I have grabbed the text from a webpage, and put it into a TextBox using:
TextBox1.Text = WebBrowser1.Document.Body.InnerText
Now in that text box, I have :
Show Me HowDevice Status
ORDER CARTRIDGE LESS THAN 700 PAGES
Help
Pause/Resume Continue
I want to be able to grab the "ORDER CARTRIDGE LESS THAN 700 PAGES" from the textbox, and put it as the text to TextBox2.Text
I have been looking for ways to do this, but I'm just not finding any resolution. This is the simplest amount of text I can get the page down to. This text can also change depending on the printer's status. So I'm basically looking for a way to get the data between Status and Help, and assign it to another textbox's text. I hope this makes sense... If it's easier to get it from the HTML please assist me with that. Below is some of the code from the HTML of the page.
<div id="Text1" style="font-size:14px; padding-top: .7em; padding-bottom: .7em;" >ORDER CARTRIDGE
LESS THAN 700 PAGES
</div>
To answer your specific question:
If you have a good reason to display the whole text in textbox1, and the string you require is always the second line:
TextBox2.Text = Textbox1.Lines(1)
To get direct from the browser:
TextBox2.Text = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("Text1").InnerText
But as the others have mentioned, there are probably better ways to accomplish your task.
What exactly are you trying to do?
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Apologies if this has been asked before, I did look around but I'm new to SSRS and I might not know the right keywords to find what I'm looking for.
I am trying to make a new report with a couple of sentences like:
The purpose of this report is to determine an academic plan for student __________, by listing all the courses they will take.
I would like this to display in my report "just like" a paragraph of text, except that I would like the blank filled in with the student's name.
I understand how to do "basic" textboxes and how to bind values to them.
But how to I get a textbox that knows to expand horizontally until it reaches the end of the line, and then continues on the next line? If this was HTML (with some binding libraries like Knockout), I'd stick it all in a <p>, like:
<p>The purpose... <span data-bind="studentName" />, by listing ... </p>
You need to use placeholders, they will do exactly what you want.
Create a text box with the full sentence, then at the position where you want the student name to appear, right-click on the actual text and choose 'create placeholder'.
Once the placeholder is visible, right-click and choose properties, then just set the value to whatever you want.
The placeholder is like an inline textbox, you can set it to be the contents of a field or an expression, give it it's own formatting etc...
If you need a field in a text box with static text, you'd put the text in quotes and use the & to combine them
="The purpose of this report is to determine an academic plan for student " & Fields!NAME.Value & " by listing all the courses they will take."
Text boxes don't expand horizontally though. The text will take up as much room in the text box as it can and then will make a new line in the text box - expanding vertically.
Hoping you are using BI Studio to do this.
I am assuming that your underlying query just produces one value called FieldName and your data source is called DataSource. The text will wrap to your textbox but you can add in a vbCrLf if you want to force linebreak. Concatenating strings you can use + or &.
In your textbox make a formula and set it to:
="First part of string "+First(Fields!FieldName.value, "DataSource")+" rest of sentence"+vbCrLf+"more string"
I set up my TextBoxes to be close together:
Yet when the report is generated, they are barely in the same zip code:
How can I prevent this AWOListic behavior of the ExecutionTime (and, to a lesser extent, UserID) TextBoxes?
UPDATE
I'm sure the answer is correct, but getting it to work is another matter. When I right-click in the Textbox and select "", I am able to navigate to the Date format I want:
...but after I mash the "OK" button, I get:
So it's another case of non-intuitive/non-user-friendly software. I guess the Redmondians are standing in the bread line and can't afford to make it work as it should.
just use 1 text box, just right click inside textbox select "create placeholder"..
I been trying to research it a bit and this may be frowned upon, but I don't want to learn how to do everything in VB since I'm just doing what should be a 5-10 minute program to make something a little easier for myself. So sorry for that in advance.
Anyways, I just want to add colors or any formatting really to make stuff easier to read or the like. I originally was doing textboxes with the read only attribute and found you couldn't add good formatting with it. Label was similar in terms you could add one color a label. RichTextBox was the next idea and while it works, it seems like quite a bit of work for what I'm needing.
I just want an idea on how to make a single form have a font like "these three words"
It's super easy with bbcone and html, and I can't imagine the best way in VB is something that takes around 10 lines for one string of text.
Thanks.
Like you don't want to learn how to, but have notions of Html, then I think that the best solution for your needs is to use this 3rd party user-control, Html Renderer, which can render html/css code.
Another approach is to use a WebBrowser as mentioned in the comments, however, it will be (very)slower, or also you can use the MSHTML ocx which Microsoft specified that is more focused to document renderization tasks, but is harder to use than the specified user-control because you will need to investigate for the online documentation and usage of the MSHTML members, and seems that you don't want to do, since you specified that a RichTextBox has too much effort for your needs.
I have a richtextbox1 which has some text in it - I use the code below to search through the text and change specific words to a different font/style and color :-
DIM TZZ as String
TZZ = RichTextBox1.Text
TZZ = UCase(TZZ)
Dim x As Single
For X = 1 To Len(TZZ)
Dim y As Single = InStr(TZZ, "CHANGES MADE")
If y > 0 Then
Dim intLength As Integer = 12
'select the text
RichTextBox1.Select(y - 1, intLength)
RichTextBox1.SelectionFont = New System.Drawing.Font("Tahoma", 10, FontStyle.Bold Or FontStyle.Italic)
RichTextBox1.SelectionColor = Color.Red
Mid(TZZ, y, 12) = "123456789012"
X = y
End If
Next X
RichTextBox1.Select(0, 0)
I want to ask if there is a way for me to get like a web element content. What i mean is:
the site
the program
You don't need to type the site address or where the element is, in need it only in this case(fully empty site with a few words only).
