I have been struggling to get this right in Integration Services, Would really appreciate the help.
Basically I have a file with fixed length columns that I would like to import into my database using Integration Services, the file looks something like this
What I need to find out is how do I import the data, the name and surname and telephone no, but skip the header and footer records. Also I need to be able to use the header and footer data for later use.
I currently have a directory of csv import files, all of which have the same data structure but different header information.
For example:
File 1 This is header info. This is header info. This is header info. ID,Name, DOB, etc…
File 2 This is header info. This is header info. This is header info. This is header info. This is header info. ID,Name, DOB, etc…
The data starts with the column title row, ie ID,Name, DOB.What I need to happen is process that removes all the header rows up to the title row so that all import file structures will be the same.
I was thinking of using a ForEach Loop container that will run a script on each of the files to remove the header.
I have a file with a header row which contains the date of the file and under that all the columns without a header.
In SSIS package I skip row and manually name the different columns.
However, I want to use the column in the header row to store the date value in an SSIS variable and use that variable to write it to our staging table. How can I do this when I skip the header row?
I have a report that is being called via stored proc, and i want to group by contract. when report gets generated i get multiple contracts info. but will be grouped/sorted by contract.
please how can i have a group header and also a group footer to show a summary of each contract information with some calculated fields in it.
i may get 100 records related to 10 contracts , 10 rows for each contract.
as soon as the first contract info is shown on the report it has to show a summary related to the first contract in the group footer, and then continue populating the second contract info and so on.
Please i am totally new to reporting and help would be appreciated. thank you all.
I am new to SSRS 2005 and so far the only way I can figure out how to edit groups in a table is to right click on the group header or footer and select Edit Group. But how would you edit the group if you chose to not have a header or footer? And how would you delete the group for that matter? I'm looking for something like the Crystal Reports Group Expert.
I want to display a header group in a table but only in the first page. I saw the option Repeat group header in the group properties but if I don't check that option the space of the header disapear. I want to show the header in the first page and a blank space in the rest of page.
The problem I am running into is I want to make sure the header/footer is on each next page,if the grade report goes more than 1 page (so pages aren't separated from each other or mixed up). I could put a textfield as a footer at the bottom the list control but that would just appear at whatever length page 2 ended up being (basically you could have a "footer" at mid-page if the whole list only took up 1.5 pages).
I need to create a query which gives me something like this
HH20060831160342 DDasb IT 3000 FF20060831160709000000001
Where 'HH' is the header(followed by Date and time) and 'FF' is the footer (followed by Date, time and no of records)and 'DD' has some details (few fields) from database.I am using UNION to get this result but the problem is that if the count in the footer is 0 then query should not give any output.but If I am using the following query select 'HH'+convert(varchar,getDATE(),112)+replace(convert(varchar,getdate(),8),':','') as filename,'' as name,'' as dept,'' as sal union all select 'DD'+'',filename,dept,sal from emp where empno like '%1%' union all select 'FF'+convert(varchar,getDATE(),112)+replace(convert(varchar,getdate(),8),':','')+ REPLICATE(0, 9-len(COUNT(*)))+''+convert(VARchar(10),COUNT(*)) as filename,'' as name,'' as dept,'' as sal from emp where empno like '%1%'
I am getting the result as
HH20060831161226 FF20060831161226000000000 if the second select statement has no records
I have data arriving in fixed-width EBCDIC format. Each file contains one or more groups of records. Before and after each group there is a header/footer, which is not in the same layout as the records that it describes. Header, record and footer each have a different layout to the other but are consistent within themselves.
Thankfully the one thing header, footer and record layout have in common is their length, so at the moment, using the appropriate code page in the Flat File Connection Manager, I'm able to read all the columns as strings. The headers and footers just come through, albeit a bit weird looking, and I can filter them out with a conditional splt.
However, the header contains information that needs to be appended to each record in the group. Does anyone have any suggestions about how to achieve this? I'm trying to avoid developing a custom data source for this task but, if there's no other way, has anyone done it and do they have any tips?
Is there a way to dynamically make report header and footer fields change location (or size)? I have many matrix reports that grow in width and then the header and footers do not look good.
Another example is I have a line that is in the header...I would like this to grow to the width of the report, which again is not static on a matrix report.
I accidentally unclicked the check-boxes for group-header and group footer - I meant to leave the group header in. Now, I can't get to the group to edit it! Is there any way I can get back to it?
