i have a client who is dissatisfied with the merged columns and rows produced when SSRS renders to Excel, it prevents them from easily copying and pasting data into another workbook.
Is there going to be any work done in this area of the product in the near future? My understanding is that this 'issue' has been around for quite some time, and shortly after the SSRS2005 RTM release the team were going to look at tidying up the Excel rendering. Can anyone from MS make an official comment on this?
I'm trying to eliminate merged cells when exporting a report to Excel. My problem being my report textbox above my table.
I've searched and found that making the textbox the same width as the first column eliminates the merging. Perfect, it does. But when the report is viewed in the report viewer, the textbox can only expand vertically. So the title looks terrible because column one is not wide.
I've read that expand horizontally is not an option I don't seem to be able to tell it not to output that text box, which would be an option if there is no other answer I can't have the text box the size I want it, due it creating merged cells I don't want to export it as a CSV
Are there any other options available or am missing something?
Lets say I have a table PortDates with 3 columns like this:PORT ARRIVALDATE SAILINGDATENewYork 12-15-2004Rio 10-12-2004Hamburg 10-14-2004etc.I want to sort the ports on dates from both date columnsSELECT Port FROM PortDatesORDER BY (ArrivalDate JOIN SailingDate)Now, that doesn't work of course, but what should I write to get it to workso I can order by the dates as if they were one merged column?Join Bytes!
I have a basic matrix report but whenever I export this report to Excel, some of the cells end up becoming merged. Is there any way to avoid this using Reporting Services instead of formatting the cells directly in Excel?
I have a report in that report having some Text boxes and below tables.But the problem is when i export the report into excel textboxes are merged, not getting properly.
Ok guys, here's the problem. Normally if I were sorting a report that needed to be rendered to pdf or excel, I'll sort the data in the dataset before loading it into the reportviewer in my code. This is in vb, for example:
But for this particular case, I have to load the data into the report first, because in the actual report I have to combine two columns based on certain criteria (i do this using an expression for a column in my table) , and after those two columns are combined then they must be sorted.
But since the data is already loaded into the reportviewer I can't sort like I normally would, the report is rendered in either excel or pdf so interactive sort is pointless. I can't sort through table or properties or the properties of the text box because both fields are combined and you can only sort based on one field.
We have a reporting system where the default rendering format is HTML. HOwever, in some cases user may export the data into Excel aftergenerating the report in HTML. Howveer, this export is taking too much time. eg 5500 row report in HTML takes around 8 minutes to export into excel. Is there a workaround for this? Please note that default rendering has to be in HTML only.
Also another feature noticed is that in RS 2005, the report server execution log seems to be logging seperate entries for export feature as well. This was not happening in RS2000. Is this a new feature in RS2005 or is the underlying SP for the new report being called again when the export to excel happens?
i have developed reports which uses Line textbox, and list ...
When i render these reports in acrobat and excel, acrobat works fine but excel it takes line every thicker even if i decrease the width of the line to 0.25pt excel takes as same as if it was 1.0pt
is there any solution for this, my report has no warnings .
i have a report with date formats,numbers, percentages,when runnig the preview it successfully those are visible in preview, but problem is when iam importing report into excel , those date formats,numbers,percentages are not visible in excel sheet. instead of date formats, numbers, percentages, cells are empty and cells not contain any data like dateformat , number,percentage.
so please help me because i have only one day for delivering repport,
i hope any body save me this problem, iam giving advanced thanks to our forum members.
my report dont fit on a A4 letter. thats not a problem at the report viewer but when i print or export the report. can i scale the report to fit to one page??
Okay, when will SRS 2005 support Office 2007 extensions.
I find it hard to believe that a service pack has not been releaseed to support Office 2007. If there is I apologize in advance for this message.
