Using Access 2003. On a subreport I have arranged a row of text boxes that will be populated with dynamic data. (These will appear as column headers on a master report.) Due to report constraints, the text boxes are tall and somewhat thin; some incoming strings will be longer than other strings; strings are expected to wrap when necessary. Presently, each of these text boxes is bottom-aligned.
What I am looking for is a way to force the text in each of these boxes to be bottom-aligned, to grow upward as it were. As we know, Excel natively allows bottom alignment in a cell; I do not see that Access offers a similar capability. Any hints? A VBA technique maybe? Thanks.
TonBill,
You can use VBA to set TopMargin property of each textbox to a certain value; TopMargin will "move" text down towards the bottom. You will have to calculate each TopMargin based on how many characters including spaces fit in one line of each textbox. Not a great solution, but may work.
I don't think there is a configuration option in Access for bottom text alignment.
See this: http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/35318427/how-can-i-bottom-align-te.aspx
Since its a report. Check out the CanGrow property
If you have the text bottom aligned, just set the CanGrow Property for all the textboxes, and the textbox will dynamically grow to fit the text in the report.
Here is some info on the CanGrow property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb242179.aspx
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First, my English is not very good.
Do you know if there is a way to make grow vertically and specific record of a continuous form while keeping the rest of records from growing? For example on reports if I set a textBox "letGrow" property to true, if the text inside that control occupies various lines the control grows, but just on that specific record. I would like similar behavior on forms "normalView".
Thankyou
That is not an option. CanGrow is for reports only.
You can adjust height on the fly, but that will touch all records displayed.
I'm new to both SSRS and development in general, and can't seem to find the answer to my problem. The report itself is simple-- a stored procedure collects responses and I display them using Lookup expressions in textboxes. Some fields are not required, so some of the textboxes are empty in my report. I would like to remove the white space left by the empty textbox.
In retrospect, I wish I had used a table to format the page, but since I have a very large number textboxes with expressions, I can't easily refactor my work. I found solutions for tablixes (Trying to Get Rid of White Space in SSRS Report), but nothing for free-standing text boxes.
Is this possible?
If you right click on the textbox and navigate to 'Textbox Properties...' you can toggle the visibility of the textbox, and if it is hidden you wont see the white box. You could also enter expressions, like the one below for example will hide the textbox if there is no data in it.
=iif(isnothing(reportitems!Textbox1.Value),false,true)
Here I have a manually created table using textboxes inside of a list object:
The problem with this is that if one of the textboxes has too much text only it will grow while the others will remain the same height.
Now the other issue is you can't merge two cells in the same column (vertical merge). Is there a way using a combination of controls that I could replicate what is in the picture such that if the Release Description textbox has too much text in it and it grows the other controls will grow along with it?
Two suggestions:
1) If you want to keep your current workaround, and wish to avoid the growing of your textboxes you can set the CanGrow property to False.
A UI solution for the long text will be using ToolTip: Lets say that your textbox can contain only 60 chars, in the textbox expression use the following:
=iif(Len(Fields!YourField.Value)>60, Left(Fields!YourField.Value,57) + "...",Fields!YourField.Value)
means that only 57 charecters will be displayed in the text box, the full text should be display will hovering the textbox (using tooltip).
2) If you want to merge cells vertically you can do some workarounds.
You can place a table inside another table's cell, that way using several tables you can perform your desired output.
Attaching sample of using table within another table (I use 3 tables):
I'm trying to produce a pay check. I will allow the user to setup the position of the items according to their check style.
From my research, it seems that the position of text boxes in SSRS is static and not dynamic. There is no "expression" option for Top/Left. I thought a way to get around this might be to make the text boxes large and overlapping and then set the padding top/left based on expressions to the positions that user has selected. However, it seems that similar to HTML, the text boxes either float around the higher level text boxes or simply drop out of view.
This would be simple if there were a way to tell SSRS not to be concerned with the order of the text boxes and simply display them overlapping, however I don't feel that there is.
Given that, what other options to I have for dynamically positioning text boxes in an SSRS 2008 report? I'm moving right along with this project but I've hit this stumbling block.
SSRS gives you a lot of options for dynamic formatting but Size and Location are fixed. You cannot change this. Overlapping of textboxes does not work in the soft-break renderers like HTML and Excel but does work in hard-break renderers like PDF or TIFF. Have you tried your padding technique and output the report as PDF?
I'm not sure what are going to do in your report, But in similar cases I usually use Space character to position a text. For instance,
IIf(Len(Fields(YourColumn.valu)) > 10, Fields(YourColumn.valu), " ")
Note that you have to ensure it can implemented in your case or not. I'm not sure that it is helpful but as long as the location and width properties are fix this is the only option
Note 2 : I'm using Unbreakable Space character instead of simple Space so that SSRS render it without any problem
We have a form in MS-Access which can be viewed either in form or datasheet mode.
The form is arranged in such a way that labels aren't required for some of the textboxes.
In datasheet mode however, some kind of column heading is required and the default behaviour which takes the control name (as in txtRetailPrice) is really ugly.
Is there a way to set the datasheet column header text without putting labels on the underlying form. As I've said, the form is nicely laid out and adding labels in there would actually be confusing.
I'm hoping there is a solution preferably which doesn't involve adding redundant labels to the form.
I know this is an old post and your question was already answered, but my answer might be helpful to you.
You didn't mention your version of Access, but in Access 2010 there's a textbox property called Datasheet Caption. When you insert a space as a value for this property, the column header in your datasheet will show up blank. Hope this helps.
Since 'Datasheet Caption' shows up as a Design option, there is a property.
Simply set the textbox property:
tBox.Properties("DataSheetCaption") = "Whatever you want it to say"
Hidden labels seems to me to be the best solution. It will keep your form clean and display the headings you want.