Report Layout Design Tip
Mar 25, 2008
I'm trying to create a report like following format. Any idea how can I design it?
'ID', 'Title', 'Answer' and 'Comment' have to span multiple rows which will list 'Response'.
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ID Title Answer Response Comment
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1 | Q1 | B | A | aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
| | | B | aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
| | | C | aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
| | | D |
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2 | Q2 | C | A | bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
| | | B | bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
| | | C | bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
| | | D |
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Nov 29, 2007
I have 3 'separate' but related processes that I am developing in SSIS. Each process shares a few global variables and connection objects. None of the processes depend on inputs or outputs from the other processes. However, there is a sequence order in which they are exectuted.
Should I develop these three process in the same package or 3 separate packages in the same solution?
From the point of view of sharing the same variables and connection objects, maybe just one package? If so, would it be advise to use the toolkit's 'Sequence Container' to ensure the order in which the 3 processes are run? I noticed that 'global variables' are limited to the scope of individual packages so it would appear that a variable can't be shared between packages in the same solution? I was also thinking that in terms of configuration settings, there might be an advantage of keeping everything in the same package. The only disadvantage I can think of in relation to keeping everything in the same package is that the design layout might look a bit cluttered.
I'm tending to think one package here but would welcome comments and suggestions from those that have experience of similar design scenerios.
Thanks,
Clive
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Sep 12, 2007
Hi,
When I preview my Reporting Services Report in VS2005 the report uses 2 separate pages. Even when there is very little data on Page 1 it will display something on Page 2.
How do I get all data on the one page?
Thanks.
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Sep 11, 2007
I have had a lood through the forum but although folks seem to be having a lot of issues with layout I can't see a problem quite like this one.
We have a number of customer reports which need to be exported to PDF and to look quite smart. They are single page reports with things like address and customer info at the top, followed by the main report, all of which can have a variable number of rows. Then at the bottom is some supplementary information which can also vary quite substantially in size. All I want is for the main report to hug the top of the page and the supplementary one to hug the bottom of the page - and I only really care what it looks like in PDF format. The problem is that I can't seem to achieve this. As the area at the top expands the bottom section moves up and down the page. I'd be quite happy to set aside a fixed area at the bottom of the page for the supplementary report, but I can't even work out how to acheive that! You would think that the obvious answer would be to put it in to a footer, but for some reason you can't put data elements in to headers or footers (why?). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Jun 21, 2007
win server 2003
sql server 2005
Hi, I need to create a report with the following layout
f1title f2title f3title f4title f5title
+field1 field2 field3 field4 field5
clicking on the + will display
f6title f7title f8title f9title
field6 field7 field8 field9
is this possible?
If it is please describe how.
TIA
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Jun 28, 2007
Hello
I need to create something like the following table:
MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
01/01/07 02/01/07 03/01/07 04/01/07 05/01/07 06/01/07 07/01/07
Blank Field Blank Field Blank Field Blank Field Blank Field Blank Field Blank Field
08/01/07 09/01/07 10/01/07 11/01/07 12/01/07 13/01/07 14/01/07
Blank Field Blank Field Blank Field Blank Field Blank Field Blank Field Blank Field
The user would enter the start date, in this case the 1st Jan 07 and then this would populate a table. This seems like it should be so simple but I can't work it out, can anyone help please?
Cheers
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Jan 17, 2008
Hi to all,
My idea is to create one main report. Now, depending on the parameters the report is receiving, my matrix will shift and change groups/rows.
For example, using only one dataset:
Client1 sees only activities/costs
Client2 sees activity/costs/blabla1/blabla2
Client3 sees activity/costs/subtotal for costs/blabla1/blabla2/blabla3
Basically, without having to create various reports, I will have one major, dynamic report.
The best that I have accomplished is hiding the non-wanted column, although the end result isn€™t good.
Thanks in advanced, personally I think it€™s a good challenge€¦ Any suggestion?
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May 19, 2008
I am trying to change the Page size of the layout dynamically. Does anyone know if this is possible? If so can you point me in the right direction to find resources for this.
Thank you for any help.
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Jun 13, 2006
Is it possible to produce a report which is displayed as a calendar, similar to outlook?
im using rs2000 with no option of an upgrade to 2005
any help would be appreciated!
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Oct 28, 2007
Hi
report is required to show the salary levels of employees within the company sorted by department.
first page shows overall company details
rest of report is to show a chart and a matrix for each department -
initally did this as a top level report and a subreport - the sub-report was put inside a table - the table grouped on department - so each time the department changed, a different sub-report was generated
this worked fine - chart and matrix generated ok - but it was slow as the sub-report was calling the stored proc each time to get the same data
decided to re-do by putting the chart and the matrix into the top-level report table (instead of the sub-report)
this is alot faster (takes < 10% of time)
but
the matrix is causing the pagination to go wrong
the table has three equal size columns in it and is the width of the report (apart from margins)
if i make the matrix the width of one column (same width as it was in the subreport), it overflows when the matrix has > 5 columns
this was not happening in the sub-report
think the problem is that the matrix is expanding, it only expands the width of the column it is in - and so the table still has to draw the other two columns - which it does overflowing onto a new page
does this make sense ??
is there any work around for this ??
