My application is printing checks. In the client's paper stock, the "check" itself is at the bottom 3rd of an 8.5x11in sheet. The details that make up the check are on the top 2/3 of the sheet.
Now if I'm printing multiple checks in one go, I need the check to be essentially the page footer for my .rdlc, but that page footer must start at exactly the same vertical position on every page regardless of how many detail items are on the upper 2/3.
How is this accomplished with RDLC reports? I can easily solve the problem when the check is on the top 2/3 of the page because the table does not affect it's positioning. This one has me stumped.
If it helps, I am on SQL Server 2008.
Figured it out. Basically could use the page footer option (instead of table footer) in RDLC and put ReportItems! formulas in there. That worked fine for what I needed to do.
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I am working for the Vanuatu government at the moment and there is a very specific reporting requirement. The report needs to generate a formal document ("statement") for students ("learners") who have achieved some courses ("components") of a full qualification but not the complete qualification.
The dataset consists of a list of learners and for each learner the list of components they have achieved.
The requirements that generate issues:
A border should be displayed around the page content.
The number of components vary per learner.
There is specific data at the top and at the bottom of the page. At the bottom of the page there is data here that is learner dependent.
There needs to be one page per learner (I can control this by using slightly different versions of this report that would work based on the number of components per learner.
The design I created for the report can be seen here. This is the design that should work for any learner who has passed 1 to 4 components.
However, this does not work, because, depending on the number of components the learner has achieved, the data at the bottom is pushed down.
I thought I might be able to solve this by putting the image at the background of the whole report per page, and then put a header and footer in with the data that is learner specific. But this does not work either because it is not possible it seems to have a background image that covers the whole report page, including a header and future.
And the other problem is that there is a learner specific number (the statement number) that should go in the future, and I don't think I can put dataset data like that in the footer.
I also thought of splitting the background image in 3 parts, one each for the header, footer and body. But then I run into the same problem because I still need to get the learner specific statement number in the footer.
Another solution was to maybe have a fixed set of rows (partly invisible) in the list of components, to force the height of this list, but this does not really work either, because some titles of the components will be longer than the width of the page and wrap and take up two lines of text. Some others may not. So I don't know the height of each component line.
Is this possible at all in SSRS? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Try creating a rectangle in the space that will be taken by the components list.
Then cut the current text box containing your expression, click the rectangle then paste inside it. This will ensure that the rectangle is the container for the textbox.
Then, in Report Properties, set ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace to True. This should allow the textbox to grow within the rectangle
It seems so basic and surely resolved by SSRS 2014 SP1 but I can't find a way in Print Layout (for PDF ultimately, but this is simple display) to allow a tablix to render at the top of following pages when a text box displays above it on the first page (eg. address details which would not be wanted on every subsequent page filled by tablix results). This results in unprofessional wasted white space above the results on every page after the first.
The tablix seems "stuck" so it only starts on the page wherever you put it on the design layout (using Report Builder because SSDT not playing with VS2015, but same things should apply). That's when the text box above it naturally doesn't even display on the subsequent pages - why would it, it's done its job and is not repeateable! After all, it's not in a header.
Have set the textbox to CanShrink=true but its still holding the space (because it's content remains, fair enough).
Also tried hiding the textbox (and should be able to do this conditionally on subsequent pages) but whitespace is still there, which is odd and perhaps shows the real limitation.
Applied ConsumeContainerWhitespace=true on report level (you would have thought that would do the trick) but no joy.
Even put both textbox and tablix in a same Rectangle so they become "peers" and maybe control the whitespace better, but nope.
Would prefer the header to repeat and the textbox address to only be on the first page, but another annoying limitation is that for headers there's only a "PrintOnFirstPage" option, not one to print on first page only! Of course, a workaround for that like SSRS Report Builder - Only Show Header On First Page (With Page Numbers) is to move textbox into the body area and hide, but as noted, that still leaves the stupid whitespace on every subsequent page - d'oh!
Surely there's a way to resolve this basic requirement, or maybe I'm missing something obvious?
EDIT: Remembered I never had this problem before and realised it's now only because there are multiple Projects per Worker (sorry, not enough rep yet for pic). If I choose a parameter period with only one project, the line descriptions will continue on the top of any subsequent pages. Only if the tablix header group (Project: [TaskDesc] and Worker) changes does a new page start - but with the tablix at the original page 1 layout location (ie under the textbox), not at the top of the subsequent page where it should be. Hope this clarifies - looks like a bug, odd tablix behaviour, but maybe a workaround?
If you want a non-repeating TextBox, just make sure it's outside of a repeating report element. This means outside of a Tablix or Rectangle.
Just place the TextBox at the top of your page and place the Tablix/Rectangle below it. When the Tablix/Rectangle grows beyond the maximum page height, it will break and continue at the top of a new page.
If you simply think there is too much empty space at the top of the page, try fiddling around with the page margins.
I have this report in SSRS which has a footer. But everytime the report only contains a little data, the footer is located at the end of the last line. On the last page, the location of the footer is correct. Can anyone help me with this? Or has anyone experienced the same thing?
If my question or explanation lacks and you need more info, kindly tell me so that I could provide you with it. Thank you very much.
First I want to point out that despite the footer displaying at the bottom of your table, in the printed version the footer will appear in the correct location. My fix shouldn't mess this up but I recommend you double check if that is important to you.
OK so I know this seems like a ghetto fix but SSRS reports are finicky. This fix will work for multiple tables but will not work for tables with group page breaks (sorry if that is what you are doing).