Info: Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportProcessing.WrapperReportRenderingException: An error occurred during rendering of the report. ---> Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportRendering.ReportRenderingException: An error occurred during rendering of the report. ---> System.Exception: Excel Rendering Extension : Number of rows in the Excel sheet exceeded the limit of 65536 rows.
When using a subscription to send mail, I find that the report can be sent in any format apart from Excel, which gives me the error: "Failure sending mail: Unspecified error". As you can imagine, this doesn't give me much to go on!
I want to use Excel format as it retains the drilldown functionality (hiding / unhiding rows). The ExecutionLog has the status as rsSuccess, but Subscription tab for the report shows the error.
Getting old favourite message 'Out of Memory' when running a horizontal clustered chart with Category: 200 items Series: 200 items per Category.URL... 'By default, the report server sets WorkingSetMaximum to the amount of available memory on the computer. This value is detected when the service starts.'
The report has been tried on 3 large servers with 30GB & 60GB memory. The report runs on a 2008 install but not a 2008R2 install. We've created a test report that simply generates a series of data 1-n for Category and 1-n for Series where n can be set by parameter - so the issue is not to do with the volume of data or the processing required by SSMS. The report runs if the data is output to a table rather than a chart - so the issue appears to be with rendering the chart.
The chart is rendered when the Category has 200 items with a Series of 150 per Category. The report fails with Category 200 items and Series 200 per Category.
I am using a Excel Source to get the data from an excel file to sql server 2005 table. A couple columns are coming in a double precision float, but some values have characters in them, but those values are coming out as null, even though I changed the datatype from float to unicode string. Any inputs on resolving this will be much appreciated.
I have a problem and i wish i can get the answers or advices to solve it.
i have like 20 excel files and in each file there is 1 sheet (Planning) . What i need to do is to loop on the on the 20 files (actually this is the easy part and i already done it) the hard part is while looping i need to open each excel file and loop on the 256 columns in it and extract the data from it to a SQL server Database.
First of all, this is not in reference to using SRS (SQL Reporting Services) to render a report and then use one of the extensions to render the complete report as a pdf, tiff, excel etc. We have an opportunity to render a list of claims and then embed the supporting docs for each of the claims within the report. We don't have an issue referencing jpg and gif images via URLs and then rendering them within the report after the grid information. We do have an issue rendering tiff images within the report.
You can insert an image object into SRS at design time and have it render and you can convert a complete report to a tiff image but I cannot find a way to be able to render a tiff image when running the report. All you get is the red "x".
My question is has anyone encountered the same issue and, if so, what did you do to resolve the issue?
Is there a reason why a single cell in a table with the CanGrow property set to true will grow down, and merged cells grow right, and is there any way around it?
I have a report that I have to display comments, so I merged 2 cells put the comment field in it, and when it is displayed in the browser, it expands off the page.
When it prints, it seems to be fine, but the majority of my users will be viewing online in a browser.
Any ideas? just an HTML thing I am thinking, and nothing can be done about it.
In the footer from a report I want to print the UserID and the Date. I added a textbox with de following code: =User!UserID & " " & Globals!ExecutionTime
Now I want to change the date format in dd-MM-yyy uu:mm. This is not possible in the textbox properties because I added the UserID to the same textbox. Is there a way to change the format?
I receive this error during rendering when I have two cells merged together:
Error Snippet
Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index
When I "Split Cells" on the offending cells, it starts to work. This report renders without error when run on the RS server. This error only occurs when running the report locally on the "Preview" tab in the report designer.
I have closed the IDE and deleted the *.data files and restarted with the same results. Is there anyway to get more information about the error to help debug the problem?
I am trying to split cells that are merged as part of a grouped report. Am using the right-button menu and pressing "Split Cells" when it appears but it just splits into two parts and not into single cells or rows. When I right-button on one of the parts that came out of the split, I do not get a "Split Cells" to break it down further. Want to be able to split the grouped cells into individual cells or rows and have the rows be different colors. How can I do this?
