I'm trying to design a report where images are retrieved and displayed on the page. Essentially, like a picture catalog, where I have a header, some detail lines, and a number of pictures, depending on what is stored in the database.
Perhaps the best way is by a quick example
Christmas Pictures (master row)
Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture N
label 1 label 2 label 3 label N
so from the above, each picture is a separate data row, with an image and its corresponding row.
Does anyone have experience or tips on how to accomplish this?
I presently use SSRS 2008 R2, but am open to an alternative reporting tool if it can do the job.
thanks in advance.
How are the pictures stored? Are they stored in your database?
Like this?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239367.aspx (if not, please explain more)
If they are in a table (myImages), where you have an imageID, imageData, imageDescription, all you have to do is make a dataset that gathers those images and put them in a table...? Group by the imageID. Make two rows, one for the image, one for the heading/caption/whatever, both in the imageID group (which doesn't have to show or be a column, just the field that you're grouping by).
If you need it to go across by 4 pictures each row or something, this link is really good for setting up horizontal tables:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrishays/archive/2004/07/23/horizontaltables.aspx
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I am trying to set up a 3 part check where the header of the report is the check itself, and the next 2 sections are each a table with the detail data. One copy stays here while the other goes with the check as a stub. I want the data to be exactly the same and print on the same page. The problem I am having is that if I print 2 checks the second table does not appear on the first page but shows up on the second page with the second check (2 tables in the bottom of the second page). How do I get the second table to print on the page with the proper check? I have put both into a rectangle in the body but that has not helped.
I also need the second table to be in a specific location on the page so it can't be put into the first table since the number of detail rows may vary.
How do I share the report design when I can't upload files? It's also hard to get a 2 page pdf file into a single snapshot. The image I uploaded is the second page. The second table should be on the first page not the second page.
The other issue with this is that my page header is expecting to find a total of the fields in the table, so if I use 2 subreports and remove the tables it can't calculate the total.
I am still confused as to what to do. The ultimate goal is to have the check print like this (works fine if only printing one check):
Here is a snapshot of what my rdl looks like in report builder:
I want the exact same table repeated on the same page. I have tried putting them both in a rectangle but that didn't work. I have tried making the second table a subreport but that didn't work. I have tried making 2 subreports with each containing a table but that didn't work. The check part of it is in the page header and it uses the sum of the data from the table to get the total check amount.
I finally got it working! Here is what I did.
1 - Created a subreport that holds the copy of the first table
2 - Added 2 rows below the detail group and put it outside of the group
3 - Put the subreport on the second added row
4 - Made the first added row below the detail big enough to force the subreport to be on the page where I want it.
Here is what the rdl looks like in report builder
I have inherited an SSRS report which is basically a single table (tablix), one row of which contains a subtable. When the subtable is less than 10 rows, the report fits on a single page. However, when there are more than 10 rows, the report inserts a page break before the subtable and starts a new page, leaving over half of the first page blank.
What the users would like is for the subtable to split across the page break; that is, have the first 10 rows on page one, then start page 2 with a header row for the subtable and continue it.
Is there a simple way to achieve this or is it a case where the report really needs rewriting from scratch?
FYI, we are using SSRS 2012.
In inner tablix make sure keep together on one page if possible is unchecked.
Other way you can handle is remove the inner tablix and incorporate the same functionality in the main table.
After further attempts, I managed to get the table to split. The problem was that the row did not contain only the tablix, but also had textboxes to either side. It seems these were kept together as a group.
FYI, the more interesting problem was getting the headers onto the 2nd and following pages in the sub-table. This MSDN article explained the use of advanced settings to achieve this.
I have an image stored in my database that is going to dynamically change between pages. However, what seems to be happening is that it takes the first image it runs into, and repeats it across all pages. Has anyone else ran into this?
I have used dynamic images before but haven't had this issue - though my images were not in a database.
What are you using for the Value of the image?
Is your image in a table so it goes through the dataset records? If your image isn't part of a table, it won't know to select different images. For instance, if I was showing a report of employees and had an avatar image of each employee, I would have the database image field as part of the query. The image would be inside the table and reference the image field. The image would change as the employee grouping changed from one person to the next.
If your paging isn't determined by something in your dataset, you'll have to come up with some logic to calculate which picture to show and when - probably using the global page number - Globals!PageNumber. That might be tricky with them in a table though.
I would like to know how to organize my report to be able to display few charts coming from different datasets depending on a specific field for the page.
So I would like to have 5 pages containing each 3 charts from different datasets based on the same parameter.
It is something like the wizzard generates but I am not able to add a chart coming from other datasets and if I create another area with the parameter as header, it is splitted in 5*3 pages.
Any suggestion is welcome, thanks in advance.
Try inserting 5 Rectangle items into your report and add a page break after each one. You can then insert Charts into the Rectangle items, making sure they are sized appropriately. Also make sure the SSRS parameter points to the parameter used in the charts' Datasets.
I was wondering if there was a way to create a directory listing report in ssrs and if so, how would i go about creating it.
I'm mostly familiar with creating tabular and some somewhat complex reports, but nothing like this; so any help would be extremely useful.
Here's a sample of how the report might look.
Thanks!
Addendum: The content on each page needs to be grouped by Department & Sub-Department.
I made a mistake on the sample report; where it says Department Subtitle it should say sub-department.
Here's one way I've seen it done.
For a 3 column look, create 3 tables/list with the same dataset and set visibility for details group to:
=IIF(ROWNUMBER("YourDataSet") mod 3=1,FALSE,TRUE) <--Table1
=IIF(ROWNUMBER("YourDataSet") mod 3=2,FALSE,TRUE) <--Table2
=IIF(ROWNUMBER("YourDataSet") mod 3=0,FALSE,TRUE) <--Table3
I think your problem is an addition to this question here.
I did a simple test that imitates your situation. Here is how to do it:
Set the report to 3 columns via Report properties. Adjusted the width of each column so that they fit in 1 page of paper.
Add a List control to the first column. Put Text Box controls inside with the required data fields. The List control will repeat for each Listing record.
Create groups for Department and Sub-Department via Row Groups pane. Rearrange the groups so that they will appear above the List control.
Right-click on Department group (or Sub-Department group) and add Page Breaks.
Preview (Should get a result pretty close to what you want)