I have a problem with page breaks in an SSRS report, and I'm by no means an expert. This is in the XML mark up to provide a page break:
<TableGroups>
<TableGroup>
<Grouping Name="AdjustmentPageBreakGroup">
<PageBreakAtEnd>true</PageBreakAtEnd>
<GroupExpressions>
<GroupExpression>=CInt(Ceiling(RowNumber(Nothing)/28))</GroupExpression>
</GroupExpressions>
</Grouping>
</TableGroup>
</TableGroups>
The page break appears on different lines on the print and screen version of the report:
Print:
Screen:
As you can see, the print version has a break in the middle of the "Transfer IN" cell, with "Value" on the next page after the break. From what I can tell from the XML, it's got a hardcoded page break at row 28, and if I change this number it fixes the print version and breaks the screen version. Is there any way to specify this line break differently for print and screen?
The solution to this issue is the rectangle component. Based on your image, I am assuming that your report has a table that is grouped on location. For each location you are reporting on Number and Value. Column 1 has the location name, Column 2 is the label and Column 3 is the field values.
Create a new table (TABLE A). Set the table to group on Location. In the group footer, add a rectangle (RECTANGLE). Set the Keep Contents Together property of the rectangle to TRUE.
Add a table to the area of the rectangle (TABLE B). Do not add a grouping to TABLE B. Add to the details row of this table Column 1, Column 2, and Column 3 formatted as it is in the existing report.
When the report renders, each group will be kept together and the rectangle will force page breaks between the groupings.
The solution above works for SSRS 2008. The solution below is similar and works for SSRS 2005.
Create a new table (TABLE A). Set the table to group on Location. In the group header or footer add a table (TABLE B). Do not add a grouping to TABLE B. Add to the details row of this table Column 1, Column 2, and Column 3 formatted as it is in the existing report. On the TABLE B use the Fir table on one page if possible option.
You can solve this problem by using few small steps:
1-Go to report properties and set paper size to custom. The width and length is to be as such, that it will show all column :
2- Then set the Body Property like same :
Now View the report and download in any PDF/Any format it will not break:
Make sure the interactive size and the page size are the same. You also have to set the margins so that the print version prints properly.
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Why is it that a control that appears in the property list in a BIDS project is not represented in the corresponding .rdl file?
Let me step back a bit; I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to add items to an existing report, either via the XML (.rdl viewed as code) or on the design surface. I can click on a rectangle on the design surface and see a column row above it:
And if I click on the "pipe"-separated segements on that column heading row, I see "MatrixColumn4", "MatrixColumn3", "MatrixColumn2", and "MatrixColumn1" in the designer; for example, here's MatrixColumn3:
However, only one of these columns appears at a time in the Property list - if I select MatrixColumn3 on the design surface, MatrixColumn1, MatrixColumn2, and MatrixColumn4 are not there. The same holds true for selecting any of the others - it turns up temporarily in the Properties list but "hides" all the others:
Stranger yet, when I search the .rdl file (viewed as XML) for "MatrixColumn1" (or "2" or "3" or "4") they do not exist there. In fact, the only reference to "MatrixColumn" in the entire file is this:
<Matrix Name="matrix1">
<MatrixColumns>
<MatrixColumn>
<Width>1.67609in</Width>
</MatrixColumn>
</MatrixColumns>
. . .
This seems exceedingly bizarre - shouldn't there be four sets of <MatrixColumn></MatrixColumn> there?
I want to add another column heading, with a Textbox-as-label and a Textbox below that to display dynamic content, but how can I do it without adding another column heading?, or at least making room for this new column?
I can increase the width of the matrix ("matrix1") by dragging it or by increasing its Size.Width value, but its existing contents expand with it, giving me no room to add TextBoxes inside of it.
Maybe I'm approaching SSRS from a completely wrong mental angle, as I don't see much of a connection between what the report generates and what I see on the design surface and in the XML.
To add another column to a matrix right click the column header and Select Insert column. Then choose either inside group (left or right), or outside group (left or right).
A column created inside the group will repeat for every item in the column group
A column created outside the group will only appear the once to the left or right of the grouped columns.
Are you sure you are referring to a matrix (dynamic columns and rows) and not a tablix (dynamic number of rows only)?
The process for tablixes is the same as for matrixes as described above, just without the inside/outside group option.
Either method described above will include a new column with a single text box to label the column with, and another text box underneath to put the detail in.
You can also do this process by dragging a field from your dataset in the Report Data panel to the appropriate location in your existing table.
Please let me know if this helps, or if I've misunderstood your question and you require a different solution.
I created a simple SSRS 2005 report. It is a table with 2 columns. When I preview the report it looks great. I put it on the Report Server (Report Manager) and when it is displayed the width of the columns of the table are only as wide as the widest value. I want the column widths to be a fixed width. I also want the rows to have alternating colors. On the Report Server, only the 2nd column has the coloring.
I have tried setting the table column attribute 'CanGrow' to true. But the table is only as wide as the data. The column widths are set to 3.09167in and 3.55.
It seems that I cannot widen the table columns from their original widths.
If I add padding to the left and right margins the column data is wider but the row coloring is still incorrect.
Has anybody seen this problem before?
Update
Below are screen shots of what the report looks like when previewed in VS2005 and when it is displayed on the Report Server.
In Visual Studio it looks like this (which is what I want it to look like.)
This is what it looks like on the Report Manager:
This is the code that I use to alternate the row color on both columns but only the second one displays the green color:
= IIf(RowNumber(Nothing) Mod 2 = 0, "#BCDCBC", "Transparent")
If I add a third column, the alternating color works for the third column also but not for the first column.
In case anybody else has this problem this is how I worked around it...
To solve the report width problem I put the table inside a rectangle and made the rectangle the width I wanted the table to be and that was corrected.
