Performance Issue In Excel Export If Many Textboxes In Page Header
Feb 15, 2008
Hi,
There was a requirement to have the table header as part of frozen rows in excel when exported because there are about 1000 rows in the report and the column header has to be retained during scrolling. Since only page headers will be frozen in excel export, the text boxes was copied from the table header row to the page header. After all text boxes were copied, the table header row was removed. After modifying the report, I noticed that the excel export report took more than half an hour for exporting the data. I tried to reproduce the problem in a sample and I was able to reproduce it using AdventureWorks data source. This report before modifying takes 1 minutes to export. After moving all the column headers to page header, it takes 25 minutes to export. Has anybody faced this issue and is there any solution for this performance problem? Thank you. Here are the steps to reproduce:
1. Create a new data source for AdventureWorks database
2. Create a new report with the AdventureWorks data source and with the query 'SELECT * FROM Person.Contact'
3. Run the report and export in excel format and note down the time taken for the same - Approx it will less than a minute.
4. Open the report layout and include a page header (Report->Page Header) and move the title from body to the page header.
5. Select each column header, copy the cell and paste in the page header and align it with the column in the body. Alternatively, a new textbox for each column can be created and arranged in the page header. (As a result, there are 16 textboxes in the page header).
6. Now, run the report and export in excel format and note down the time taken and please notice that it takes 25 minutes.
7. Delete some of the text boxes in the page header, the excel export takes less time and is dependent on the number of textboxes in the page header.
Version: SQL Server 2005 Reporting services SP2
Thanks and Regards,
Ramesh
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Mar 13, 2008
I need some help. I am writing a report in SSRS 2005 that I then need to export to Excel. When I put a report header I would expect the header to not display in the Excel spreadsheet until the Print Preview or the Print. The report footer works just fine I put some text in the footer, and it shows up in the footer. The header though, shows up as a row in the Excel spreadsheet that then causes columns to merge. How do I get the report header to act like a page header?
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Hi all,
Does anyone know of a way to keep from exporting a page header when rendering in Excel. We have a default header (title and logo) that I would like to suppress so that users don't need to delete the rows prior to sorting (to eliminate merged cells).
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Nov 12, 2007
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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.
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Feb 14, 2008
Fit an intere table in same page without page break for save the excel export.
My table has a Group for order my dates.
I need to have the intere table in the same page, i don't care about blank space at the end of the page.
I can't use the page break beacuse i need an excel export in a unique sheet..
I have tested.. every page break..you'll have a different sheet in your excel export
I need something like this
page 1
Zone
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
9
..
page 2
Zone
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
7
8
9
..
but an unique sheet in the excel export
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Aug 6, 2007
Hello Microsoft or Forum Members:
This seems like a simple Microsoft Based Reporting System 101 feature...But I can not find out how to do it (among other things that seem like it should work with Microsoft rendering to Microsoft).
How do I make the SSRS 2005 Header for the Report print on each of the pages in excel once it is rendered from SSRS?
All I want is an answer by MSFT that says "YES" it can be done and how or "No" it is not currently available.
I noticed I am not the only one with this type of simple question:
(see this unanswered post)
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1281464&SiteID=1
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When I export to PDF, it gives me a total per page, not for the report.
Does ReportItem behave differently when rendered between excel and PDF? Or is it because I am putting a SUM on a ReportItems cell?
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Hello all,
I have a report that I need to reference data in my Page Header. I am referencing 2 data fields in my report body to do this. The report will render fine and the data is present in my Pager Header; however, when I export to Excel, the data is missing; only my labels are present. What's even stranger is that it works just fine if I export to a PDF file.
Below is the expression code from one of the fields in my Page Header :
="From: " & ReportItems!dtBegDate.Value
Again, the report will render fine and my data is present. It only comes up blank when I export to Excel. The only part of the data that makes it over is the text (i.e. "From:")
I'm at a loss on this. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Karl
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I have a fairly simple report: just a table with some grouping and some header info. On one of the groups, I have a page break at end, so the report will look nice in the HTML viewer. However, my users complained that when they export to Excel (via the RS viewer) that each of the groups (with the page break) exports to a separate worksheet in Excel.