Pull your footer line down to the bottom of your page. Use your measurements on the side. You will want to subtract the size of your footer and header AND the margins from your page size. Right click outside of the report page in the designer to get to report properties and set your page size and margins (don't go past less than .5" margins if you intend to print this). This will leave your table at the top and the perfect amount of white space for a full page.
Right above your footer, click insert at the top and draw a small horizontal line. Then preview and see how it looks. If that line is on a page all by itself, move everything up a bit. When it shows correct, paint that line white and nobody will be the wiser.
You can repeat this between each table to ensure the white space has a buffer. The tables will eat the white space but if they go to the very end of the page, you will get a blank page in between unfortunately.
That is my ghetto solution to your problem, sir. Hope it helps.
It sounds like you have a table footer but what you need is a page footer. If you click near the bottom left edge of the page, you may already see a footer there that you can edit. If not:
To add a page header or footer
Open a report.
2.On the design surface, right-click the report, point
to Insert, and then click Header or Footer.
To configure a page header or footer
1. On the design surface, right-click the page header or footer.
2. Point to Insert, and then click one of the following items to add it to the header or footer area:
Textbox
Line
Rectangle
Image
3. Right-click the page header, and then click Header Properties to add borders, background images, or colors, or to adjust the width of the header. Then click OK.
4. Right-click the page footer, and then click Footer Properties to add borders, background images, or colors, or to adjust the width of the footer. Then click OK.
I just came across this problem myself.
From all I can sort out, you cannot have the "Page Number" Global variable appear at the bottom of a report when in "Interactive View" and on a page that is not fully filled with records* (ie. when viewing the report in web/ReportViewer/SSRS URL-Access format).
You can however, ensure that Page Number displays at the bottom of the page when printed or in any export format by creating sufficient space in the "body" of the report in Design View. Specifically, make the body height great enough to ensure that the Page Number is at the bottom (if printing on 8.5" x 11" paper, make the body 8.5").
I achieved this in Visual Studio 2015/SSRS 2016. I am not sure how this is done in Report Building wizard as I do not use that tool. 'Hope this helps somebody.
*in this case, Page Number displays immediately after the last visible record. If anyone knows a way around the seeming Interactive View limitation described, please do share.
Can anyone tell me how to show SSRS group header and footer in SSRS 2008R2? The idea is to have an approach like in Crystal Reports, where we can add a group header/footer and do our own design in that section on every page based on page break functionality.
Does anyone know an approach for this in SSRS? I should be able to show my own design/controls/dataset fields group header area, and be able to see it on every page based on the page break by group. Would also appreciate if you can share any video or tutorial related to the approach.
Below is my scenario and the issues:
First off, you can't really do much in Page Header and Footer in SSRS 2008, this will not be flexible enough for these requirements.
Probably the best workaround then to create multiple sections is to split the main report into several subreports. Each subreport can have it's own "starting area" with images, textboxes, aggregate info: whatever you'd like in your "header". In the main report you could set up page breaks to make sure each "section" (subreport) appears on a new page.
One downside to this approach, as mentioned in the first bit of this answer: you can't repeat the header on each page, because Page Header and Footer are ignored for subreports.
I am using SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 (though this seems to be an issue for me in 2005 also). I have a report that has one page per customer (i.e. paged on customerId). The odd thing I'm seeing is that the first report (i.e. first page of the report) has a bit of extra white space at the top than the other pages. In general this seems to occur when you have a title for the report and paging (so that the first page has the title, but each successive page does not). The report I'm dealing with does not have a title like that, but still has this extra white space.
What I'm wondering is how do I prevent that extra white space on this first page of the report. How do I make each page of the report identical?
I do not have a header or footer applied to the report either.
I've just found the problem i had with extra space on first page.
In my case, the report has a header (with a textbox inside) and in the body a table.
The problem was that on first page (printed from the app) appeared a little space between the header and the table on the body. Well, apart from that the result was perfect.
But when exporting to Excel, first page only showed header, the rest of the pages looked perfect.
The solution: when you add a table (at least in the body), this table has automatically header and footer. I wasn't using header nor footer so i've removed them (first file and last file of the table) and voilá =-D
that's all.
There are a couple of different causes for extra space at the top of the HTML render of a page in any version of Reporting Services. There are a couple of tricks to working around this depending upon the cause of the problem:
Move the title from the Header to the Body of the report. If the title is a label, this doesn't always help.
If you are using a table, then add a separate row to the header of the table. This seems to work very well, particularly when you render to Excel. However, not all report requirements can support this as a solution.
In SSRS 2000/2005, if you are using a container such as a rectangle or group, then the odds that you will having a spacing issue increase. If you can move the title out of the container, then this can help reduce the likelihood of a problem. I haven't tried using the Tablix grouping controls in SSRS 2008, so I can't tell if this will work in SSRS 2008.
If you keep the header and footer objects on even you aren't adding any labels to the regions, then these can lead to extra spaces on the first page.
It is difficult to give you better advice without reproducing your exact problem. If you want to post the code for a sample RDL file temporarily, then I can try to reproduce the problem in SSRS 2008 on my machine and see if I can provide you with a custom solution to your problem.
I'm using Reporting Services / SSRS 2008. I have a table (tablix) with column headers and a subreport in the last row. How do I get rid of the extra space on the first page? It looks ugly when exported to Excel. I've tried moving the table immediately below the report header and it does not work. It seems to enforce a tiny space between the two.