My question is that, wets say that you have a text on a webpage, and you want that text to appear in a textbox...That's it
you can use this :
Dim We As New System.Net.WebClient()
textbox1.text = We.DownloadString(_Url)
We.Dispose()
One of the many quirks of Reporting Services we've run across is the complete and utter lack of a CheckBox control or even something remotely similar.
We have a form that should appear automatically filled out based on information pulled from a database. We have several bit datatype fields. Printing out "True" or "False" just looks silly, as this is supposed to look like a form that has been auto-filled out, so we want to have a series of checkboxes and labels that are either checked or unchecked.
We are running SSRS 2005 but I'm not aware of SSRS 2008 having added a CheckBox control. Even if it did, we'd need to have an alternative for the time being. The best we've found so far is:
use Wingdings
use images
use text boxes with borders and print a blank/space or a capital X
All three approaches require IIF expression shenanigans.
The Wingdings approach seemed to work acceptably, and was the most aesthetically pleasing except that for whatever reason it didn't always print correctly. More importantly, PDF exports, also for whatever reason, converted all fonts (generally) to Arial and so we got funky letters instead of the Windings dingbats.
Images, being a pixel-based raster, don't do so well when printed along side vector stuff like text. Unless handled carefully, they tend to stretch, pixelate, and do other unprofessional looking things.
While these methods do work (some with limitations as mentioned above) none of them are particularly elegant.
Are we missing something obvious? Not so obvious? Does someone at Microsoft have a good reason why such a control was not provided in SSRS 2000, let alone 2 versions and 8 years later? This can't be the first time this issue has come up...
I, along with others in my shop, have used images, toggling the hidden attribute based on the field value (true or false). We haven't had any problems with blurring or scaling, unless we tried to increase the scale of the image beyond 100% obviously.
Another option I've used is similar to the wingdings idea, but I just use a plain old "X". On our forms at least, it is not uncommon for someone to use an X in a box instead of a check mark, so it looks completely acceptable. Plus, you don't have to worry about strange characters when printing.
As for why Microsoft does not include a checkbox control, I can't answer that as I've been wondering the same thing myself for a long time now.
I just wanna share the idea on this blog. SSRS: How to Display Checkbox on Report
First create a textbox
Then change the font family to Wingdings
Insert an expression on the textbox and write this expressions.
=IIF(Fields!Active.Value,chr(254),"o")
Fields!Active.Value could be anything from your query that should return a boolean value 1 or 0.
Then click Preview and see the checkbox ;)
More styles can be selected on the blog that I shared above.
Here is an example of my output
What I have used to display a check box (or ballot box):
1- create textbox (that will become your check box)
2- change font to Arial Unicode MS
3- in the expression window use:
ChrW(&H2611) for a filled-in checkbox
ChrW(&H2610) for an empty checkbox
Besides the different methods already presented, as of SQL Server 2008 R2 there's a built-in control that can be used for checkbox-alike functionality: the Indicator!
Have a look here for details on how to use it: https://web.archive.org/web/20190916105459/http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2012/08/04/displaying-checkboxes-in-an-ssrs-report/
To be able to use a field of type bit, you'll have to cast it to int first. This can be done either in the dataset query or by adding a calculated field to the dataset.
If you want the NULLs to come up as yellow, then you'll need to build the expression that way so it takes that requirement into account as well.
Here's a possible expression for a calculated field:
=Switch(
IsNothing(Fields!YourBoolean.Value), 50,
Fields!YourBoolean.Value = False, 0,
Fields!YourBoolean.Value = True, 100)
Depending on the meaning of your fields - is False good or bad - you may need to swap the zero and 100.
Another way to do thisd is go to "Placeholder properties" of TextBox and check Html - Interpret HTML tag as styles
Then in the Value - Expression put this line of code for checked:
="<font face=""Wingdings 2"" color=""green"">" & Chr(81) &"</font>" & "some other text"
Or this code sample for unchecked:
="<font face=""Wingdings 2"" color=""red"">" & Chr(163) &"</font>" & "some other text"
This way you can have checkbox and text in the same textbox.
Later edit:
If you are having problem displaying Wingdings 2 on Azure, then use Wingdings.
Apparently it works.
="<font face=""Wingdings"" color=""green"">" & Chr(253) &"</font>" & "some other text"
Or this code sample for unchecked:
="<font face=""Wingdings"" color=""red"">" & Chr(168) &"</font>" & "some other text"
You can also use a string calculated field like "[X]" or "[ ]". It's less pretty than the textbox with border but you don't have to put a specific control for the value and you can fill table or matrix with this.
At least there is some solution for the checkbox. I'm still looking for full justification for my text (In fact I'm looking for another solution than SSRS know).
ACCESS 97 could make this kind of thing but not SQL SERVER 2012.
I think there is a bug with SSRS and embedding font characters above 128 (some thing todo with ANSI encoding). Basically you can use 1-128 fine, the rest show up as tall rectangular blocks.
I like NY's idea of the textbox with a border and an optional X - this sounds simple and effective.
This is building on Dragos Durlut's answer. I don't have a high enough reputation to comment but I can answer...
I needed a checkbox as part of text that is passed as a parameter. The parameter contains HTML and is used in a placeholder set up just like Dragos suggests: HTML - Interpret HTML tags as styles.
Instead of having to switch between the HTML and the strings, you can use the HTML Escape Codes (& + # + CharCode + ; --> ¨)
="<font face='Wingdings'>¨</font> Empty checkbox"
Since mine is a parameter, it just pass in the string:
<font face='Wingdings'>¨</font> Empty checkbox
If you need the checkbox selected, you would pass in either ý or þ instead:
<font face='Wingdings'>ý</font> filled with an x
<font face='Wingdings'>þ</font> filled with a checkmark