Using A Textbox's Value For Format Expression Of Other Textboxes
May 3, 2007
I'm calculating the format string for currency values based upon what's selected as a report currency parameter value. Just to mention, it's a call to a .net dll. Because this call is in every textbox in the details section of the report,I believe it's getting called for every textbox that is displayed on the report - but I really don't need to calculate it at this level. The format string will only be one way per report execution.
Is it possible to only call this function once, stuff the format expression in a textbox (or some method that's similar) and then reference that ReportItems!textbox3.Value for the format string of other textboxes? I threw the calculation in a textbox in the report header and also body, but I get an issue either way:
Report item expressions can only refer to other report items within the same grouping scope or a containing grouping scope
I understand that it doesn't seem possible, but can anyone help me think out of the box? I see that a database call and another dataset holding the FormatString might work... I'll try this out, but in the meantime, is there a solution to not do this?
Is there any way in Reporting Services (2005) to set the Top and Left properties of the TextBox control with an expression? What I would like to do is use two integer report parameters, and alter these properties based on the parameters.
In SQL Reporting Services - How can you configure a textbox (in a table row/cell) to display (and more importantly print to hard copy) an underline area that is "appended" to the end of variable length text. The objective is to be able to print out a form with an identified area for handwritten text entry. I need the underlined area for the textbox to be "right aligned". For example,
Customer Satisfaction Were you satisfied with the service(s) received? _________________________________________ How long did the service call take? ____________________________________________________ Would you recommend us to your friends? _____________________________________________
I've recently started using reporting services after about a 2 year break and have been refreshing my knowledge. I've got a very simple report linked into MS CRM, the report is designed to display cases that are overdue, displaying green colums for cases less that 2 hours old, orange for 2 - 4 hours and red for over 4 hours.
In the backgroundColor field for the details colums I have this code-
Code Snippet
=iif(Fields!Hours_Neglected.Value < 2, "Green", iif(Fields!Hours_Neglected.Value > 4, "Red", "Goldenrod")) this works fine in the preview window in VS2005 but when I try to deploy I get this error:-
"Warning 1 [rsRuntimeErrorInExpression] The BackgroundColor expression for the textbox ticketnumber contains an error: Input string was not in a correct format. G:AppsVisual Studio 2005ProjectsCRM ReportsCRM ReportsNo Responce.rdl 0 0"
Can anyone shed any light on what this problem is as I'm struggling to find anything online......
On a Reporting Services 2005 report, I have a table with a single group row and a single detail row (and about 5 columns). The details are set up to toggle visibility based on a textbox in the group header called "txt_Order_Number". The order line item details are set with their initial visibility set as hidden. So, when you click on the Plus sign next to the Order Number, the detail rows display below.
However, what I'd like to do is change the background color of the toggled group header row when it is toggled and the details are displayed. Here's what's going on . . .
The row with the Order header information has every textbox set in bold. That's good. It makes a subtle distinction between the order detail rows and the order header row, so when you're looking at the dollar amounts on each line item and trying to add them up in your head to see whether they correctly add up to the dollar amount in the order header row, you can at least more easily see the total amount. However, it makes the whole overall report look funny because all of the order header information is in bold. What I really want to do is change the background color of the order header row to light gray or some other subtle color and change the font to Bold when the details are toggled to visible in order to distinguish that row as the header row.
In order to do this, I think I somehow need to get to a certain element of the Reporting Services object model called "Textbox.ToggleState". If I can get to that piece of the puzzle in an expression or even in code within the report, that should tell me the state of the textbox's toggle switch and I should be able to use that information to conditionally set the color of the textbox.(or every textbox in the row probably.) Here's all I could find out about this on TechNet
I just can't figure out how to get to that piece of information in a Reporting Services expression or in the report's code block.
Any suggestions? I'd appreciate a response even if it's "You can't do that." Actually, the best response someone might be able to provide might be a link to a sample showing how to get to any of the textbox properties like that.
A report is picking up some values from the body and displaying them in text boxes within the Page Header, via the ReportItems collection. The text boxes within the body have their format specified as #,###; (#,###) - so displaying negative values within brackets. If the following value is set for the Page Header text box:
="My Value" & " " & ReportItems!variance.Value
the value displayed is, for example:
(My Value (1,123
Hence the requested trailing bracket has been swapped to become a leading bracket. Whatever I've tried I cannot get the bracket in the correct place. Am I missing something obvious or is this a bug?
