I'm working on a report in SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) right now, and I'm having a problem getting a rectanlge I draw on the page in the report designer to grow. Basically, I've got a rectangle drawn, and then I put a text field inside of it. The contents of this text field can be either very short or very long, so I want it to grow to accomodate its contents.
But when I enter the long text, the textbox grows and then sticks outside of the lines of the rectangle. From the SSRS documentation I read, it says rectangles should grow to contain the items within them, and that those items are "peers".
What gives?
The only way I can get a textbox to breach the border of a rectangle is if the textbox is not actually inside the rectangle, but instead is underneath it.
When the textbox is inside the rectangle, and when the textbox property CanGrow = TRUE then the textbox and its rectangle both grow vertically downward to accommodate large amounts of text.
I was seeing the same issue. My problem was that I had the text boxes first and then put the rectangle around it and sent it to the back. Once I dragged the text boxes off and then back onto the rectangle, it grew properly.
You can tell whether the textbox is in the rectangle or on the body (e.g.) by looking at the Parent property of the textbox. If the textbox is outside of the rectangle, it works well to cut the textbox and paste it into the rectangle. I've had issues at times when trying to drag objects into (onto) a rectangle.
Maybe a little late - but it may help someone later.
The rectangle can serve as a container.
To turn the rectangle into a container, create the rectangle first. Just drop your other child-object elements (e.g. lists, tables, etc) into the container.
However, you cannot create the container after creating the child objects.
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i need to create a footer that can stay at the bottom of every pages of the report, but i can't use the standard function because i need to hide some element before it self.
I hope that i've explained correctly!
Somebody can help me?
If I've understood you correctly, you should be able to do this by creating rectangles to hold your report content.
If you need a header, body and footer then you would need 3 rectangles, if you only need the main body and a footer then 2 rectangles.
For simplicity, let's say you page is 29cm high and the bottom 6cm will contain the footer.
You create a rectangle that is 23cm high and wide enough to hold the elements you need in it. Then your seconds rectangle immediately below will be 6cm.
Within each rectangle, place you report elements (text boxes, tables etc).
Note: If you already have the report elements in your report, do not drag them over the rectangle as this will literally overlay them, instead, select everything you ned, then cut them. Then click in the rectangle to make it active and paste them, this way the rectangle will be the container. If you are creating the elements from new then you can add them within the rectangle as normal.
Once all your body and footer elements are in position, change the 'ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace' property of Report to true. This property will prevent the rectangle from expanding as the number of rows in a table gets larger, as it will use the space in the container first.
How can I have fixed rectangle inside the report body for every page ? I am placing a tablix, after that a matrix inside that rectangle.
I have attached pictures of my ddl design view, pdf view and desired result layout.
So far, I have tried to use fixed tablix size by using sql insert empty row. But this way, I wasn't able to put my matrix inside it.
By simply using rectangle, since the rectangle is fixed sized and I am getting problem when my tablix has more data and it is pushing down the rectangle if I have some space below my tablix and matrix.
Any insight will be greatly appreciated.
In your Report Properties, set the ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace setting to true and make your Rectangle as large as it need to be on a page. In doing this, the tables will grow into the white space with each row and not push the bottom of the rectangle until the table is too large to fit.
I am currently having the following Problem:
I have 2 SSRS Texboxes which I place right above a Matrix:
Now as you can see the Textboxes are fixed in a standalone Position, and are all alone without anything else around them,
but guess what happens as soon as I click to Preview my Report, this happens:
The Textboxes Fly out of the Report,
and I have done everything to get them in place, I have tried getting them a little to the left, but in the end, after I got to where it would stop jumping, I got them so much left that they were in a place that I couldn't have them in.
Has anybody using Reporting Services ever experienced this?
Does anyone have a solution? Are there some properties I need to change in order for the Textboxes to stop Jumping?
Great Question, GBerisha! Essentially, you want the horizontal distance between the Heading Textbox and the two rightmost Textboxes to be fixed. There are two ways to accomplish this. The first would be to create a Rectangle from the Toolbox Menu and place the Heading Textbox and the two rightmost Textboxes inside that Rectangle. That will keep the expanding Matrix from pushing out the two rightmost Textboxes as it expands. The other way would be to create a Table, delete the Detail Row, and place the three Textboxes in the Table Header.
I have rectangle which act as container for other elements.
Can I somehow setup some property of rectangle to round its corners, in fact, to get rounded box.
In css it is easy, but how to do in SSRS?
