I wish to include a vertical line on every page of my report, which runs from the top to bottom of the report body. How can I achieve this?
I've tried using RepeatWith, but it doesn't seem to work, the line appears only on the first page.
Thanks
Is this for look and feel purposes only?
I would create an image with such line and use it as the body background. Or if you're using a tablix that spans across multiple pages, another idea would be to create an empty column on the tablix with a border on the left side.
And yet another idea would be to use a rectangle with a left/right border and place all your tablixes inside the rectangle as this would make the rectangle to be expanded to multiple pages keeping the border (the vertical line) on your report.
I don't think that you can tell SSRS to automatically repeat lines on multiple pages.
I've figured out a way to solve that problem (without using RepeatWith, RepeatOnNewPage or Report Background Image)
I wrote a simple code to add blank rows to the table in the body. The number of rows to be added will be determined by the body height and the height of a row.
For example, if the body height is 6" and height of a row is 0.5" then a total of 12 rows can be fitted into one page. So if your table has 4 rows then add 8 extra black rows so as to make the table height equal to the report body.
If the number of rows is more than 12, say 15, then you'll add [12 - (15 mod 12)] rows
, i.e. 9 blank rows.
And you can have side borders on any of the columns as required, resulting in a vertical line running throughout the page.
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I have a report with a tablix in it. I just need to stay the tablix in a fixed position and shouldn't push down other elements down it. If say there are 4 rows which will be visible in the specified space and if more then it should not be visible and shouldn't push down other elements.
I tried several ways to prevent
Added tablix inside a rectangle(act as a container) so if it grouped it
will not push down other elements (didn't work)
Enable consume white space in report=true (didn't work)
Keep items together property is set to true in rectangle (didn't work)
Is there any other way to not to pushdown elements in the report even if the tablix gives more rows. It should only show the rows in the mentioned size.
Edit : 1 (7/28/2018)
All the three elements below is pushed down if the table has more rows.
Either I have to fit the rows in this table by reducing the size automatically if possible or It should not push down the elements.
Also if the tablix has less row the elements will move up. I just need to keep the elements (Expr) should stay in the same position.
You still didn't post your design but anyway, here is what I think you want.
The basic idea to to set the area you want you table to cover by using a rectangle of the same size. Then we will reduce the row heights within reason as the number of rows in the table increases. As you cannot directly change a row height, we can get round this by setting the row height to be very small and adjusting the font, as long as the can grow option is on the cells will grow to fit the font size, giving the effect of changing the row height.
Basic steps.
Create your report and add a rectangle that is the maximum size you want your table to be. In my example it's 38mm high.
Create a table inside the rectangle. I find this easier to create it outside then cut and paste it inside, simply dragging it over the rectangle will not work.
Position your additional text boxes, under the rectangle as desired. Set 'Consume Container WhiteSpace' on in the report properties.
Next we need to decide what the maximum and minimum font sizes are that acceptable. In this basic example I only use 3 sizes, 10pt, 12pt and 14pt. If you want to use more then you could write an expression to scale the fonts more accurately but you get the idea.
You'll need to determine the maximum number of rows you can fit into the rectangle when the minimum font size is used, in my case it's 5 rows at 10pt font. Your query will need to take this number into account and never return more rows than this.
On the table, the click row selector for the detail row (this basically selects all the cells in the row). Next, change the font size property to an expression. In this simple example I used this.
=SWITCH(
Parameters!topx.Value <3 , "14pt",
Parameters!topx.Value <5 , "12pt",
True, "10pt"
)
Next set the row height, choose any cell on the row and set the height to something small, I used 4mm but it doesn't matter as long as its' smaller then you will ever show.
In my example, for testing I added a 'topx' parameter and filtered the dataset using this, but this is only for testing.
The final design looked like this. I added a background colour to the rectangle so you can see how it remains static until it's filled.
Then running with various rows looks like this
finally, only if I exceed my maximum (5 rows in this case) does the text below move down.
You could include a column (let's call it RowNumber) in your dataset that shows the row number of the data. Then in your Tablix filter, you can set the filter to show only values from that "RowNumber" column that are less than or equal to the number of rows you want to display in the tablix.