When I try to use (from page header or footer) a parameter or global or a function I wrote, I get the error below. Anyone got any ideas? Other reports within the VS 2005 project don't have this problem. Thanks....
An unexpected error occurred in Report Processing. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
I have a custom code that can gets string from an array:
Public Shared FormatArray() As Object Public Shared Function GetFormat(ByVal _Col As Integer) As String Return FormatArray(_Col) End Function
However if I place the code in a Table details value expression =Code.GetFormat(0), It will give me #ERROR
But if I put in the Table Header row value, then it shows me the String correctly, same for in Footer of the table. Its only within the details rows that is not working
I'm a bit stumped at this. I have done this before a bunch of times. The difference is that this time I have two rectangles in the footer. For the each, the visibility is set to an expression which checks whether the page is page 1 or 2. If it is 1, the first rectangle is visible, if 2, the second. When I reference the hidden fields on the main area of the report via ReportItems, they come through fine on the first rectangle, but are invisible on the second. I've tried the same exact fields and every time they are visible in rectangle1, and invisible in rectangle2. What is going on here???
A space was added as the first character of the contents in the Left, Center and Right section of the Report Header and Footer exported to Excel. Example :
In the RDL, Header values are:
Left = "Product Report" ; Center = "Confidential" ; Right = "Page n of n"
In the exported report to Excel, Header properties (-->File.-->Page Setup--> Header/Footer Tab) are:
Left = " Product Report" ; Center = " Confidential" ; Right = " Page n of n"
I am making a book-like report, I am using a report that has a header and calling a sub-report that has it's own header. However the sub-report header is not showing on the parent report. Parent report header is prevailing over the sub-report. Is it possible to have both headers displaying?
I am having a main report having two subreports, say M1,S1 and S2 respectively.
The issue is S2 normally tend to go beyond one page, for all pages except first page of the of the subreport I am getting the page header and footer blank,
Actually this is not loading the ReportItems that are used in main report but it shows text boxes containing strings for eg . "My Name" and date functions eg Today()
create table temp ( Â Â date1 datetime, Â Â category varchar(3), Â Â amount money
[code]....
In above format:15-10 means Oct 15, 15-09 means Sept 15I am getting issues while formatting this in SSRS.I need SSRS table headers to be dynamic. I need that it should be according to the sql table header...The table header should change according to the sql query
I had to create an invoice report, where there is a stub on the buttom of the last page.
I need a report footer and RS does not have it.
I talked to Microsoft about it, here is the full emails between me and Microsoft.
hope this helps
Read from buttom to top
-------------------------------- Hi Ronnie Sorry I was late in getting back to you as I was out of the office in the last couple of days I made some checks and it seems the problem that you have is a genuine one. The workarounds that you specified are the only solutions available now.
I checked with the development team and even though they are aware of the problem, they told me that there won€™t be changes to fix it in SQL 2008 So you have to decide on one of the workarounds that you specified
Best Regards,
Hi Tamer, I wonder if you had any updates on our issue with RS2005.
Thanks,
Thanks for your help on this issue, I am going to more research on your solution (moving the footer to the body). Meanwhile, I be looking forward for your sample as well.
Thanks again for all your efforts.
Ronnie Peretz
Hi neil I think there is a way to implement your need in Reporting Services Reporting Services has a free form designer which means that whatever you put on the report will appear in the same order in the final view. This is why we don€™t have a report footer.
Instead of putting the stub in the footer, just put it after the last item. You can use a list dataregion to make sure that the stub will always appear at the bottom of the page in the expected location
Ronnie, I hope that solves your problem Contact me directly if you need more info on how to implement this
Best Regards, Tamer Farag
Here are all the facts I learned about Reporting Services "Report Footer" limitations and workaround I have tried.
Objective: On the last page of an invoice at the bottom of the last page have a stub of the invoice:
Issue: Reporting Services does not support Report Footer only Page Footer. (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1439673&SiteID=1)
Work around that I have tried:
Work around 1:
I have created a page footer with a rectangle and set the Visibility expression to =Globals.PageNumber < Globals.TotalPages
Results: The page footer did show up only in the last page, but created a block of space in the first pages.
I was trying to see if there is a way to suppress the spaces from the first pages, and found out it's not supported in Reporting Services
This behavior where the report body would consume the space of the empty page header & footer is currently not supported.
-- Robert (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=340650&SiteID=1)
Work around 2:
I tried to fit all the footer objects in the rectangle in a very small height range, hoping it will auto grow at run time. That did not work as well.