I could not figure out why the alternating row color code would not work for the first column but for all others. So, I added a 'hack'. I added an additional column to be the first column with no heading and no data. Made it very small in width (0.03) so that is not too noticeable. That allowed the other columns to be correctly colored and the first one is not.
I need to generate SSRS report as shown in the above picture (the top portion of the image got cut off but it has the header as shown below which should appear on only at top of each page).
HEADER is as below
Bin ItemNr Description QtyOnHand
My data output is as below which I need to use to generate report format as shown above.
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Issues I am facing
I used 2 tablix. The first tablix has groupby on ItemNr and I show only if the record has binPriority equal to 0. I then added another tablix within first tablix to findout if the itemNumber count is >1 (else I hide this tablix). Here I printed rows where binPriority is <> 0.
I get the data output somewhat similar to what I wanted but the header row appears for every item (where binPrority is 0). I want it to appear only per page. So what I did was I set the row header within first tablix as invisible and added the textboxes within the page header. I guess this is not the way to do it but this is where I am so far).
Also when I export to PDF, I see blank lines between each item (See image below). To me this lines looks like the 2nd tablix which is hidden. The report format/display is perfect when I view it on the screen.
The report is set to print in landscape and all the margins are 0.
Please suggest how to achieve the above report format.
Update 1 : I have modified the question by removing some of the images that had live data.
I am marking this question as answered.
I modified the report by removing the 2nd tablix and using Grouping.
I have a report where I've specified the Columns property to 3.
I want the data I have from a single query to spread across these columns.
When I print the report however, I just get a single column that spans across multiple pages till the rows run out of data.
How do I tell rs that I want the data to wrap into the next two columns?
UPDATE: Ok, found a link on technet to give me a better explanation of multicolumns (e.g. newsletter style):
Multicolumn, newsletter-style reports
display report data down multiple
adjacent columns. A newsletter-style
layout applies to the entire report.
When you define more than one column
in a report, Report Designer
calculates the width of the columns in
the report, the width of the report,
and the width of the space between
columns based on the number of
columns. It then displays a reduced
design surface so that you can place
report items on the report that will
fit within the column. Note that the
layout of the entire report must be
placed on the reduced design surface.
Additional columns are displayed so
that you can verify that the number of
columns you defined will fit the page
size dimension. You can adjust page
size, padding, and margins to fit more
columns on the page.
Only PDF and Image renderers support
newsletter-style reports.
I still haven't quite figured out how to make the column wrap...but I'll look into it further on Monday.
I addressed my issue by:
Putting 3 Tablix in my SubReport
Adding a Count Aggregate in my SQL results
Doing % calculations in the Tablix filters
For example, Tablix one has a filter formula like this:
=IIF(Fields!MaxRowNumber.Value <= 10, 10, Fields!MaxRowNumber.Value * .4)
So, if only ten rows are returned, display those ten rows in column 1. If more than ten rows appear, then put 40% of the results in Tablix 1.
I do similar calculations for Tablix 2 and 3 to display the 30% in each Tablix respectively.
Feels like a bit of a hack...but it works.
So one approach is to use multiple tablix with a filter that checks RowNumber and accordingly displays particular records in each table.
The other way is called Newsletter-style report (link). This formatting is retained only when report is exported as PDF or Image. It can be previewed only when you select 'Print Layout' on the Preview tab in Visual Studio. Here is an example:
Create a new report with the foll. dataset: SELECT ID,NAME FROM TABLENAME
Add a new table to the report and select the ID and Name as columns
Click on the tablix and press F4 to edit the tablix properties. In the properties window, change the Size - set the width to 2in
Click on the report area outside the report page boundary and press F4 to edit the report properties. In the properties window, change the Column value to 3, and column spacing value to 0.1
On the report scroll to the right hand side, you will notice that there are 2 new columns (so totally 3 columns on the report - because you selected 3 in step 4 above). Now click on the margin at the start of the column 2 and pull it further to the left to bring it as close to the column 1. This is only to reduce the need for huge page size.
Right click on the report area outside the report page boundary and select Report Properties. Change the Page Size - Set the width to 10in
Preview the report. Now select the 'Print Layout' tab to see the result. This formatting is retained only when report is exported as PDF or Image.
As noted in points 5 and 6 - since the report body flows into multiple columns, you must ensure that the page size is at-least equal to -> ([Original report body size times the number of columns] + all the column spacing values). Otherwise it will look messy.
I have a simple table in SSRS which I am using to create a CSV report.
The output looks like:
a,b,c
1,2,3
4,5,6
where a,b,c are the column headers.
Now my client requires a footer row saying how many records are in the file.
However if I add a row to my table with the required fields in, the output becomes:
a,b,c,records
1,2,3,2
4,5,6,2
instead of:
a,b,c
1,2,3
4,5,6
records,2
Does anyone know how I can achieve the desired effect?
In SSRS 2005, the table control has, by default, three rows. The top one is for a header, the bottom one is for footer, and the middle one is for data. Looking at your example, it appears you dragged the records value into a new column in the middle row, and it automatically added a header for you.
Instead, drag it into the bottom row. You can type "records" into the leftmost column of the footer, and whatever data set field you have for the records count into the 2nd column.
In SSRS 2008, you have the Tablix control. It defaults to a Header row and a Data row. Right-click on the data row, and select Insert Row -> Outside Group - Below. Then you have a footer row that you can add to the same way was in SSRS 2005.
The effect you're trying to achieve is not possible but you can get rid of that column.
Select the row you use as Footer, actually the textbox associated and set the DataElementOutput for that textbox to NoOutput. That row will not be exported in CSV.
This applies to any textboxes in a report.
In SSRS 2008 , Click on the Report Tab on the top menu . Then select "Add Page Footer"