You can use the same concept to limit the number of rows returned in your query, but without knowing how you are getting the data, it is not possible to help with that.
If you want your report to be that static, why not take a screenshot of the data and include that as an image in your report?
No serious reporting tool will "ignore" records that you pass to it using a Dataset, so that's the place where you will have to "ignore" all unwanted data yourself. Restrict the data in the Dataset to only 4 rows (maybe using SELECT TOP 4 ...).
In the SSRS report, I've a tablix which has a single row and a single column (single cell). That row has a single rectangle that contains other rectangles containing other elements. The visiblity expression is set at the tablix level (both tablix visibility and row visibility), but not at the contained rectangles etc. The tablix has a visibility expression set as:
=Fields!ShipmentType.Value<>"Sales
The tablix row also has its row visibility set as:
=IsNothing(Fields!Calc_ShipToAddress.Value)
I've checked the values of these fields and per the values the tablix must be hidden which it is, however, it is still taking whitespace on the PDF.
There are three other tablixes; all three have just the tablix visiblity set, but not the row visibility. Interestingly, these tablixes don't take the whitespace when hidden.
I've searched online various solutions including various posts on SO too, but none has worked for me so far. I've even set the visibility of the column for that tablix, but still it takes the whitespace.
I'm putting this as an answer for any future searches in the hope that it might help someone with a similar situation.
In my case, the reason for the top tablix to be always visible as white space (although all the text in it was hidden) was the height of the top tablix. That tablix was overlapping the next tablix by a small notch and hence was visible as a white space on the report. I zoomed to 400% for something else and accidentally found this overlap.
Once I fixed tablix's height, the report functioned as expected and the tablix was hidden completely (no white space).
I am working at a rdlc report and i want to Place a logo at the right most corner of the last column.
I placed it at fixed position at the top of last column. but when in a case a column hides in between than last column moves toward left but logo will remain at the same place and it creates a logo formatting issue.
please suggest an appropriate solution.
You have fallen foul of the inability of Reporting services to dynamically alter the location of items. It is not possible for you to automatically align this logo - without embedding it as part of a table. There are two ways around this problem.
Option 1
Add a new header row to your table. Merge the cells together. Insert a rectangle into it, and insert your logo on to this, as shown
The downside of this is when you hide a column, the last column expands to fill the new whitespace.
Option 2
Add a new header row to your table. Insert a rectangle into the furthest right column, and insert your logo on to this, as shown.
Notice how the logo moves with the columns
(4 columns visible)
(3 columns visible)
The downside of this however is that your final column must be the width of the logo, and must never be hidden, otherwise the logo will disappear.
Summary
These are the only workarounds I can think of. Hopefully one is suitable for you. As mentioned at the top SSRS really doesn't like dynamic layouting of objects!
I have a subreport that contains a small tablix at the bottom of the page. There is nothing above it, and it is inside of a rectangle that stretches to the top of the page.
As I add data, the tablix grows vertically downward, making two pages, but not using the whitespace above it.
How can I have the tablix always near the bottom of the page, and if it hits the bottom of the report, to start growing up?
I don't think you can.
Report items such as tablixes have two relevant properties:
Height;
Top (e.g. Position).
Only the first one can be dynamic. The latter can't be part of an expression. There also is not an option to set a fixed bottom (like you could do in CSS).
I need to shrink dynamically height of header on ssrs
I have found answer on: How to dynamically increase the page Header height in SSRS 2008 , but still I have problems as follows.
I have SSRS with several text boxes, (10 lines), and I want to show only one line for page 2 and after, and for page 1 - all of the lines.
I cannot shrink the size, because minimum size of header by default is the maximum element bottom position.
Can I control the size of height of the header dynamically?
Thanks :)
Page header and footers can not be dynamically sized. This allows support for more output devices but limits its use for many situations. A common work around is to use a Parent group above all others in your dataset that has a sql command that returns 1 row such as SELECT OneRow=1. You could place your header logic in this print once groups header and optionally show or hide the header based on first page last page etc.