I have an expression based upon 2 fields in a view that I want to be able to divide and then multiply by a number. Whenever I do the division portion of the calculation all I get are 0 & 1's. I was hoping to use the percentage in other calculations. Is there something similar to FORMAT(X/Y,0.00)?
(vwLbrPosSum.PosMin/vwMinByEmp.TotMin) x (a)vwLbrPosSum.PosMin or (b) 2400 or (c)vwMinbyEmp.TotMin - 2400 If the person worked more than 40 hrs I could allocate the OTMins to the different positions in labor reporting.
I would like to generate a file name according to the current date, like 20070716.TXT. In expression, the function Month(Getdate()) will return 7 instead of 07.
Can anyone advise me if I can enter an expression into the format property of a field, so the date is displayed as dd/mm/yyyy ?
It is currently mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss
I have been trying with convert and FormatDateTime, but can't seem to get this to work in the Report layout editor. I would like to know how to do it here, rather than changing my query.
Hello everyone I'm new with Reporting services, so my problem is that i want to show what filter the user enter exemple : Data between 12/1/2007 and 4/20/2008
I did all that with this statement :
= "Briefing between "+ Parameters!FromDate.Value+ " and " +Parameters!ToDate.Value
but when i want to dispaly another filter it doesn't show up like this :
= "Briefing between "+ Parameters!FromDate.Value+ " and " +Parameters!ToDate.Value IIf( Parameters!Company.Value!="",Parameters!Company.Value,"")
I am sorry i have to jump up into Sql reporting service without a good skills on expressions
I am trying to configure the SelectedDatabases property of the Reorganize Index Task using an expression.
The Expressions property of the task provides the ability to configure the SelectedDatabases property of the task using an expression. The properties pane shows that the type of the SelectedDatabases property should be a "(Collection)" (which is edited using the 'Object Collection Editor').
How do I create an expression to configure the SelectedDatabases property? Can I build the collection in text? Or do I need to provide a variable of type System.Object that contains a collection type (and if so exactly what type should it contain)?
Hello, I have this expression DATEDIFF(HOUR, startdate,enddate) which only shows the hours. I need to show the hours and minutes too , exp. 9.17. Any way to convert the expression to do this. The startdate and enddate fields are mm/dd/yyy hh:mms. I am using report builder.
I am using the following expression to place the month in the heading of a column.
=MonthName(Month(DateAdd("M",-1,Now)))
The expression above gives me the previous month, but I need to have it as "Jan", not "January".
expression that will give me the three character month name instead of the full month. Â I've tried substituting the "M" with "MMM", but get an error. Â I've also tried "Mon", but again, I get an error.
I have a decimal data type column with a record in the following format 20150219 --> yyyyMMdd. And I am trying to convert the return value from SSRS date/time parameter to a decimal value.
The TMDTOP column is the decimal data type with date records in yyyyMMdd format.
We are using SSRS 2012. We have a report that conditionally formats a background color for some cells. The report renders properly in a browser and in Excel 2003 format. In Excel format all cells after the first one that meets the condition are highlighted, even if only one cell should.
The sample expression that triggers this condition looks like this: =IIF(Fields!VIOL_NOTE.Value="Internal","Green","No Color")
All cells after the first one that meets the condition Fields!VIOL_NOTE.Value="Internal" have a green background.
hi, now theres something i want to achieve but, again dont know how :-( In a grid of my site it needs to be able to select an item, ( not with checkboxes) but maybe when you click on the item in the FromName column then the data in the column in my database messageTEXT needs to be able to show in a textbox.( textbox is outside of grid) now i was thinking that maybe it is need to be done with datareaders or something? Greetz Roy
Hello Everyone. I need help again. I have a reports made in VS business intelligence project with a lot of parameters. So it means it automatically creates textboxes of that parameters. I want to hide those textboxes. Pls help.
Can anyone advise me how to force paragraph breaks in a textbox in Reporting Services 2000? I've tried Shift + Enter and in layout view it forces a paragraph break, but as soon as the report is rendered, the breaks disappear.
Is there a way to reference textboxes in an SSRS table like one would for cells in Excel? For example, something like =textbox1/textbox2? I am trying to replace a spreadsheet by turning it into an automated report and need to do some horizontal formulas and when I put in the grouped total, it always defaults to averaging percetages from the rows above, which isnt a true summary in my case.
