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.
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I found a similar question on the link: rdlc-report-hidden-charts-creates-empty-pages, but it didn't helped.
I have two sections that needed to be hidden when data is not present. however after adding a new section in the accident info section I am getting the error. My page size is 8.27in, 11.69in. Interactive size is 8in, 11in.
On that section previous height was 7.8 inch now its increased to 8 inch. After subtracting header and footer 8.4 inch space is available for the page. if margin is considered only 0.1 inch margin is there for all sides. ConsumeContainerWhitespace is also true.
For some data where these two rectangles are not visible an empty page is generated. This should not be the case as after hiding them from expression widget moves up automatically. On some sections property "PageBreak" is set to BreakLocation=Start. It is because some sections needs to be saved in a new page.
page before break
Page after break
here is the sample code for RDLC
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Report xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition" xmlns:rd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner">
<ConsumeContainerWhitespace>true</ConsumeContainerWhitespace>
<rd:ReportUnitType>Inch</rd:ReportUnitType>
<rd:ReportID>38832df4-093b-4332-b811-4e31095617ec</rd:ReportID>
</Report>
Sorry I am unable to load my full RDLC as the body limit is exceeded.
I am using reporting version 8.
I think it may work if you move the content of the textbox inside a Tablix.
Then use Row Visibility to hide / show that row instead of the textbox itself.
If your design is more complex, like multiple combination of hide / show textbox.
You will need to use the Show or hide based on an expression function to check all textboxes' visibilities.
Firstly I would like to thank #HardcoreGamer for support. In this case I tried with only Tablix widget with row visibility and widget visibility based on expression. None of the approach worked. I had got one concept wrong that on hiding the widget or Tablix report takes no space. The report takes space which is between the widgets.
I also tried with two different schema as well i.e. RDL 2008 and 2016 but same thing happened on both.
I posted similar question on Microsoft form as well : RDLC Report Hidden rectangles Creates Empty Pages
What finally worked is that I reduced the rectangle of previous page by a margin of 1 inch excluding padding, page margin and footer for A4 size page. The space between the widgets was 0.5 inch. for hiding two widgets additional space of 1 inch is required, so that a new page doesn't gets generated.
Final image with changes
I still have to find a way out if data increases then the new page dosent get generated.
I'm trying to show the tables' headers on every new page and it is working in the usual preview mode in reporting services but it isn't working when showing the report in print layout mode. It shows the headers on some of the pages but only when my parent group is at the top of the page which it rarely is cause of the other "child-tables" data that shows after.
I've been following some other SO-posts where they suggest going in to advanced mode by the column group, choose the static field belonging to the table headers, putting "KeepWithGroup"-property to AFTER and the "RepearOnNewPage"-property to TRUE and ofcourse in the tablix properties check the "Repeat header columns on each page"-box.
While doing everything that people are suggesting in other SO-posts I just can't get it to work.
The image below shows what the table looks like, where the yellow marked area is the header and the red is the "child-table" I put in after merging that row. Between the marked rows is the parent table which the child table is ordered by.
The layout of the table in the report.
Please help me, this is such an annoying problem!
EDIT ---
Okay, so I get that the headers follow the group and that the "KeepWithGroup" = After shows the headers only when the group starts at the top of the page.
Is there any workaround to make the header showing on every page without making it a page header?
Please follow all the other advice readily available on this topic:
RepeatOnNewPage property to **True**.
KeepWithGroup property to **After**.
But then, make sure your lowest level Group has the KeepTogether property set to True.
Otherwise, you'll just be hoping your data breaks on the page for the header to repeat.
After much pain with this exact issue, even setting RepeatOnNewPage to true and KeepWithGroup property to After...ultimately the fix was adjusting the top and bottom margins of the report.
The weird part is that the headers correctly repeat in the report preview, but not after clicking the print layout button.
changing the top and bottom margin from 0.25 to 1 fixes the repeating header issue, but then adds some white space. I'm still trying to figure out the causal relationship between margin and why it breaks the header repeating...but it does fix the problem for some reason.
I have been trying to resolve this simple issue for a few hours with no joy.
I have two tables within my SSRS 2008 report which are bound to different datasets and I need to show or hide the appropriate table based on a passed in parameter. This I have done with the hidden property of the table which works as expected. The problem I have is that when hiding the top item and showing the item beneath it I get the white space from the hidden item.
