Im building out an SSRS report for a client and when i build it, seems to be fine. when I print or do a printer preview however, the report and its contents are being printed over 4 pages rather than all on one page. I could use some help as I dont deal with SSRS that much.
Thanks
In the designer you should open the Document Outline view. The basic structure for a report is something along these lines:
Report
-> Body
-> Control / tablix / subreport 1
-> Control / tablix / subreport 2
-> etc
-> Page Header
-> Page Footer
If you select the Report item, the properties pane will show you several important properties:
Page Size (for printing and pdf renderer)
Interactive Size (for other renderers)
Margins
These properties determine on what sizes the report should be printed. If you select the Body item, you will also see a Size property. That size could grow, depending on your tablixes, because they may expand horizontally and vertically.
Basically if your body size is larger than the Page Size (and margins) allow for, the printer will render additional pages. You should play around with those values to fix your issues, I'd think. Looking at your example screens you could start with:
decreasing the margins
changing the page size so it becomes landscape
play around with positioning in the body to fit more content on a page
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I have seen some mind-binding situations with SSRS reports in my few years of using it, and I've been able to design around most issues and get it to do everything I've been asked to do.
But apparently, not something extremely simple!
I'm using Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7.2 with the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Designers
version 15.0.19124.0 installed. There's no data bound to the report, this is just a simple design concept.
I have a report that has a static custom page size (in centimetres), interactive size and no margins (12.8 x 17.8cm).
The body size is deliberately set to make it a two page report (2 x the page height).
'ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace' on the report properties is set to true.
Page 1 has an image, consuming the entire space of Page 1 (size of 12.8 x 17.8), with a Text box placed near the bottom right of the image (overlaying it, but not exceeding the width or height of the page, and is set to not grow).
Page 2 is exactly the same, with the content starting where Page 2 would and should start (0, 17.8). However, the Page 2 content is set to hidden (hidden = true, on both the image and the textbox).
When previewed, the report renders two pages, one of which is blank.
If I take the Page 2 content textbox off, and preview it, the report renders as one page (as I need it to).
The same issue occurs if I replace the textbox with a Rectangle or Tablix (the two objects I really need to use in this report as well as the textbox located where it is) and set them to hidden.
Moving any of these objects to the top of Page 2, still results in the same behaviour.
It seems that certain objects, despite being hidden, have space allocated that can't be 'rolled up / truncated / shrunk'. Is this 'by design behaviour'?
Is there some form of magic-witch-craftery I'm missing here to get this to work, or simply something I'm not understanding... ?
Thanks for reading!
Note: So far I have tried the 'Switch to inches, then back to centimeters' solution mentioned in other posts along these lines, have varied 'Keep together' properties, checked 'CanGrow' and 'CanShrink' property changes - all of which have not helped find a solution.
The report body should be set at most wide enough to fit on your output page and long enough to hold all your report items. When you want different items to appear on a new page, put them in a container with a page break set either before or after (whichever is most appropriate). This can also be handled in a data driven manner using page breaks on table groups.
There is no requirement to have white space within your report design to 'fill up' the rest of the page on the rendered report.
If you want anything to appear at the bottom of the report, simply put it in the footer section. If you want specific things to appear at the bottom of the page of different heights on different pages, that is more of a challenge and will usually require some clever data driven spacers within the report body.
I have a report that requires specific formatting so that it can print to a page of Avery labels. I have set up the report to be two tables side by side to represent the two columns of labels. When I export the report to MS Word and print, the items line up perfectly within each on label on the actual sheet. However, when I export to PDF, my top margin is too big so the alignment with the labels on the paper is off. Does anyone know how to make the PDF export respect my top margin?
Page Size: 8.5in x 11in
Margins:
Top = 0.505in
Bottom = 0.3in
Left = 0.24in
Right = 0.31in
SSRS honors two major render formats. First, the soft page-break render includes the report preview, Word, Excel, and HTML and is more designed for reports which are displayed on a screen. To the contrary, the hard page-break format is utilized by pdf and image format among others, and is more designed for physical printing of reports. A soft break render uses InteractivePageSize as a guide for displaying the report and generally ignores the Margin settings; the hard break format adheres strongly to the PageSize settings and also to the Margins.
These are the main features of each one:
Soft page breaks:
Margins are not applied
Inserted, explicit, or forced page breaks are honored
Report sizes can adjust to include orphaned and oversize objects in a report
Hard page breaks:
Pages moves left to right and then top to bottom
Inserted, explicit, or forced page breaks are honored
Items that are set to keep together may still be pushed to a next page if not enough spaces exists
These two render formats are driven by two report properties found in the Page Category section of report properties. The InteractiveSize Width and Height control the size of the soft page-break render formats. When an object is displayed using one of the hard break renderers, then the PageSize and Margins properties are used.
I am formatting reports and while previewing the page is overflowing
I would like to have Tablix and 2 charts on a single page.
Please see below:
I made sure there are no Page breaks in either Tablix or the charts...
I checked Report -> Report Properties -> Landscape and also made sure
margins are 0.5in and width > height.
Please let me know what am I missing here?
Thanks
Aruna
Check the size of the body of the report, does this go over the landscape size? If it does it will go over onto 2 pages when you preview the report.
I have modified a sales invoice report of Dynamics AX. When I deploy and open report in Ax it shows that report has 1 page, but if I export it as PDF or if I print it out then it has two page, first page as it should be and second extra page only with header / footer. I tried to reduce size of header / footer but the problem isn't solved and also if I reduce them fields are moved from wanted positioned as we use pre-printed papers to print reports.
How can I get rid off extra unwanted page?
Often I find that problems like this are related to the page size, report size, and margins. Take a look at the Report properties and take note of the page size and margins. Make sure that in the Body properties of your report, the size is less than the difference between the page size and margins.
This is most likely an easy question to answer but for whatever reason I'm not seeing it. I have an SSRS report (8.5 X 11) developed in Report Builder 3.0 SQL server 2008R2. The report just has a header section and body. The body consists of 3 tablix objects; each table can have 1:N rows and any of the tables can have enough rows to cause the report to print a new page. The margins are all .25 inches and the width of the report is causing no problems. However, when it is printed I am getting the 1st page with the header data and a page of table data, the 2nd page prints just the header data, the 3rd page prints the header data and the rest of the table data, and the 4th page prints just another page of header data. Why are the extra header pages being printed? Thanks for any help.
What is most likely happening is that part of your report is too wide, and the extra space is printing on the second page. It's usually the report body (it can change as you add columns to your tables) - I would check that first. Just look at the properties and make sure the width isn't wider than what will print on your page.
If you're having trouble identifying which section the extra width is coming from, try changing the background colors on the header, body and footer sections. Set each of them to a different color, then print the report to pdf. You’ll see the colors in the pdf and be able to identify which one is too wide.