the text box value changes for each row in the dataset.
OUTSIDE this list, I have another text box which is part of the HEADER.
I want the HEADER to change based on the value of the text box in the list.
In the text box in the header, how do I reference the text box inside the list?
To refer to any report objects you can use ReportItems Collection.
In your header textbox put a expression like this to refer to textbox in the list:
=ReportItems!TextBoxList1.Value
Remember SSRS is case sensitive. Make sure you get the right name of the text box object you are referring to.
MSDN article on ReportItems
I'm new to both SSRS and development in general, and can't seem to find the answer to my problem. The report itself is simple-- a stored procedure collects responses and I display them using Lookup expressions in textboxes. Some fields are not required, so some of the textboxes are empty in my report. I would like to remove the white space left by the empty textbox.
In retrospect, I wish I had used a table to format the page, but since I have a very large number textboxes with expressions, I can't easily refactor my work. I found solutions for tablixes (Trying to Get Rid of White Space in SSRS Report), but nothing for free-standing text boxes.
Is this possible?
If you right click on the textbox and navigate to 'Textbox Properties...' you can toggle the visibility of the textbox, and if it is hidden you wont see the white box. You could also enter expressions, like the one below for example will hide the textbox if there is no data in it.
=iif(isnothing(reportitems!Textbox1.Value),false,true)
I'm having a problem with the way SSRS handles long text in Textboxes inside a Tablix when the first Textbox is broken by a page break. Here's the simplified setup:
Create a Tablix with a single cell.
Add a Rectangle to that cell.
Add 2 Textboxes to that Rectangle, one below the other.
Ensure CanGrow = True for both Textboxes.
Add data to each Textbox such that each one contains multiple lines and the first contains enough lines to force some of it's lines past the end of the page. It helps to set the Page height to something ridiculous like 1 inch for testing purposes.
It's necessary to preview the report in Print Layout mode or export it to PDF to see that all the lines in the first Textbox print, but the second Textbox only prints the first line. Taking enough lines out of the first Textbox to avoid splitting it across a page will allow the second Textbox to print all of its lines.
Am I missing something? Is there a way to get the Tablix to behave properly across page breaks? It's the Tablix because moving the Rectangle and Textboxes outside of the Tablix fixes the problem. I don't see a CanGrow or similar property on the Rectangle or Tablix. A workaround is to put each Textbox into its own Tablix row, but that's not ideal in my situation.
I was able to reproduce the problem, but looks like there is an easy workaround:
If you nest a second rectangle in the first, and then nest the second text box within that rectangle, my pdf came out correctly. I tried this with BIDS 2008R2, 11x8.5 (landscape) pages.
I have a batch detail report in SSRS 2005, the left most column is an NTEXT SQL field. I need to show the field in the report either as:
1). A collapsible text box so users can view detail in the field by clicking the expansion control OR
2). As a tool tip, so when users hover over the column, they can view the full detail
I can find code to collapse or expand all columns (i.e. the entire row) but not for a single text box in a table.
Any assistance greatly received, thanks!
I don't know how to make a collapsible text box in SSRS, but there is a ToolTip property for text boxes - just select the Text Box, then select the required value for the ToolTip property from the dropdown list of expressions in the Properties window.
The tool tip is only displayed in browsers, not in preview mode in the SQLServer BIDS report designer (as far as I can tell).