Drilldown: Collapsed Detail Lines Still Take Up White Space Instead Of Resizing On Page
May 15, 2007
I have a report that (for purposes of this example) displays States and the Cities in a state.
Now the State is the first group which I want to drill down into by expanding and then show the Cities as the detail line.
What I would expect to happen (and what does happen if I use the wizard instead of creating the report manually) is that I would click on a State and then the page would expand to make room for all the cities listed below.
(That is to say if I am showing only states, not expanded, then all 50 states fit on a single page. Then if I expand California all the states below that shift onto other pages to make room for the 400+ cities in California)
However, what happens is that when I preview the report instead of being 1 page long it is many pages in length with empty white space between the States (white space that would be occupied by the cities if I were to expand the state).
Can someone tell me what setting I need to adjust to get the report to dynamically resize when I expand/collapse groups?
When i view the Report from SSRS Report preview Tab it's working fine, But when i deploy that and try to view in the IE I am seeing the Body background color in between the image and page border of the page footer how to solve that?
I am listing detail transaction lines in a table sorted by account and order number. the problem is that I only want to see the detail if the sum of a value field is zero for all the transactions in an order otherwise ignore the detail for that order.
I was trying Group by and Having but this doesn't seem to do what I need.
Being relatively new to Reporting services, any nudge in the right direction would be useful.
Hi, I am trying to do this: UPDATE Users SET uniqueurl = replaceAllEmptySpacesInUniqueURL('uniqueurl') What would be the syntax. Any help appreciated. Thanks
I am developing a report analog of a machine readable form that has to display a static number of detail rows regardless of the number returned from the database - i.e. if a record set has only three detail records, I need to display three blank rows, while if the record set has ten detail records, I need to display six detail records, print the footer, start a new page, repeat the header information, print the remaining 4 detail records and 2 blank rows, print the footer again and move on to the remaining recordset. I am new to report development and I'm having to pick it up on the fly. I can't seem to locate any documentation about how to handle this scenario.
I don't have the time or inclination to re-invent the wheel here, is there anyone who has solved this problem who can point me in the direction of some help?
I can't believe it's been a few days and I can't figure this out. We have a flat file (purchaseOrder.txt) that has header and detail lines. It gets dropped in a folder. I need to pick it up and insert it into normalized tables and/or transform it into another file structure or .NET class.
10001,2005/01/01,some more data SOME PRODUCT 1, 10 SOME PRODUCT 2, 5
Can somebody place give me some guidance on how to do this in SSIS?
Ok, here is the problem. Client created a database with Allocated Space of 5GB. THEY WILL ONLY EVER HOLD A MAXIMUM OF 1GB IN DATA!!! Don't ask.
In any case, they currently have a database filled with 600MB of Data and 4.4GB of White Space. From what I can see, the database is backing up that entire database nightly, based on 5GB of allocated space. It doesnt care that only 600MB is being used, it only knows that someone put aside 5GB and its gonna darn well back it up.
I need to get rid of that space. Their Backups are taking hours on end and Batch Files are timing out. Quite honestly, they dont need to back up 4.5GB of white space.
QUESTION: How can I eliminate that white space? I have tried to run several SQL scripts to Truncate the DB and eliminate unused space, unfortunately it is not working. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
I think this may be a dumb question, but here goes.If there is a lot of "white space" in a field in SQL Server, does it take upserver space, or is it just ignored?Example:Name of product<br>Manufacturer's Name<br>Manufacture's Phone number<br>Instead of this:Name of product<br>Manufacturer's Name<br>Manufacture's Phonenumber<br>I think it would, but maybe not?Thanks, J~
Just a quick one - I swear I've seen a function before that was like Len() but it counted the white spaces too. I have a feeling it was something along the lines of "data_length" but I can't for the life of me find it!
I am hoping there is either a quick fix within SQL reporting services or a 3rd party tool for SQL reporting services that will fix my error. If not, we will be forced to go back to Crystal Reports.
I have a large report, that per each record prints between 3 and 5 pages of information. It is laid out like an MS Word document (as that is what is needed to send off to the client), so it is in standard letter style with the text growing down vertically.
I have about 10 large text (SQL Server Text field types) fields on this report. The report itself was built using the SQL Reporting Services table tool, so I could correclty group the information into the same record and also to keep the needed specific report formatting.
Everything looks GREAT, except for large white space in the report. The cause is that each row on the SQL Reporting Services table contains a field of data. Well, in some instances there is too much text to fit on the current page of the report (in some cases as much as 3/4 a page of paper), so instead of starting to print on the page and then continuing to print on to the next page, the data will skip the page and start at the top of the next page.
This will leave large white spaces in my report. In one instance I have a Text field that with the correct formatting is larger than a page. So the report prints on 1/4 of page 2, is blank for remander 3/4 of a page 2, and then starts printing the large text field on the following page (page 3). So 3/4 of a page in my report is left empty.