I understand this is a "feature" of SQL RS and there's not much I can do about it. So, I created an identical copy of my original report without the page break and gave my users a choice, via a check box, whether they wanted the standard (with page breaks) or excel version (no page breaks - i.e. all data appearing on the same worksheet in excel). From a functional point of view the users are happy with this.
However, we're having a major performance problem when exporting to excel. Curiously, this only affects the version that exports to a single worksheet. For example, if I choose to report on 300 funds and use the page break version of the report - the excel export takes about 30 seconds and I get an excel workbook with 300 worksheets. If I choose to report on the same 300 funds and use the non-page break version - the excel export takes anything from 15-20minutes!
Both excel outputs are roughly the same size (about 3MB). 30 seconds (even a minute or two) is acceptable to the users but not 15-20 minutes.
Does anybody have any idea why this is the case? or is there any fix/workaround/hack that will get me out of this problem?
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I have a report that I created and the report was working until I added some fields to a group footer row in a table.
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What happened to the rest of the data?
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Thanks,
Fred
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Hi Friends,
There is a one header in the report, when I publish and hit the report in IE(internet explor) the header appears fine on first page when I go to next page this header does not appear.
But in mozilla the header is visible on every page of the report. so it is working fine in mozilla.
I donot why it is happening?
Your help is highly appreciated.
Thanks
Novin
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If I have a report that includes a page header, the report viewer will render the report at the full width, but if I hide the page header and show only the body it will use the absolute width of the report.
I have a 7" wide report, with .75" borders set on each side.
Interactive & Print size are set to 8.5x11
Changing these sizes has no effect on the behavior of the viewer, which appears to ignore them.
When I view this report in the local viewer the contents fill the window if there is no page header.
If I enable the page header then the report is drawn at 8.5" wide, leaving a _big_ white border on the right side.
Any comments or workarounds that anyone knows? I know the local viewer is not a standard configuration (at least it seems) but it is what we need to use.Thanks,//Andrew
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Thanks and Regards
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Hi guys,
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Feb 27, 2007
Dear All
I am Sundaraguru from India.
I have problem with Reporting services header showing time..
I designed the one report. That report Size is 8inch x 41 inches..
What are problems i having in this reports:
1. Report header is not coming in second pages. ( For report header i am not using the report header area, Because the header informations will varying based on the data's. That's Why I placed in the detail sections)
2. While Seeing the preview time it is showing only 11 page ( for 2 record) after exporting to PDF format it showing 32 pages.
How i can solve the above problem.. I have to get is all the page's i have to show report header in all the pages.
I am using SQL Server 2005 , & VS.Net 2005 With November 2006 CTP
And Send your valuable suggestions to following mail id's sundaraguru_s@apollohealthstreet.com and sundharmail@yahoo.co.in.
Advance Thanks
Kind Regards
Sundaraguru S
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The problem though is that text box only appears once for each table, the first time the table is generated. I can't get the department name to display at the start of each page.
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---(table starts here)
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.............lots more names.......
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PAGE BREAK - - - - - - - - - -
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---(table ends here)
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What I want to get is:
DEPARTMENT NAME: Sales
---(table starts here)
.............5555...Smith
.............lots more names.......
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PAGE BREAK - - - - - - - - - -
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---(table continues on from last page...)
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---(table ends here)
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Jan 30, 2007
Hello,
I know that I can do it through:
1. A hidden parameter
2. Report Items
The first method is not good for my report because I have another application that renders the report to a PDF.
And the second method I cannot refer more than one report item and I need to refer two items.
Is there any other method that I can use?
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Feb 13, 2008
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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).
Thanks & Rgds
Neelesh Gour
Mail:neeleshgour@gmail.com
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