I have an Access report that has a couple subheaders, and when I run the report, I can see all of the data. However, if I go to print it or to export to PDF, it prints only the first and last pages. Interestingly, the page count that we have at the bottom will say pages 1 of 4 and 2 of 4 for those two pages that print/export, but it is clearly missing the data in the middle.
What it looks like is happening is that it prints the first section and all its subheaders, then (still on the first page) it prints as many of the subheaders in the second section as it can fit on the page and then can't fit any more on the page. Then it prints the last page and the data that would appear there.
How can I make sure that all the data that I see in the actual report actually appears in the printed/exported PDF version?
You need to change your view from "Report View" to "Print Preview".
"Report View" is NOT the same as "Print Preview"
Once you're in print preview you have the option of setting page size, margins, etc.
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I'm hoping this isn't a bug in Access but my research so far shows me that tabbed forms and reports are somewhat troublesome --
I've got a big report to print with more than 500 lines, 6 text boxes on each line; since Access reports are limited to 22" length (2 8.5 X 11 pages), I figured tabbed is the way to go.
Because there are, all told, 56 text boxes to go on each tab, I first created the model for my report as a regular (not tabbed) report. Once I had it all working correctly (and printing correctly), I copied it in its entire into a 5-tab report.
As I said, it prints just fine in the simple report BUT:
Print Preview on the tabbed report puts a blank page or a page with a single vertical line on the left margin (it actually looks like it might be part of the frame of the tabbed page) or a page with a single 1/2" horizontal line at the left end of the top margin (which looks like it might be the page break but it's still there after I delete all page breaks) between every page. So that in print preview my 10 pages wind up as 20 pages, 10 of the blankish.
It's worse when I try to actually print as I get only 6 pages, 5 of them blank.
Am I doing something wrong or do tabbed reports simply not print in Access? Or at least in Access 2010?
Thanks in advance.
I am building a label report that requires the user to input a Bulk Order Number that will generate multiple labels. When viewed in preview mode and on the report server, images on the report for postage and company logo appear on every instance of a label (report page).
However when exported to PDF, these images only render on the first label (page)
I considered this may not be an issue, as the user could print from the report server when accessing the report. This isn't the case, as when trying to print, report server creates a PDF for you to print from. There are no other options regarding printing other than page size and orientation, a PDF seems to be the only method from which you can print from.
The images I use have the visibility controlled by parameters, so you can select 1st or 2nd class postage, and choose to have the logo visible.
Each image also has the RepeatWith property set to the Tablix that contains order and address details.
When exported to word, the labels all appear as desired with postage and/or logo images on each instance. This is a step I would like to avoid, as it would be much nicer to have the user print directly from the report server, even if this still requires a printer friendly PDF to be created.
I have attached am image to show PDF output.
Any ideas how I can get these images to render on each label (page)?
EDIT
Image of design page
Based on the design view image you posted, it looks like the only thing repeating is your tablix containing the address information. The SSRS RepeatWith property doesn't seem to work well with .pdf exports so the workaround for this would be to drop everything into a single cell on a list object and grouping using the Order_No to repeat everything. This should remove the need to mess with RepeatWith and give you the desired results.
Wondering if someone can point me in the right direction. I currently have a report with 5 sub sections of data, each surrounded with a Rectangle.
I am wanting each sub section to appear on a new page and then be able to export to Excel and each section to appear on a new Tab.
I set Page Break / Break Location in each Rectangle to "Start" and label the PageName to what I want to call the Tab. When I run the report the 4 subsections show correctly but I am left with a blank page before I get the 5 section, but when I export it to Excel it appears correctly.
What I want is 5 pages in the report for each section and when exporting I want 5 tabs, can someone tell me where I am going wrong with setting the pagebreaks if that is indeed what I am doing incorrectly.
Thanks
As you are successfully exporting to Excel, but not the report viewer, this suggests your report and page sizes are not correctly set up on your 4th subsection.
When you have report elements that are slightly too large for your report page, the parts that 'overhang' will generate a new page of just the part that overhangs. This is often a very small amount of white space, so it looks like the page is completely blank. When you are exporting to formats such as excel, this does not matter so you correctly see the page breaks as new sheets.
To check whether this is the case, add borders and fills of different colours to all your rectangles and then run the report. On your 4th 'blank' page, if you see any colours or borders you will know which rectangle or report element is growing beyond its page.
I have a report is ssrs, it consist of a main report which has a header containing the page number and 2 sub reports (report page 1 and report page 2) within a tablix. Report page one comes first, then report page 2 displays on the next page after the end of report page 1. The subreports can be anywhere from 1-3 pages. The page numbering is reset between each set of report page 1 and 2 (so if page 1 is 3 pages and page 2 is 2 pages, it goes from page 1-5, then resets). These are called for each record (with grouping) from the main reports' query. The report is around 1000 pages total. It renders perfectly on screen, but when I try to export to PDF, it will sometimes (like 1 time in the 1000 pages) display part of report page 2 on a page (as expected, the page number matches with it), then it will start printing report page 1 of the next group on the same page.
Here is the layout of the main report:
Here is the document outline for better understanding:
And here is the page that is wrong...
This is what it should look like (the last page of sub-report page 2 even has just the total record like the broken one!
I have tried everything I can think of. I have tried (i think) every combination of page breaks on the rectangles and groups, I have tried making a tablix with 2 rows using the same group and again tried every combination of page breaks. I have tried changing the number of records on a page. I have tried changing the consume whitespace option on both sub and main reports. I have tried adding both calculated and random amounts of white space. I have recreated the report from scratch a couple times. I'm sure there's more, but it would be like going through a full feature list of SSRS... Basically, I tried everything I could think of, then everything suggested in the links on the first page of about 10 different google searches. I just have no idea what is going on with this, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Let me know if you need any more info, screenshots, or whatever and I will try to provide. It may be highly "redacted", but I will provide anything I can.
Thanks, Kevin
Try check the setting "Between each instance of a group" in group properties of tablix.
Try checking your XML for empty TablixRows (which will not show up in the Document Outline). I found with my report that empty tablix rows screw up page breaks in subsequent rows / sub reports when exported to PDF. Where possible hide the TablixRows or insert and empty text box.
This appears to be a bug with SSRS when editing the XML by hand. The Visual Studio GUI seems to not let you delete the last element in a row - perhaps this is a work around. An error or schema validation message would have been nice for us hand coders!
Hope this helps.
I have a long report in SSRS with 3 tablix. I would like to have it in a single page when viewed in the browser, but when printed i want to have each tablix on it's own page.
Is it possible to define page breaks that only applies to printing?
you can make conditional page breaks but I think that this issue that you want to do is impossible.
see if this might help, the idea behind was to insert a text box in my footer and to print this text box only on even pages:
=iif(Globals!PageNumber Mod 2,True,False)
Let me know if this works