The textboxes did auto grow, but the Rectangle object or the Page Footer itself does not auto grow, cause to cut the footer information.
Work around 3:
Set the property on the page footer PrintOnFirstPage to False, and PrintOnLastPage = True, Reporting services does print the footer in pages in between.
works great for reports that have only 2 pages, but not not more then 2 pages
Best workaround:
Instead of having a space block at the bottom of each page, have a marketing text on every page except the last page
I had overlap a textbox on top of the rectangle (in the page footer) and having this expression on the Visibility =Globals.PageNumber = Globals.TotalPages.
For most of the invoices which are one page, that text will not show up and the Invoice stub will show up
For Invoices which are two pages or more, the marketing text will show up in the first pages only and in the last page the Invoice stub will show.
note: this workaround cause a warning saying "Overlapping report items are not supported in all renderers."
I was asked to add a subreport in my report footer so that it appears on every page of the report. I spent some time trying to figure it out or find an answer on the web, but it appears it can not be done.
In Visual Studio, when previewing a report with a footer that has two rows of text, the footer appears to display correctly. When I export to Word, the footer for the first page looks as if it has shifted down slightly and the second line is missing. Subsequent pages show the footer correctly.
I have a group in my report that contains an empty footer row to get a better visibility. Because the row has a frame it should be hidden if its the last row on the page. How can I manage that?
Report in question is an invoice form. It requires an absolutely bottom-of-page aligned footer that has databound elements. This is so that whatever page that footer finally appears on will print in such a way that the address will align in a windowed envelope. Ironically, Books Online gives this exact scenario in explaining headers and footers in SSRS, but they cleverly don't explain how an absolutely bottom-of-page-aligned and data-bound footer can be made to happen. Headers at absolute page top is obviously no problem. Footers at page bottom, not so much.So, this is not a "page footer"--page footers are employed in the body. Also this footer is databound, so a page footer as it's known in SSRS is out the window anyway.
Most of the time this will print on a single page, but if it breaks to multiple pages, that footer needs to go all the way to the absolute bottom.I grasp that the "report footer" for SSRS is just what appears at the end of any repeating controls that you've implemented in your body. Because SSRS uses this kind of repeating-control based idiom rather than a section-based idiom as Crystal does, this kind of (what I would consider very basic) positioning control is looking fairly impossible right now.Among what I've tried:
--Page footer (can't; databound) --Specifying a page break after the pre-footer controls, and/or a page break before the controls that make up the footer in their properties. This leads to unpredictable results with blank printed pages (as many as 8 for what previews as a 2-page report, how silly is that?). --Putting in a page-height rectangle as part of the footer (with and without the page breaks mentioned above), with the idea of forcing a basically blank page at the end of the report so that the footer will go to the bottom. SSRS will go ahead and break the page anyway on long elements like that, which again leads to the "footer" being printed in the middle or top of the final page, or whereever it happens to fall.
I may be having to explain to my client that you can't get there from here, and they may have to redesign their report.
Hello friends. I managed to design an Integration service package,but the desired level of performance has not been achieved(i.e it is performing slow). So I want to know what are the best practices for optimized solution . In my package I'm exreacting data from XML file and Storing it in SQL server database with some processing dring data flow.
I'm using 1) Two Script Task Control -In these control,I m opening the connection to XML file through VB.net code and iterating each record at a time. 2)Two OLE DB Command -Each fetched record from script task component is processed in OLEDB command through stored procedure and then inseted into database. 3)One for Loop -This loop contains two script Task control and two OLEDB Command control, (mentioned above),for fetching single record and inserting it in database. 4)One derived Column 5)One Multicast 6)One Character Map 7)One OlEDB Source
As with my current performance I'm able to insert one record in every .5 second (Which is much below to acceptable limits) Is control lying disabled on SSIS designer pane also affect the performance of execution.
I am exporting SSRS report to Excel I am aware that excel doesn't show footer , It shows in print preview but my footer has text box which have text disclaimer more than 255 characters, the data getting truncated.
We have the customer requirement to display the footer of a SSRS Report fixed at the absolute bottom of a DIN A4 format page. The footer contains information like company address and stuff.
I searched quite a while on this topic and only found workarounds for SQL Server 2005 with Custom Code in the SSRS Report to calculate the size of the body content and then insert some empty lines to get the space needed to push the footer to the bottom of the page. But this won't work in SQL Server 2012. And I wasn't able to figure out how to achieve this yet.
