I have a field on the footer that may contain more text the the textbox would support. If it does, I need the report to print another page, even if it's completely empty, containing only the footer field.
Basically, if a condition is true, I want the report to print a new page, displaying my footer in it, even if there's nothing else to be printed.
How can I achieve this, preferably with field expressions?
And if you have a solution that's not a field expression (external code for example), could you also point me to the basics of it?
On any block you have the property PageBreak, you can choose begin, end or none. By choosing end, a page break will be insered after the block.
=iif(Globals!PageNumber Mod 2,True,False) this helped me to show (visibility) a text box on even pages only from my footer
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I'm working on a "contract format-like" rdlc report, which will have four tablix with variable numbers of rows. This report also have a fixed "last page" that is set to do a page break "always".
What I want to achieve is to "span" some element to gave the impression that the remaining white space between penultimate/before last and last page won't be written/added with any more info in the future (as we use to do by handwriting/completing, in the past). The ideal object could be a transversal line (I think that's not possible in my research). Also I have found some workarounds that take in count the "number of rows" of each tablix and do and approximation height, then add the "needed" rows to the end of the last tablix but that's not quite the solution I'm looking for.
Please look the attached image for a better idea of the line desired location:
Explanation-Layout-And-Variable-Height-Meaning
I hope you can advise with your experience on this (even if not the solution some idea of how to achieve it).
Thanks in advance!
Unless I'm missing something....
If you wan to simply add a page break and then a 'blank' page...
Just add a rectangle under your last tablix.
Make it short vertically, (the width does not really matter as long as it's no wider than you tablix). Move it so it's close to the last tablix (say 5pt below)
Right-click the rectable and choose properties. Now set the properties of the rectangle to "Add a page break before"
This will force a page break after the last tablix and then push the empty rectangle onto the next page giving the impression that it is blank.
Here is the similar imageI'm trying to create an SSRS report using SSRS 2008 R2.
I have a requirement to show different headers in different pages based on page number. For example, I need two textboxes to be shown in all the pages except page-1. So I put them in a rectangle inside report header and set the visibility(expression) based on pagenumber.
This works fine but it leaves a lot of white space in the first page header as it is hidden. How can I get rid of the whitespaces?
I tried putting those 2 textboxes out of the header, but I'm unable to hide them based on pagenumber, as the pagenumber global variable can be accessed only in header and footer but not from the body.
Is there any other approach to hide these textboxes on first page and show on all other pages?
Thanks in advance.
Update: added similar image
You can't recover the space in the header but you can not use it in the first place and let the text box grow when necessary. The bad part is that when it is exported to Excel, all the text will be in one cell.
Since your text is different sizes, you'll need to use HTML formatting.
In your regular header, add the page formula you are using with the TRUE part containing the text needed for your additional info and the FALSE part with an empty string - "". Use the <br> tag for a page break and the <font> tag to set the size.
="<b>This is My Page Header</b>" & IIF(Globals!PageNumber > 1, "<br><font size = '2'>Text Box 1" & "<br>" & "TextBox 2" & "<font>", "")
You'll need to set the Placeholder properties to Interpret HTML tags.
I am designing a report using SSRS 2008 R2 where there can be 2-3 sub headers. Now the headers are passed as parameters showing different options such as date range etc.Now I have used three TextBoxes for the three headers but the problem is if I pass 2 headers and even if the third TextBox is hidden it takes up space. I would have used a tablix had the headers appeared in a body section but It seems I cannot use a tablix in the header section.
I hope I was able to make myself clear. Does anyone have any answers regarding this.
Thanks.
If I may make a suggestion, that I've used before, use placeholders. So, what you do is go into the box that is right before the optional text box. Then, right click. You should see an option at the bottom for Create Placeholder. Click that and it will ask you to create an expression. Do an IIF check on your variable.
Example: IIF(MyVar = 1, vbcrlf + "My Header", "")
What this will do is check to see if MyVar = 1. If it does, then it appends onto your text box a new line with the text "My Header". Otherwise, it will take up no space.
Please let me know if this helps and good luck with your project.
You have to 'play' with 3 properties of your TextBoxes.