Is there a work around for this, or a 3rd party tool that can be purchased to allow for this? I have not found a setting or a way to keep the table rows together as there is in Crystal Reports.
In SSRS the controls(chart and table) are hidden .Some white space occured for each full page. How to avoid such white space (blank page) for every page.
In our report there is five Controls and some of the controls are to be hidden. And that some pages having only white space. How to avoid such blank spaces.
I am trying to print only the grand total raw. The grand total is based on the information in the groups and therefore I cannot hide the groups.
Instead I am trying to minimize the size of the group raw by sizing font, shrink, etc but with no success. I still get a lot of unwanted space. How can resolve this?
Hello everyone, In reports ,My customer requirement is to display column based on selected criteria in UI . The columns which are not selected by him will hide. for that we kept an expression in Visibility --> Hide
Code Snippet = NOT Parameters!Parameters.Value.ToString().Contains("Name")
then coming to HTML Report It is working fine,but white space coming at end of the Table. can't we supress the white space? The white space width is exactly the width of the column which is hidden. My designing in layout is wrong? Else is that Problem with the SSRS? Experts Please let me Know!!!! Give me Solution!!! Customer is strictly focusing on that requirement.
***Note: white Space is Some what Acceptable.But My Reports are very big like 45 columns around.When he selects 10 out of 45 then you can assume how much space is coming????????****
I have a main report and a subreport. If the subreport doesn't have any data then I hide it, but the main report still shows the white space of where the subreport would show up if it had data. So how can I get rid of the extra white space in the main report?
I have created a report that works how I want it in the visual studio 2003 designer. I have deployed it to our test box (sql server 2k, reporting services with sp2) and when we preview the report, there is a giant white space between the graph in the report and the matrix object below it. This white space was not in the designer. It only shows when previewing the report. If you print from the report manager, it does not print the white space.
Is there a way to remove it from the report manager when the report is previewed? I am sure users will complain when they see this.
I build a tablix A in SSRS, which contains a tablix B and a textbox C. When the report is exported to word,  I found that there is white space between the tablix B and textbox C if the row of tablix B is spilled over to next page.
If I export the report to PDF, the white space issue is gone.
SELECT t.Doctor, t.LedgerAmount, t.TransactionDate, ISNULL(lg.LedgerGrpDesc, 'No Sales Group') AS LedgerGroup FROM Transactions t LEFT OUTER JOIN LedgerGroups lg ON t.LedgerDescription = lg.dbLedgerDesc
[Code] .....
My problem is that the data in t.LedgerDescription sometimes now has either leading/trailing white space or more likely special chars so the join against lg.dbLedgerDesc doesn't always work.
I can't change the source of the data to strip out special chars/white space so am stuck on how to deal with it.
I tried using LTRIM & RTRIM in the where clause but this doesn't seem to have had any effect...
LEFT OUTER JOIN LedgerGroups lg ON LTRIM(RTRIM(t.LedgerDescription)) = lg.dbLedgerDesc
I am using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and all my reports preview with many more pages, as the preview will show Page 1 of 20, but if I print the report I get say 12 pages. The reports are always correct, but the preview show less data per page? Is there a way to get the preview to be what is going to print out?
This occurs in MS Visual Studio 2005 also as well as from the web. On a drill down report I get on some reports only 10 line when the print out will have 30 lines perpage
In SRSS 2005 (SP2) my page header seems to take up the same amount of space on the 1st page it would take if it were to print; I have PRINT ON FIRST PAGE set to false - the header doesn't print - it just leaves the same amount of space. How do you get the report to ignore that. I do have a report header built into the body of my report. I have tested this by increasing the size of my page header and it does move the report up or down on the 1st page by that amount.
I'd like to create a master-detail output from SQL2005 to display in a page using classic ASP. Ideally, I want the output to contain a <div> to show/hide the order details beneathe the order header, as shown below.
I currently just have a stored procedure returning the results and it is very slow as I'm simply querying the details section for each order header. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can create an efficient and fast method for returning these results in the format above?
I have a master detail reports in one page. Master report displays all the products and details report shows their orders... What I want is, when user clicks on products graph its detail graph show the orders of that particular record on the same page. Both reports would remain visible on the same page side by side.
I have a report with several matrix objects. The data contained in each matrix is simple. One matrix has one column of labels and a column of data. The other has 3 columns of data. Both matrix's only show about 25 rows of data. A variable amount of data is displayed above the matrix's so that sometime the render across a page boundary. Whenever this happens the matrix doesn't render rows down to the bottom of the page. A considerable amount of empty space is left on the page, the completed matrix is displayed on the next page. I'm wondering how to get the matrix to render in this empty space.
This problem only occurs when I view the report on screen, in the Visual Studio "Preview" window, or from the Report Server web site. Tiff, pdf and printed output doesn't contain the extra space.
