I have two Tablix controls on my SSRS report. I want one of them to export and one not to export. I have accomplished this by setting the hidden property on the one I want to export to:
"=Globals!RenderFormat.IsInteractive = True"
and the one I do not want to export to:
"=Globals!RenderFormat.IsInteractive = False"
This works perfectly when I export to Excel, however CSV simply ignores these values and exports both Tablix controls. I need to know how I can force CSV to only export one Tablix control.
Format options such as expressions on visibility are ignored for CSV rendering methods. CSV rendering methods are essentially data flows, so you can suppress elements that you don't want to include in CSV files by changing the DataElementOutput from Auto, the default value, to NoOutput.
You can't conditionally set the DataElementOutput, but you can conditionally set the tablix filters. That will leave the header row in the csv output, but trims the data rows.
Try setting the visibility.hidden property of the tablix you don't want to export to CSV to:
=(Globals!RenderFormat.Name = "CSV")
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robertbruckner/archive/2010/05/02/globals-renderformat-aka-renderer-dependent-report-layout.aspx
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Can Excel render only the visible row groups on a report?
I have a report [SSRS 2017] that has nested row groups on the Tablix.
The child groups are hidden by default, toggled by a report field. When you run the report, the default view displays just the summary rows.
Folks naturally try to export this to Excel (to work with just the summary rows) and of course When they export to Excel (collapsed or not) they get the grouped child rows:
Is there any way for SSRS to suppress hidden row groups when exporting to Excel (while still having a working toggle on the web version of the report)?
My fallback is to duplicate the report, remove the child row groups altogether, and just link to the "simplified" version of the report for that purpose.
thanks!
I haven't done this before but I have seen the theory for this once.
You would want to add an extra column and use it as the Toggle Item. Then set the visibility for the new column based on whether it's an EXCEL export.
=IIF(Globals!RenderFormat.Name="EXCEL" or Globals!RenderFormat.Name="EXCELOPENXML", True, False)
I haven't seen it work, so I don't know if will work the way you want.
The solution above does not work if you want to hide detail rows shown by drilling down.
For this case there's another way:
Create a boolean parameter to "suppress details" for example ExcelHide.
Create a copy of the tablix you want to hide the details from.
Set visibility parameter of the ORIGINAL tablix to the value of the parameter. This will HIDE this tablix when the parameter is true.
Set visibility parameter of the COPIED tablix to the negated value (not ExcelHide) of the parameter. This will SHOW this tablix when the parameter is false.
On the COPIED tablix, hide all elements you do not want to export to Excel.
When the report is run you set the parameter so you can show the details for regular operation and hide elements to allow successful export to Excel.
Almost there! I achieved this by setting the DataElementOutput property in my Tablix to "NoOutput", then prefixing the following to any fields in the rows I wished to exclude from my CSV export:
=IIf(Globals!RenderFormat.Name="CSV",Nothing,[YourValue])
Hope this helps folk and thanks [#Hannover Fist].
So I'm trying to export my SSRS to .CSV. The layout of my report is like this:
Everything does work fine, on my VS. However, when comes the time to generate it I get this:
I've read a few other post on Stack Overflow about how I can change my SSRS config for noheaders and ASCII. Thing is, people tried to set column names programatically, but here I only have expressions for cell contents and a current layout. Is there a way to make my CSV lay out look like my reportbuilder layout? Or is my problem the same as when people try to set the column programatically
For each data field you want to export set the DataElementName to match the field title and set the value to the DataElementOutput to output the field.
For the header textboxes set the DataElementOutput to NoOutput.
For more detail check the following microsoft link
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255251.aspx
I want to hide one field in SSRS when I export the report. I know that if I put NoOutput property it will work but I have one more expression that I want to put for field visibility. I have this expression for my visibility and works fine for Excel, PDF,...
=IIf(Parameters!Limited.Value=false,false,true)
But when I export to CSV this doesn't work.
How can I improve this so that it also works for CSV?
You have to remember that there are 2 types of exports in SSRS:
Data export - CSV and XML
Image based export - Word, PDF, Excel, TIFF, printing
The visibility property will only be read when you export to an image based export, and the data output property will only be read when using a data export.
If you can live with having the column there with the data being blank, then use Aldrin's method. If you want the column to not be there when exported and the columns you don't want to export is known in advanced, you're can use d b's way which is have 2 different tables, 1 for display but all the data is no output, the other output only for data export and visibility hidden.
If you need to do "No Output" dynamically, then that is pretty much impossible as a limitation of SSRS.
Put this script under Visibility property.
=IIF(Globals!RenderFormat.Name = "CSV", True, False)
or Just this
=Globals!RenderFormat.Name = "CSV"
It is not possible to conditionally hide a field for CSV output in SSRS.
But if it is very important to you, you can go through the trouble of creating 2 (or more) nearly-identical tables and show/hide the entire tables conditionally.
The contents of hidden tables (as opposed to rows and cells) do not get exported to CSV.
=IIF(Globals!RenderFormat.Name = "CSV", True, False)
This doesn't work.
The only option is to create as many reports with the different column combinations then load the correct one dynamically.
Can someone tell me why this doesn't work?
I have the "Column Visibility" set to "Show or hide based on an expression"
The expression is the following:
=IIF(Globals!RenderFormat.Name = "CSV",True,False)
Save to CSV, Column shows.
Format options such as expressions on visibility are ignored for CSV rendering methods. CSV rendering methods are essentially data flows, so you can suppress elements that you don't want to include in CSV files by changing the DataElementOutput from Auto, the default value, to NoOutput.
I have a simple table based report in SSRS 2008, There are 10 columns and each column has a corresponding parameter to determine whether the column should be shown. I achieve this by setting the Column Visibility option you get when right clicking on the column header in design mode. In my case I choose to 'Show or Hide based on an expression' to which I set the expression to the value of a parameter which is a boolean type.
The functionality works as expected during the initial render however when I choose to export the report to CSV the visibility expression is either ignored or not evaluated because the columns show up regardless of the setting.
The visibility dialog has three options, Show/Hide/Show Or Hide based on expression - If I explicitly set Hide option the CSV export does not include the column as you would expect however if I use an expression it will - I even went so far as to make the expression explicit like '=True' and still it was ignored.
How do I get the export option to evaluate this properly?
Here's a solution by KarenH in the article Hide/Show Items Dependant On Export Format
Basically, you can set the DataElementOutput = NoOutput on the control you want to hide.
This worked for me to hide tables when exporting to CSV.
You cannot hide or omit columns for the export, using expressions. This is because the expressions will only get evaluated in the report itself, not the export.
a workaround would be to hide the columns by default and show all others using the expression.
my apologies, that above statement made no sense. It seems what you will have to do is make a parameter that will show which columns to hide or display, then when the report runs just don't display any data in those columns. You can also change the value of the column heading based on these parameters.
The only other option is to create as many reports with the different column combinations then load the correct one dynamically.
I believe this may be a bug. I have used the Reporting Services export with hidden columns dependant on a parameter at runtime. If I run the report with the columns hidden and then export the result to Excel or PDF or most exports formats the hidden columns are NOT exported. If I export the report to a CSV file, the hidden columns ARE exported. Surely this is a bug in the CSV export.
Logically they should all behave in the same way.