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May 4, 2007
Hi there,
I'm working on an invoice report, that requires borders around the whole report. I've got header, footer and body in the report. In the body section, i've got a table which shows line items for an invoice. So the table grows as per the no. of lines in the invoice. As said before I've got to have border around the report. I tried put info in ractangles with borders for header/footer and table with borders in body section. The borders appears fine for headers and footer ractangles but as the table grows/shrinks, border from body section is not continuous to the footer section. i.e. For an invoice with 2 line items the borders for table will appear for two lines only but i want it to be scratched up to the footer area regardless of no. of line items in the invoice.
I've also tried to use borders for header, footer and body sections itself rather than using ractangles. But then when i export the report to pdf and print from pdf, it looks fine but when i tried to print from report manger its missing right hand side border for page header, footer and body. I've made sure there is enough margin around report. Report body/header/footer are 19 cm wide that's mean the report still have 2 cm of space for margins. The left/right margin are 0.5 cm.
I've been trying to do various things for last 2 weeks but not getting anywhere. Can i anyone please help into this?
Thanks,
Vivek
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Nov 7, 2007
Hi,
I'm trying to deal with a way to change the report parameter's default layout.
currently it seems to default to two columns, that's fine until you have a large screen and the "View Report" button is all the way to the right and you have a big chunk of whitespace.
For Example:
Parameter 1 Parameter 2 <View Report>
Parameter 3
I'd like it to show up instead as:
Parameter 1 Parameter 2 Parameter 3 <View Report>
anyone ever tried this before?
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Apr 22, 2008
Hi all,
How can I design report to flow layout output?
Thank you very much
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May 3, 2007
Hi, all experts here,
Thanks a lot for your kind attention.
I have been trying to adjust the report regions fit into the whole report page. I could see the width and height property of the whole report page from the report property dialogue, but where can I find the width and height for the particular report region like the table? Then I could accordingly adjust the layout of both the report page and report region like table?
Hope my question is clear for your help.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
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Oct 31, 2007
Hi,
I am using SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services and Reporting Services with Visual studio 2005 Professional Edition. I have developed couple of reports in visual studio 2005 environment using report server project of business intelligence projects.
In one of my report I am using MDX query which is created using Query Builder of Report wizard. Once I finished with report wizard a report created and shown with data, layout and preview tabs. I can preview the report. But, when I click on data tab there is no MDX query exists. After that I can't even preview the report.
Please let me know how can I solve this issue
Thanks
Yaksh
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Sep 14, 2007
Hi All
I have a report that looks and works fine in the native 'screen layout' but when I select the Print Layout option, a blank page is inserted after each page. These blank pages contain the header and footer, but not the body section of the report. Has anyone else seen this sort of thing? Is there something in my report layout causing this, or is it a bug in the Print Layout rendering?
Thanks much
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Aug 22, 2005
I'm having problems with what is displayed in the browser being different to what is defined in the RDL and what is exported to PDF.
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Feb 26, 2007
Since SP2 was installed on our SSRS server a couple of days ago, reports viewed in the client Report Viewer control (with or without VS SP1) show a black background when in Print Layout Mode. All other rendering options work fine. Anyone else seen this? Any clues how to fix?
Thanks
Graeme
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Jan 4, 2007
I want to see all the fields list on the left side of report layout, you can drag a field and put it on the report.
Thank you very much.
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Aug 23, 2015
I use reporting services in designing my reports. now, I need to change the report layout  dynamically according to a parameter. how to do this.
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Nov 21, 2007
I designed a report in reporting services 2005. When i look at the view layout for the report everything is aligned correctly but if i go to print preview one matrix is shifted up or down. I have tried to put the matrix inside a rectangle but the issue is still present. Does anyone know why this is happening or any suggestions on what to do to fix it.
Thanks
Scott
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Mar 2, 2007
Hi,
I have a couple of reports that I created within the SQL Report Designer, I
would like to give the ability to the end user of C# Winform application to
be able to make modification to this .rdl file using the Report Builder,
however when I try and launch the report that I created within the Report
Designer using the Report builder I get the following error..
Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportBuilder.ReportModel.Report: The report
'http://localhost/ReportServer/MyReport)' cannot be opened because no data
source is associated with it. Associate a model data source with this report
and try again.
How can I resolve this situation.