Hi,I have boolean values in a table for ex. Federation. And I want toselect followingSelect 'Insert into' + member + 'test' as test1from federationThen I get error messageServer: Msg 403, Level 16, State 1, Line 1Invalid operator for data type. Operator equals add, type equals bit.Someone can help me out of it.Thanks an advance- Loi -
So I have Excel Source in my dataflow - so I do a simple transform and try to save it to db and guess what - a freaking error message: Columns blahblah and BlahBlah cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode datatype. I cant figure this MS stuff out - why the heck is this data from excel unicode to begin with & I just dont feel it is right to always use the derived columns to convert datatypes when dealing with Excel data. Am I missing something again or is it another one of those MS gotchas?
-- Note - all profanity in this post is replaced with words like freaking, stuff, gotcha and so on by the author
I have two spreadsheets in excell. There are 3000 numbers on one sheet, and there are 900 numbers on the other sheet. I want to know which numbers overlap and either somehow flag the overlaping numbers on both sheets or create a third sheet that just contains the numbers that exist in both. Is there some straightforward set of function comands in excel to do this?
I use a SSIS package to loop thro a folder and load data from multiple excel files to a SQL2005 table. Works fine except when an excel has a missing col.
Col names in xls are always a subset of col names in the table. The missing cols are random, else I would just have made another package:-)
Once a missing column is found, I get runtime and design time errors, and metadata problems. How can a get SSIS to ignore missing columns?
I created an Excel Source and used a query to get the data,i.e
SELECT F1,F2,F3,F4,F5,F6,F7 FROM [Fut Days$A20:G1480]
The query works fine, the preview returns the rows, but SSIS will not generate output Columns nor will it let me manually add them? Am I missing something?
Is there a way to control the way Reporting Services exports the report to Excel? The actual report being exported is filling all the columns and lines with blank into the sheet. The report has only 600 lines and 5 columns and the final Excel file is about 3 MB in size because is filling the 65,XXX lines allowed by Excel.
Hi, We have an existing merged replication schema that works well. One of the tables is named audit. Currently this is a bidirectional transfer. However, we want a new audit table that will transfer data from the subscriber to the publisher and not the other way round. I have a script that was generated as a backup script when replication was first created. I have no idea which parameter to change in order to have the merge replication going from subscriber to publisher. Any advise is helpful. Thanks.
I am trying to update a SQL table using an excel file which has 2 columns FMStyle and FMHSNum.
FMStyle is my link to the SQL table.
Here is what I have for code....
-------------------------------------------------- Update DataTEST.dbo.zzxstylr SET hs_num = (select FMHSNum FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0', 'Excel 12.0;Database=c: empStyleHSCodesLoad.xls;HDR=YES ', [Sheet1$])) Where FMStyle = zzxstylr.style --------------------------------------------------
Everything seems to be ok except for the "Where FMStyle" is giving me a message Invalid Column name on FMStyle. Do I need to qualify FMStyle and if so how.
I have an excel source which is a 41 column sheet. The excel filepath is stored in a table and captured into a variable. The excel source import is contained within a foreach loop and will loop through each file and continue until all the excel files are processed. It works fine until it gets to the last file. The import then fails with the following error:
The column "F42" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The column "F43" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The column "F44" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The column "F45" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The column "F46" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection. The column "F47" needs to be added to the external metadata column collection.
Now when i open the excel sheet and hit CTRL+END the cursor goes to a column 6 to the right of the last column with data in it, effectively column 47 where column 41 is the end of my data.
I guess that the jet engine is trying to import these additional columns but because i am not expecting them there is no destination set up for them in the OLEDB destination and susequently the metadata needs to be added. I do not want to do this as these are excel files originating from the client and i cannot control how many additional columns they are going to "add".
Does anyone have any ideas as to how i can solve this? Is there a way of identifying the last column with data and only importing those columns?
Thanks in advance for any help or experience of this issue