Trivial example
I created two tables and bound them to the same datasource laying them vertically.
I then set the hidden property of the top table to true and previewed the report.
You can see that the first grid is hidden but the white space remains. From my investigations I did see the ConsumeContainerWhitespace property used for this but in my case it did not clear up the white space.
Question
Is there a method of removing the white space for these hidden elements?
I would recommend two solutions depending on whether the datasets are the same.
1: If they share a common dataset then I would nestle them in another table that has 1 column, and 2 rows, and then change the row visibility depending on the parameters.
2: If the datasets are different, I would make each table a sub-report and then change the visibility that way.
Just another workaround caused by SSRS quirks!
This can be fixed by ensuring that the reports ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace property is set to true.
This can be found in the report properties. Click the yellow surround for the report, press F4 to open the Properties pane, and you can find ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace under there.
See also ConsumeContainerWhitespace property to remove blank space in SSRS 2008 report
The behavior can be controlled by following method
1) Right click on the top left box on the tablix and click on 'Tablix Properties' to open the properties for the tablix
2) Click on the "Visibilty" tab on the left hand side of the wizard
3) Click on the "Show or hide based on an expression", click on the Fx and paste the following formula
=IIF(RowNumber("DatasetName")=0,TRUE,FALSE)
4) Make sure to replace the "DatasetName" with the your dataset name (the one that is related to the tablix)
5) Also make sure that the ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace property is set to "True"
ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace property is a report level property and can be changed from properties window for the report. (click on the report outside of the design area)
This worked for me very well.
Select the object, go to properties and set the size to 0,0
Wired. Only contained them in another tablix or subreport then it works in hide them with no white space.
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 am getting a blank page, at the end of my report in SSRS 2005.
I have a header logo and footer date values, and I have set the both to PrintOnLastPage = False, but I am still getting a blank last page.
Any ideas how to eliminate it? Thanks!
This solution applies for SSRS 2008 R2. I am not sure about earlier versions.
On Report Properties page, under category Other, set ConsumeContainerWhitespace to True.
Other suggestions still apply: Make sure your Paper Size can contain Report Width and Margins. Remove any white space you may have on your Report.
Good luck.
Shorten the width of the report, dragging the right vertical side to the left.
Setting ConsumeContainerWhitespace works, but may cause a catastrophic increase in report generation time, especially for very large reports.
An alternative solution is as follows and involves keeping track for yourself which record is the last record in your dataset.
SQL - Track Row Number vs. Total Rows
You may use a technique such as the above to track Current Row # vs. Total Rows, just make sure that your "Order By" mechanism matches that of your main select statement.
Add an end-of-record page-break to all but the last record
Add a vertically-tiny rectangle to the end of your report body
Rectangle Properties -> PageBreak -> BreakLocation -> End
Now, we want this rectangle to be visible when we desire a page break, and we want it to be hidden when we do not want a page break.
Thus, in the Rectanble Properties (right click) -> Visibility -> Show or hide based on an expression -> Expression Edit
=Fields!RowNumber.Value=Fields!TotalRows.Value
This will cause a page break to occur at the end of each record, except for the last record
I had a report that kept printing a second page.
Someone else had added the tablix and set a "Page Break" END property to the tablix.
When I changed this to NONE it solved the problem.
I had a report containing a subReport. The subreport had a 'PageBreak' property with the 'BreakLocation' set to 'Start'. Changing it back to 'None' removed the blank page I was getting.
Adding to what MikeGee had answered and considering this is a very old thread, I thought I would add my 2 cents.
To avoid blank pages, set each "BreakLocation" property of each tablix to "None". Sometimes it defaults to "End" and the number of blank pages depend on the number of tablix in your report.
For example if you have 3 tablix in your report and if each tablix has a "BreakLocation" property set to "End", you will have 3 blank pages.
set ConsumeContainerWhitespace to True if it is 2008 R2.
I had an image on the last page and when it's size was set to 210mm, 297mm (A4) it produced a blank page at the end of the report. But when I changed the height size from 297mm to 296.9mm the blank page disappeared. This was using VS2013.
Check your margins as explained above
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If you have a tablix that dynamically adds columns to your report, check that the "runtime width" of you tablix is within your margins. At runtime, it may be larger than the body-width you specify in the designer.
(Note: it's impossible to do this with the designer; try reducing the size of your columns to see if the blank page disappear).