I have a report created in SSRS in client mode, which is run disconnected: I create the data source in code and pass to the report as a DataView. It works ok.
But I need to be able to reference from the project to some objects (variables, whatever) from my application, as follows:
I need some totals that are not calculated based on data in report. e.g. the reports show total sales in a period, with own total, but I need to display a field in report footer - previous month total (actually they are about 10 other "previous" totals).
I need to have some columns show / hide based on some settings in the application (e.g. I have application option : Show Previous month sales)
Any thoughts on how to do this?
Thank you
Q1-> In order to use data in your reports, you need to specify the data inside of a Datasource object. You cannot simply use the variables if that is what your intentions were. So yes, you are doing this the right way. *** Sorry, you could theoretically used Report Parameters for this.
Q2-> This is the real reason to use Report Parameters. You can pass parameters to the report to do exactly this. If the HideColumn parameter (for example) is set to true, you could hide all the columns that need to be hidden.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms251750%28VS.80%29.aspx
For question 1 - the data - the easiest approach would be to create a DataTable in memory and add it as another dataset OR to add fields for your original dataview that contain these values.
Question 2 - To hide or show the columns based on settings make the column visibility an expression based on the value of a parameter, in your code behind set the parameter value to your application setting.
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I'm using MS Report Builder v3.0 to create a report. As part of this report, I have a multi-valued parameter (named #Diagnoses). The labels and some of the values (truncated by the size of the display boxes) of this parameter are shown below:
What I would like to be able to do is display the labels / values the user chooses in a 2-column tablix (I've tried using separate textboxes for the labels / values but the results are mis-aligned).
However, this does not appear to be straightforward. The closest method I've found is this one, which stores the user's choices in an internal parameter in xml format, then queries this parameter to produce a dataset from the xml.
So, I created the xml-producing internal parameter like this:
...and I've created a dataset based on this data, with the following query:
But now when I put these values into a tablix, the labels and values are now on separate rows, like this:
Does anyone have a straightforward way of sorting this out?
Best Wishes
C J
OK - I've solved it (it's not pretty, but it works!)
Basically, the problem comes from having to use the join statement when creating the xml - you can't really put both the label information and the value information on the same row in the xml.
To get round this, you have to use two internal parameters to create two datasets - one for the labels column, one for the values column. The method for creating these is essentially the same as that shown above, except for the values parameter, the expression for the default value is:
...and for the labels parameter, it's this:
(by the way, make sure you set the available values to "None" for internal / hidden parameters - the expressions here are for the default values)
Then, when you create the values dataset, you use the following syntax in its query:
...and similarly for the labels dataset.
Finally, in the report, you create one matrix from each of the two datasets, then put them next to each other, using fixed row heights and setting "can shrink" / "can grow" to false so that they look like they're in the same table:
I hope this helps somebody!
I am generating an SSRS report whose results are displayed like so:
I need to append similar query results (same exact query, one different parameter value) to the right of this data, so that one additional result set of data (from a 2nd query) would look something like this (but with different data, of course - this is just copied-and-pasted to show what's needed):
How can I add multiple of these similar-but-distinct result sets so that they can be read from left to right as shown above?
Solution: COLUMN GROUPING
If I have understood your question correctly, you are expecting to show those 3 columns repeatedly for different set of values. All you need to do is put those 3 columns in a group (Column Group) and Group by on whatever "Field/Parameter" you want to it repeat. Let me know how it goes!!
Based on what is written here, this is how I accomplished this:
I created a new report based on the existing one, and then added a Subreport and then dragged the existing (original) report onto it (I dragged "VariancePricebyProduct_Facelift.rdl" onto the subreport in "VariancePricebyProduct_Facelift_WithSubreports.rdl"). Then I selected the context menu item "Subreport Properties" and added a parameter ("Unit"), providing it with a "hard-coded/baked-in" value ("CHOPHOUSE") different from the one to be provided by the user for the main report.
Then, since I want to keep the same date values from the existing report, I added two more parameters to the subreport and set them to use the same values for the date range as those used there in the main report by selecting the "formula" ("fx") button and 2-clicking the appropriate parameter to be used as the passed-in (tramp) value:
That works. Just to make it plainer, here is how it looks at design time:
The mess at the top is "VariancePricebyProduct_Facelift.rdl"; the bit below is a Textbox/Label for the subreport and then the subreport itself.
And here is how the data looks where the original/base report finishes and the subreport begins:
I have a report that can be VERY expansive - potentially returning hundreds of thousands of rows and taking 15+ minutes to render. The users have four inputs including two dates indicating the report range and two filters that default to (All). What I'd like to do is throw up a warning to the user if they try to run the report without selecting a single entity from either of the two filters, or if the user attempts to bring up more than one week's worth of data at a time.
Is there any kind of checking I can do at runtime in the report (short of coding it in the procedure) to warn the user that they are about to get more data than they can handle?
I would add a Hidden Parameter e.g. Accept_Run_Time_Warnings, with Static values e.g. Yes or No. The Default value would be set by an expression, based on the prior Parameters and your criteria e.g. entities selected, date ranges etc. If those conditions are met, Default = No, otherwise Default = Yes.
Then I would add a textbox to the top of the report body with the warning text to show the users, finishing with something like "Click here to continue with these parameters". This textbox would be hidden if Accept_Run_Time_Warnings = Yes. This textbox would have an Action to run the same report, passing the same paramters, but with the Accept_Run_Time_Warnings = Yes.