I'm not sure if my approach is the best or if I'm I should be looking at the solution from another approach
Thanks
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May 3, 2008
I've got this data source that returns member information.. great.
I've got a function that when passed the member number and a month/
year returns days participating in the club.
I need to build a report that will output some of the columns for the
member, but then report other information for 6 months for each member
that all calulated based on days particpating for that month. Which 6
months will be dertimed by a single parameter passed to the report for
starting month/year... basically the next 6 months.
Is a matrix report a good option for this? Or should I just have the
function called 6 times in my data source? Ideally I layout the report
for one month and then *somehow* join in my data source for 6
iterations where month is 1 through 6.
Right now I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around how and where to
join the data? Especially if matrix and I have two data sources. I'm
also not sure I can call my function from cells in the matrix or if I
can even have mulitple data buckets in the matrix. I'm tempted to do
this the only way I know how, but I suspect there is a better way.
I've never built a matrix report in ssrs, any information or help is
appreciated.
Thank you!
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Aug 1, 2007
Hi every body
I have developed an reporting solution for a customer with reporting services and using report builder.
When he connect to http://localhost/reports , he see the page like
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/583/folderhl1.jpg
But i would to custom design of my default page, and other maybe. Where i can do it ?
Thanks all
Regards
Erwan Sarcelet, France
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Jan 19, 2007
All,
I have a report for a Quote print that has 1 table with 1 group in it by Quote #. The detail level is showing the line items on the quote and a second detail line for a sub report to show any notes. If the quote has 1 line on it, I am always getting a page break after the sub report even if it doesn't display anything.
The report shows the following:
Note each of these will contain a rectangle that the text boxes are displayed in unless it is a sub-report then no rectange.
Group header 1 - Address information
Group header 1 - contains a sub report for some notes
Group header 1 - Opening paragraph
Group header 1 - Blank line
Group header 1 - contains the line headings
Detail - contains the line details
Detail - contains the sub report for line notes
Detail - blank line for spacing
Group footer 1 - hidden based on expression
Group footer 1 - hidden based on expression ** One of these 2 lines will print based on the expression
Group footer 1 - sub report for more notes
Group footer 1 - Closing paragraph
Group footer 1 - Signature area
Group footer 1 - sub report for last page of terms / scope notes. NOTE: This sub report also contains a table and the table has a page break before so that I can get these on another page.
So, after # 8 above there is a page break. The remaining footers before # 14 easily fit on the rest of the page. The group 1 also has a page break at the end so it breaks between quotes. I have tried to insert a page break on the rectangle for # 13 and remove the page break on the sub report in # 14 but although everything fits it doesn't page break before the sub report.
It looks like it always page breaks after the last page in the sub report.
Any ideas on how to get around this?
Thanks in advance,
Sherry
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May 12, 2008
To maximize the number of names and phone numbers we can fit on a page, we'd like to have three or four columns of LastName, FirstName, Number on each page. The first column starts with the A's and goes down until the bottom of the page then goes back up to the top of the page in the second column. When the maximum number of columns (probably 3 or 4) is reached for one page, it starts again in the first column of the second page.
This is what we're looking for...
.style1
{width:83px;}
.style2
{width:77px;}
.style3
{width:65px;}
.style5
{width:82px;}
.style6
{width:79px;}
.style7
{width:62px;}
.style9
{width:71px;}
.style10
{width:70px;}
.style11
{width:113px;}
.style12
{width:129px;}
.style13
{width:70px;font-weight:bold;}
.style14
{width:71px;font-weight:bold;}
.style15
{width:129px;font-weight:bold;}
.style16
{width:62px;font-weight:bold;}
.style17
{width:79px;font-weight:bold;}
.style18
{width:82px;font-weight:bold;}
.style19
{width:113px;font-weight:bold;}
.style20
{width:65px;font-weight:bold;}
.style21
{width:77px;font-weight:bold;}
.style22
{width:83px;font-weight:bold;}
Page 1
LastName
FirstName
Number
LastName
FirstName
Number
LastName
FirstName
Number
Anderson
Fred
1234
Dalton
Mike
4567
Gladden
Tony
7890
Bailey
George
2345
Earl
Beth
5678
Hanks
Marideth
8901
Cox
Natalie
3456
Flake
Spencer
6789
Ingersol
Grace
9012
Page 2
LastName
FirstName
Number
LastName
FirstName
Number
LastName
FirstName
Number
Jackson
Frank
9234
Morrison
Ty
9567
Peters
Hank
9890
Klark
Missy
9345
Nickels
Al
9678
Quinn
Andy
9901
Little
Blake
9456
Oxnard
Will
9789
Rand
Phil
9112
Of course, it will take more rows of data to fill up a page, but this shows the basic idea of what we're trying to accomplish.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks.
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Jan 24, 2008
Any design suggestions for the best way to architect this report using SQL Reporting Services 2005 are appreciated!