CanGrow: True
CanShrink: True
Hidden: =IIf(Parameters!YourParameter.Value = "", True, False)
To save space, you can also set a minimum Height for your TextBoxes and put them attached to each other.
you have to change the visiblity:
1)select textbox
2)right click on text box.
3) go to Text Box Properties
4)visiblity tab>click on "fx" for expression and write following code.
use if condition:
=IIF(Cstr(Header.value))="",TRUE,FALSE)
i hope it will solve ur issue.
The Particulars:
I have a report that displays information about invoices. There is a page break between multiple invoices (each invoice gets its own page). What I want in the report header is the result of this expression (ex. "June, 2009"):
=MonthName(Month(ReportItems!textbox1.Value)) & ", " & cstr(Year(ReportItems!textbox1.Value))
But I get this exception (textbox2 is in the header):
Error 1 [rsMultiReportItemsInPageSectionExpression]
The Value expression for the textbox
‘textbox2’ refers to more than one
report item. An expression in a page
header or footer can refer to only one
report item.
First of all... Why would that even matter?! Second of all... How can I work around this strange restriction?
The Big Picture:
The reason I'm grabbing the text from another textbox is to work around the restriction that you can't use data fields in a header or footer. So there's a hidden column that shows the invoice date next to every transaction. Then the table header has the expression:
=First(Fields!InvoiceDate.Value, "table1_Group1")
This seems ridiculous and I hope I'm just doing something wrong. Yes I realize I could simply have a "month" and "year" text box in the header but that pushes the complexity way too high for the simple requirement of showing an invoice date in the header of a report.
One wild guess would be that textbox1 exists for every page of your report. So if you have two invoices, you'll have two pages and thus 2 x textbox1, so SSRS does not know which one to refer to.
You might try to play with report parameters as described here. If nothing else helps, I guess you'll have to put the invoice ID into the report body.
I came back to this issue and found a way around the buggy behavior in SSRS.
All formatting can be done inside the column header instead of up in the page header. The text box in the page header simply grabs the already formatted (and complete) text from the column header all at once. No more multiple references.
This is a hackish workaround for a strange limitation which is the result of a hackish workaround for another strange limitation. But it works.
How do I get rid of the page breaks in an SSRS report, making the report display in a single page?
Open the report's .rdl file in a text editor and locate the <Page></Page> section.
In that section, insert the following:
<InteractiveHeight>0in</InteractiveHeight>
<InteractiveWidth>8.5in</InteractiveWidth>
In SSRS, an interactive height of 0 means the report has an infinite length and therefore, it will exist on a single page.
Make sure you do not have one of the properties set to true on one of your report items for PageBreakAtEnd or PageBreakAtStart. Also, make sure you keep the width of your report less than the width of your actual paper, keeping in mind extra space for the page margins (Report > Report Properties > Layout)
And according to Microsoft:
"Although it is not recommended, you can disable soft page breaks by setting InteractiveHeight to 0." I think this only works for HTML rendering though, I have not used it myself.
I'm not sure if there is a scale of any kind where no matter how big your report is it still prints on one page if that is what you are looking for.
Right Click anywhere in Body and select Properties.
select Reports From the DropDown. (When you select an element in report, the dropdown changes to TextBox/Header or the item you select)
In Report properties, Expand InteractiveSize Attribute.
Set Height -> 0in
If you're trying to display report data in one page, it is simple to do in SSRS. All you have to do is select an entire table and then go to the property pane. Update KeepTogather = True.
You can set the report's InteractiveHeight to 0 to disable paging.
Go to report properties -> Page -> InteractiveSize -> Height. Set this value to 0in.
Here is the similar question.
Dustin Brooks wrote:
Also, make sure you keep the width of your report less than the width of your actual paper, keeping in mind extra space for the page margins (Report > Report Properties > Layout)
Also be extra careful about this when working with subreports. I've lost count of the times I ended up with extra blank pages when I've accidently made a subreport wider than the main report.
When creating reports for the web, I would disable page breaks by setting the InteractiveSize to something really crazy, like 1000x1000". (I just checked, and setting it to 0x0" as Dustin Brooks mentioned in his answer has the same effect.)
I left the PageSize property at 8.5x11" and the reports printed across multiple pages normally.