I've tried adding my matrix to a List and a Rectangle to see of this would fix the problem but it didn't help.
I've check the dimensions and margins or the page and I don't think I have any sizing problems, everything should fit on the page.
When I go to preview mode and select the print preview. The white background is black and the black is white. Any one know how to set this back to the original way it worked?
I keep getting extra space at the bottom of each page on my report when it is deployed to the web server but I don't get this extra space on the report server. Does anyone know if this is in the report layout or if the problem is in the web page itself?
I want to konw how many rows a data page could contains.
So i do some test to prove it.
The follow sql scripts i used:
create table table1
(
col1 char(2)
)
go
declare @a int
set @a=0
while @a<700
begin
insert into table1 values('aa')
set @a=@a+1
end
I add 700 recrods to table1,then use dbcc page command oversee the data page.
The result indicate that:the whole recrods are all in one data page,and the "m_freeCnt" flag equal 396. (8192-96-700*9-700*2=396)So i think i can add more records to the data page.To my surprise, after i add a new record, sql server 2005 allocates a new data page and assign the recrod to the new space....
I have the t-sql script that generates database report of space used for 200 databases on MS SQL Server 2000. How can I dump the contents of this report to an Excel spreadsheet and/or a Web page html file?
-- Space Usage report for MS SQL Server 2000 databases USE MASTER; GO EXEC sp_msforeachdb @command1="use [?] exec sp_spaceused"
I'm new to SQL and need help with a query. Not sure if this is the right place.
I have 2 tables, one MASTER and one DETAIL.
The MASTER table has a masterID, name and the DETAIL table has a detailID, masterID, and value columns.
I want to return a populated MASTER table with entries based on the DETAIL.value.
SELECT MASTER.* FROM MASTER WHERE DETAIL.value > 3
This is a simplified version of my problem. I can't figure out how to set the relationship between MASTER.masterID and DETAIL.masterID. If I do an INNER JOIN, the number of results are based on the number of DETAIL entries. I only want one entry per MASTER entry.
In the report I€™m making I set the visibility property of the textboxes comprising a row to be toggled on by an item in the group header. I set the initial visibility to hidden, and initial appearance to collapsed. Now this worked fine, I get group headers with the sum of the records, that I can expand by clicking +. The problem is that even though the collapsed rows are empty and the lines separating them from each other are invisible, they still take up space so the other group header (when collapsed) starts not right away, but after a space which is equal to the sum of the height of all the hidden rows. All I managed to do is set the row property to €œcan shrink to accommodate contents€? and set the row height to 0.07937cm this helps but if the group contains 50-100 records the space between headers is quite big. I do not know why, but I can€™t set the row height to 0.0cm. This problem also bothers me when I hide duplicates in group and the empty row is still visible in the report. It takes up space and the people using the report are complaining for the unnecessary lines that hinder reading. Could anyone help me with this one?
I have created a matrix where I have booleans on the rows and columns. They are initially in the collapsed state. For reporting purposes, I would like the initial state to to be expanded or at list a quick fix to quickly convert the collapsed booleans to expanded booleans.
I have navigated to the Layout tab and right-clicked the fields that are tied to the boolean and then clicked on the properties. This bring sup the Textbox Properties. From here, I click on the Visibility tab. At the bottom of the textbox is a section "Initial appearance of the toggle image for this report item:". The default choice is marked as collapsed (+). One would logically think that you you would have to do then is select the expanded (-). choice. Well, when I do this, all it simply does is chance the icon from a '+' to a '-' and the fields are still shown as collapsed.
I have a matrix which lets you drill-down by company divisions and then branches within those divisions, and the data columns show how many employees are required for each divisionranch, and how many they actually have. For example, Division 1 might have 9 / 9 for Actual / Required, but when you drill it down to Branches A and B, they may have 5 / 4 and 4 / 5 respectively. Therefore Branch A has surplus employees and Branch B has a shortfall, but at the Divisional level it looks like there are the correct number of employees.
Naturaly my customer is a bit concerned that this could be misleading data. Is there any way that I can check at the Divisional level (i.e. collapsed) whether a Branch at the expanded level has a surplus or shortage of employees? I'm not sure whether this could be resolved by redesigning the report or if it's even possible. Any ideas would be great!
Is there a way to have the Report Manager show the header/toolbar in the collapsed state instead of full screen by default? (i.e. the top of the report starts with "New Subscription" instead of "SQL Server Reporting Services") These are Report Server reports, and I need to show several reports in one view (I'm using T-dog ibrowse to do this in a Powerpoint slide show). It looks cluttered to have the headers show repeatedly.
We are looking into sql 7.0 and would like to know how it handles excessively sized databases. If we restore a 6.5 database into a db on 7.0 will it automatically resize to free up disk space or will it only work for new databases which have install scripts run on it.