I am trying to create a fixed width flat file import spec in SSIS. When I set up all of the columns with the correct widths and preview them, the first row is correct but all of the other rows are off.
example:
Row 1: Text
Row 2: [space]Text
Row 3: [space][space]Text
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
I have experienced something similar to this whenever I first sat up a fixed width column and did not properly adjust for the data between the end of text (or delimiter) to the next line. The data in this area is usually spacing and the carriage return/line feed. To adjust properly, I created one extra column that handled the data from the end of text (or delimiter) to the next line. This fixed my spacing issue.
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Having a strange issue when in jquery datatables where a column will resize and wrap contence when it contains a url like "http://foo.bar.co.uk?test=true&derp=reallyLongParam12345678901234578" it breaks it onto 2 lines at the ? however when it contains a link like "http%3A%2F%2Fdirectproducts.go2cloud.org%2Faff_c%3Foffer_id%3D149&aff_id=1041&aff_sub=white_bluepreland"
It doesn't know how to split this.
Is there anyway to specify more characters that it can split to the next line with as it is causing my table to be wider than the screen.
Note
The badly formated url has been fixed and is just an example
I want to apply Center & Middle for all cells in this table, no condition need, just all cells in table.
This is what I do for each column:
And this is how preview comes out:
First I thought maybe it's because the data type for DetailSheetNo is CHAR, so its length is fixed, so I cast it to VARCHAR:
CAST(CastPieces.DetailSheetNo AS VARCHAR(50)) AS DetailSheetNo
But it's still not solved the problem.
I wonder what would be the reason.
To sum up the comments:
The problem might appear because the word rendered in the cell has to many char and therefor cannot fit in the cell properly.
Make sure the word doesn't countain a lot of white space at the end. If so, right click on the cell, then "Expression" then write something similar to this:
=RTRIM(Fields!MYFIELD.Value)
I work with ssrs with a dynamic row data in matrix/tablix. There is possibility when I have more than one page (say it two pages) where the data just fill half of the second page and leave a blank space below (half page blank space on the second page). How is the way to fill this blank space with empty rows? (whether rendering empty rows in the tablix, or inserting background image, or anything. I don't have any solution yet as it is dynamic data with many possibilities of the blank space size on the page)
Unfortunately there aren't any settings in the reporter that support this behavior. There are however several workarounds you could use to get the wanted result.
[1]
You could determine the amount of rows that fit on the first page and on the second page, just in case you have items above the
table on the first page. Before you send the datasource to the
reporter count the total rows and check if it exceeds the first page.
Then calculate the number of rows missing to fill an entire second
page (or third/fourth... if you ever get more data). Finally you add
empty rows/objects at the end of your datasource, which will of cource
cause the pages to be filled to the end.
As was pointed out before, this solution is only possible when working
with fixed row heights. If certain columns can have multi-line cells
then these could be checked as well and taken in account when
calculating the number of rows being displayed on the page. This makes
it slightly more complicated but is still a valid solution if you can
predict which columns might be troublesome.
[2]
A second solution would be to hide the table borders and place the table inside a rectangle that spans the maximum size of the
page. The borders of this rectangle can be used to display the table
outer borders and columns can be displayed by adding lines inside the
rectangle. This will cause the columns to fill the last page of the
report automatically. Unfortunately this isn't a solution to display
horizontal grid lines.
[3]
A third approach is adding an extra table directly below your table
with the same size of columns. Using the same method as from the first
solution you could fill the second table to represent the empty rows.
You'll probably have the same issue as with the first solution when
dealing with multi-line rows though.
I believe solution [1] and [3] will offer the most exact solution, if you're willing to do the math. If you don't want any horizontal lines then I suggest using approach [2].
Using an image to overlay the borders is of course another option but then you'll have the same issues when dealing with the multi-line rows. If you plan on working with fixed row heights, where you leave space for multi-line cells then this is becomes a valid approach but so does solutions [1] and [3].
Update:
If you only need the filled pages for printing you could make sure you add enough empty rows to fill at least the entire last page, these may go to a new page (1 new page, not 2... you can use a simple calculated guess for this) and exclude the last page when printing.
I've created a report from a query. I have 2 groups: group on InvoiceNumber and group on feeDescripion.
The items are displayed nicely in the first group but the second group is putting extra padding under of the text boxes: http://prntscr.com/6zust9
I've tried shrinking my text boxes and not allowing them to grow but the phantom spaces keep coming back (grrr) As you can see by the highlighting the text boxes are only 4mm high Access is just chucking an extra 4mm padding between each line any suggestions?
Had a similar problem and found the issue when I copied one of the affected fields into Excel to see what I could see. Turns out the field value had included an Alt-Enter character in the middle of the string (as is common in excel when forcing a new line in a cell). When I deleted the alt-enter, the problem went away.
I need to create three divs, next to each other (attribute float:left).
Then I read the data from database and I need to present this data in three divs, in such a way that I first fill up the first div, line by line and when I reach certain height, I go to the next div and fill it with data, and so on.
This is something like reverse table, that is I first fill the first column in first row then go to second and so on until the end of the row, then I move to the second column of first row
and so on. I hope you get the picture.
Is there a way to achieve this in CSS or in some other way?
This functionality is available in CSS3 using column-count and column-span.
I do not know how to make it efficient, but it should be possible with javascript... you know the line-height, you check the height of first div with all content, then you truncate it to desired size and the rest put to the next div.. repeat.. but this looks odd.. ?
You might be able to do this by requesting the first 30 results in the database in one column, then request the next 30 in the next div, and so on. I can't see it being possible in CSS 2.1 alone.