My website features a catalog of roughly 50,000 items, each of which may be appear in a list of search results or in a detailed view. There are counters on the pages that update totals for such appearances and track other item-specific information in several tables in a SQL database. The catalog of items changes frequently, so the list of item IDs is never exactly the same from month to month.
I've been asked to produce a monthly report of this data for each of the items in the catalog, with reports for the current and previous months (for many years) accessible at all times. Some -- but not all -- items are useful for one purpose or another and so can be considered as belonging to a group of items. Although I have not yet been asked to create a report that aggregates the values for all Group members into a single report for that Group, I can clearly see it would be valuable and will be requested soon.
To ensure the report captures the data for an entire month, it must be run at the very end of each month. That means I will need to run the report using a Schedule that kicks off the process at 12:01am every 1st of the month. The report must be processed and stored for later retrieval and rendering on demand.
Considering the number of items and the indefinite length of time the report data must be retained, my question is really what's the best way to set all this up?
Should I create a report for each item separately? That would mean the scheduled task would have to somehow discover the current list of item IDs (which is available via query from the database) and create and process (but not render) a report for each (passing the item ID as a report parameter?), adding it to the report history. Although each report would be small take only a short time to run, overall that seems like it would take a long time to run and create a huge number of reports to store each month.
Or should I create a single 'master' report that contains all the data for every item for the month, and then use the item ID as a filter on the data when it is rendered? While that means only one report is created each month and added to the history, it would be a much larger report and take much longer to run (with more potential for timeouts and errors to scuttle the whole report). It also means all the data for the entire report has to be loaded every time the report is rendered, even though only 1/50,000 of the data (the data for 1 of the 50,000 items) will actually be viewed with any given rendering. But that would seem overly cumbersome, slow, and wastefully band-width intensive.
Any alternatives, suggestions, considerations, etc. -- all welcome!
Thanks
BillB
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Mar 5, 2008
Does anyone else have problems with the speed of the design environment for SSRS reports? We are using visual studio to create and manage hundreds of production reports (Oil and Gas).
It literally takes 5 seconds for the design environment to react to each change in the report layout. For instance, a common change is to reposition a text box, change the length, text, font size, font weight etc...:
Grab the text box - 5 seconds until designer responds - then reposition
Grab the edge to change the length - ditto
change text - 5 seconds for designer to "save" the change and allow next action....
blah - blah - blah....
So, performing the simple change above takes at least 30 seconds in addition to whatever time it took to edit the text box.
I've talked to the other developers using SSRS here and they all report that's "just the way it is".
Is this normal or is there an environment issue/setting we are overlooking.
Thanks, Mike
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Apr 24, 2015
On our project we export SSRS reports to Excel. Report Definition Language (RDL) enables you to use several measurement units (for example, inches, pixels, centimeters, and points) to specify position and size values. However, Excel uses only points. Therefore, the SSRS Excel rendering extension converts the height and width of the table, the heights of the rows, and the widths of the columns to points.
This process may include rounding some values. In this situation, the table height or width and the sum of the row heights or column widths are different. To compensate for the difference, the SSRS Excel rendering extension inserts a small row or column to the workbook.
To prevent that ‘hidden’ row or column, we configure the table height and width to a value specified in "pt" (points) rather than "cm". 1 cm is about 28 points. Is it possible to configure SSRS to use points by default while designing a report?
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Jan 30, 2007
I have a report requirement, i am new to reports.
I want to have two lines of column headers.( with 7 columns in parent columns header)
and 7 columns in child column header.
The first column header will show a parent record.
And after the parent record i want to show the next child related horizontal column headers and will show all child record related to the above parent record.
its a one to many: 1 parent record and below all child records for that parent record.
can i use subreports controls to show all child records of the parent.
Thank you very much for the information.
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Mar 6, 2008
How can i write diffrent Queries in Data set using If...Else Conditions at the time of report Design.
Regards.
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May 2, 2008
Hi,
I have a report in which a developper has put a matrix which has 4 MatrixRows.
I want to delete 2 of them.
When I righlt click a row and click Delete there is message about rows groups and columns groups and the row is still there.
When I right click the matrix and go to properties / group, i see Row group = [Static group] and I cannot modify it.
How can I delete a MatrixRow ?
a+, =)
-=Clement=-
Configuration :
SQL Server 2005
edit :
I found the solution : click on the cell in the 2nd column, not in the first, then right click and delete.
I would suggest Microsoft IT s to put less humor in their softs (you click delete in the wrong place, you get a weird message instead of a 'try another cell' )
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Nov 6, 2015
I have a report that I need to develop in landscape format. Also I need it to be landscape when converting to PDF and taking printouts. let me know the exact height and width measurements in inches for the report and report body?
I need the margin to be 0.5 inch.Â
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