I would hide all other report body tables charts etc if Accept_Run_Time_Warnings = No.
I would edit the parameters for the main datasets to test Accept_Run_Time_Warnings - if No then they can pass non-existent values (to speed the dataset execution), e.g.
=Iif ( Parameters!Accept_Run_Time_Warnings.Value = "No" , "DUMMMY" , Parameters!Customer.Value)
Thanks for the ideas. We decided instead to break the report into two reports and removed the "All" option from either one of the two selection drop-downs on each report. The titles on the individual reports give a clue to the user about which one to use and clue them into the need for a selection.
I have a main report with several sub reports, each of these with slightly different queries and different ways to show the data.
So, in my situation, I have a textbox that needs to compile data from a few different reports with varying criteria. E.G.
MainReportTextbox =(Sum(columnA, "Main Dataset"))-(SubReportTextBox))
OR
MainReportTextbox =(Sum(columnA, "Main Dataset"))-(subReportVariable))
I saw a few suggested solutions, such as this. Which uses the =[Reports]!MainReport!SubReport!Textbox scheme. The problem is that [Reports] is not a recognized identifier.
I did consider to scrap sub reports and just have everything run on the same main report, but we lose the functionality of being able to use the reports individually, without maintaining the same thing in two places.
So I guess my question is, can you pull variables or element(particularly textboxes in a table) values from sub reports?
If the answer is simply no, please show me some information about why it is no or how it is no from MSDN or a valid source and give some valid counter suggestions.
The links in the question and comments sometimes refer to non-SSRS reports: the syntax [subreport].[Report]![MyFieldName] or [Reports]![YourReportName]![YourSubReportName]![TheValueFromTheSubReportYouWantToReference] are not used in SSRS. It is, however, used in designing MS Access reports, as ojeffrey points out in the discussion you link to.
There is no common method to access data in a subreport. The SSRS model is that parent report data is processed, subreport data is processed, the subreports are rendered, results go back to the parent, then parent is rendered, including the subreport as appropriate. The only data passed between the two is parameters are passed into the the subreport, and rendered output is passed back to the parent. You'll see the that data passed in from the parent must be as report parameters here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms160348(v=sql.100).aspx
All parameters that are required by the subreport must be included in
the Parameters list. If a required parameter is missing, the subreport
is not displayed correctly in the main report.
For citing authoritative sources:
This discussion sums it up:
No, referring to a report item in a subreport is not allowed.
But that is a bit old, there is also this more recent discussion of work-arounds, provided by Microsoft employee and a MS BI MVP:
You are going to need to replace the subreport item with a data region
like list, table, or matrix to be able to get the proper reference you
are looking for.
[Skipping down to another post]...
Now, it seems you want to calculate the
difference between main report and the subreport. Also, because they
have the different data source, so you cannot use nest
table/matrix/list, right? If so, one workaround I can think of is
pass parameter to the sub report and calculate the total/subtotal in
sub report. I mean, create several hidden/ internal parameters, pass
the values from main report to sub report through parameters and then
calculate the total/subtotal there.
Jeroen's answer to the linked question point towards the direction I would go: use a "Shared Dataset" and enable caching if the dataset is slow to execute. The same dataset execution can then be used for the parent and subreports. This can change the use of parameters: they usually get moved from the SQL query to the filter of the Dataset in the report.
But with the Lookup function introduced in SSRS 2008R2, you can get very flexible with report level joins between datasets.
The details of how I'd design this depend a lot on how much other data needs to get passed back and forth, and how neatly the queries for the reports can be knit together.
Create variable in main report and update it in sub report so you can get value back to main report
ex:
Create formula in main report with name {#Total} place flowing in it
WhilePrintingRecords;
shared Numbervar myTotal := 0;
NOTE : placing ; will not print value and without ; will print value in above example value will not be printed if you want to print value of formula just remove ; from second line ex
WhilePrintingRecords;
shared Numbervar myTotal := 0
now place {#Total} in report header of your main report
now create second formula in sub report where you want to add subtotal to main report formula with name {#addTotal} place following lines in it
WhilePrintingRecords;
shared Numbervar myTotal;
myTotal := myTotal + 200; //or any formula or field
add this formula to place in sub report where you want to add value to total
now create formula in main report to show grand total with name {#showTotal} and place following lines in it
WhilePrintingRecords;
shared Numbervar myTotal;
myTotal
place {#showTotal} in your main report where you want to show this value in report but remember one thing you should place this formula after sub-report.
NOTE : to assign value to variable use := operator
Is it possible to load a data region (matrix) only on request. I have a screen with a few fields and a 13 week revenue tablix that can take 10 or more seconds to load. I'd like the tablix data region to only load when the user needs to see that information. My understanding of how SSRS works is that this is not possible, but I'd like to confirm. Are there any workarounds?
Sql Server Reporting Services 2008 R2
You can set the visibility of the Matrix on the value of a paramater .
For example ,you can create a new paramter ShowParamter.
Lets say your Matrix's Id is matrix1, then under visibility set the hidden property of matrix1 as
IIF(Paramaters!ShowParamter="True", false,true)
If the value of the paramater is true then the matrix should be seen otherwise hidden.