Actually, it is fairly easy. I had a bunch of text boxes that a rounded corner border needed to be placed. The first thing I tried was an image control. I placed it on top of my text boxes and set it to "Send to back." It worked well in print rendering, however, in the browser rendering the HTML placed the textboxes after the image making it look horrible.
The solution was this:
Go into paint and draw a rounded corner box the size you need.
Cut the set of text boxes to surround with rounded border.
Place a rectangle control over the entire area all the text boxes covered.
Paste my text boxes onto the rectangle.
Right-Click and choose rectangle properties.
Select the Fill Tab and select "Embedded" image source.
Click Import and select your paint image(i used PNG but it shouldn't matter).
Click Ok.
Find and expand BackgroundImage on Rectangle and change BackgroundRepeat to "Clip.". Otherwise, your image is repeated.
The report should now render properly in both print and html rendering views. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to stretch/size, so unless you can figure that one out, you will have to repeat whenever you need a different sized rounded box.
Brian
All solution I have seen use a background image inside a textbox.
But you get problems when you try to resize the textbox.
The solution is to insert a 3x3 table inside the texbox.
Insert the 3x3 table
Insert an image on each corner. They will be a quarter of a circle each. (This image is created in MS Paint or your favorite image program)
Make those 4 corners cells unresizable (Set property CanGrow to false). Make sure all the other cells have CanGrow = true if you need it
Make all the cells the same background color (same color as the image you draw).
Write your text in the middle cell.
OPTIONAL: It might also be a good idea to fuse the 3 vertical middle cells if possible. It will allow more space to write text in the cell.
This way you won't have to create new image everytime the size of your textbox change.
You would have to build an image that has a transparent center for adding your text.
All this would be more work than I would want to do just for a report.
I would stick with just the standard textboxes.
I'm having trouble with some report items changing other items' positions when they are conditionally hidden.
I've been using Reporting Services 2000 for printing item price labels as PDFs, with the report consisting of a single table with a single cell for each item. The data fields and other items on the label are all placed inside a single rectangle. Because of the very specific layout required, some of the report items overlap in the designer in order to position correctly on the rendered PDF.
This has worked fine for several years, until we upgraded to SSRS 2008 and I had to migrate the report to the new version.
Now, suddenly, when certain items on the report are hidden (by an expression in the Hidden-property), certain other items shift their positions. In some cases, even the containing rectangle is resized.
After quite a bit of googling, I've come to the understanding that SSRS 2008 attempts to maintain the relative spacing between report items, so that if an item to the left of another one changes in size, the item to the right is adjusted accordingly.
Apparently, hiding an item equates to changing its size to zero, and so the item next to it is shifted left to fill the gap.
However, I do not want this behavior, since all items should stay in their predefined positions regardless of others.
So, does anyone know of a way to "fix" report item positions, so that they are not affected by hiding other items?
I've tried placing the items inside separate rectangles so as to group them, in the hope that only items inside the same rectangle can affect each other, but this does not seem to help.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
In the side by side example, you can place the control that may be hidden into a rectangle big enough to hold both; but then put the other control that must stay in a fixed position BEHIND the rectangle (i.e. the parent of this control is the report rather than the rectangle).
If that's not enough, and the hidden and non-hidden items use the same dataset, you could (shudder) use a giant tablix control with a grouping of =1 and the right number of rows and columns to control the layout (because you can insert rectangles inside).
Some other tricks are to set the color/backgroundcolor properties to white (though in some rendering formats you can click and drag to highlight and still read what was there)... alternately you can go so far as to make the contents of controls all expression based, so as not to produce anything if a condition is met, and so it's basically invisible.
Another approach: create rectangles containing the fields you want to hide, then put a WHITE line across the entire bottom (or top) of the rectangle. This keeps the rectangle the same size even if the fields within it are hidden. A rectangle will shrink if the fields within it shrink, but the line spanning the entire rectangle prevents this from happening.
Not sure if this will help anyone else as it's a fairly specific requirement but it solved my variant of the OPs issue so here goes. I was designing an SSRS report to print labels (in my case the Avery 5164) and the users wanted to pick which labels on the sheet they would print because they may have already used one or two labels from a page. Because the positioning of the printed labels is important I needed them to stay in place even if the labels above them on the sheet were hidden. My solution was to create empty rectangles of the same size as the label and lay them directly on top of the existing rectangles. Even if I hide two, three, four, etc... labels, the rest will stay put.
Just draw a Rectangle, and slightly overlay the Objects with the Conditional Hidden expression with the position of your new empty Rectangle. Objects out to the right will be held in place by the Rectangle. No background colors or anything, just a Rectangle. Works vertically like if you have an address block and you want objects underneath the address lines to stay put. Like so...
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