Hi I'm new to all of this. I have a database that holds customer information (fictitious) and i can select that data and display it in a set of textboxes. I also have an SQL command "UPDATE" that is designed to update the text field that i want to edit. However the problem i'm having is that it'll let me write the info in the textbox but as soon as i click my update button it just flashses and goes back to what it says before e.g. FIRST NAME: LEE i enter TOM and then it reverts it back to LEE 1 2 Partial Class Update 3 Inherits System.Web.UI.Page 4 5 Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load 6 custIDTextBox.Text = Session("Label2") 7 8 Dim updatepage As System.Data.DataView = CType(SqlDataSource1.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments.Empty), System.Data.DataView) 9 10 For Each update As Data.DataRow In updatepage.Table.Rows 11 12 firstnameTextbox.Text = update.Item("First Name").ToString 13 lastnameTextBox.Text = update.Item("Last Name").ToString 14 addressTextBox.Text = update.Item("Address Line 1").ToString 15 townTextBox.Text = update.Item("Town").ToString 16 postcodeTextBox.Text = update.Item("Postcode").ToString 17 telephoneTextBox.Text = update.Item("Tel Number").ToString 18 19 Next 20 21 End Sub 22 23 Protected Sub updatebutton_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles updatebutton.Click 24 25 'Dim parameters firstnameTextBox, lastnameTextBox, addressTextBox, townTextBox, postcodeTextBox, telephoneTextBox 26 'Dim UpdateParameters As QueryStringParameter 27 28 SqlDataSource1.Update() 29 SqlDataSource1.UpdateParameters.Add("@CustomerDetails", System.TypeCode.String) 30 'SqlDataSource1.UpdateParameters.Add("@Last Name", System.TypeCode.String) 31 'SqlDataSource1.UpdateParameters.Add("@Address line 1", System.TypeCode.String) 32 'SqlDataSource1.UpdateParameters.Add("@Town", System.TypeCode.String) 33 'SqlDataSource1.UpdateParameters.Add("@Postcode", System.TypeCode.String) 34 'SqlDataSource1.UpdateParameters.Add("@Tel Number", System.TypeCode.String) 35 36 'Label2.Text = ("Update successful") 37 End Sub 38 End Class 39
This is my SQL UPDATE command statement: UPDATE CustomerDetails SET [First Name] = @firstnameTextBox, [Last Name] = @lastnameTextBox, [Address line 1] = @addressTextBox, Town = @townTextBox, Postcode = '@postcodeTextBox', [Tel Number] = '@telephoneTextBox'
In the report I am working on, I have a "textbox39" in a table which has groups. I want to have another "textbox29" outside the table to count the number of "textbox39"s that are actually displayed and also the number of "textbox1"s that have a certain value (e.g. "1") in the final report. I tried to use "Sum(ReportItems!textbox39.Value)" but the compiler complains
Error 1 [rsAggregateReportItemInBody] The Value expression for the textbox 'textbox29' uses an aggregate function on a report item. Aggregate functions can be used only on report items contained in page headers and footers. d:perfperfreportingprojectPerformanceTestDetails v.3.rdl 0 0
Error 7 [rsReportItemReference] The Value expression for the textbox textbox29 refers to the report item textbox39. Report item expressions can only refer to other report items within the same grouping scope or a containing grouping scope. d:perfperfreportingprojectPerformanceTestDetails v.3.rdl 0 0
Anybody has any idea how to solve it? Thanks so much, Zhiyan
Hi! I dont know if i will explain this correctly, but my problem is with reporting service. I'm supposed to Sum value in one textbox and than that sum use it in sum in other textbox.
Something like this: Sum(Fields!Abc.Value/(Fields!dfg.Value+Sum(Fields!abc.Value)),"matrix1_RowGroup1")*100 I get error msg 'The Value expression for the textbox 'textbox49' contains an aggregate function (or RunningValue or RowNumber functions) in the argument to another aggregate function (or RunningValue). Aggregate functions cannot be nested inside other aggregate functions.'
Something like this wont work either Sum(Fields!abc.Value/ReportItems("textbox56").Value)*100 Error The Value expression for the textbox 'textbox55' uses an aggregate function on a report item. Aggregate functions can be used only on report items contained in page headers and footers.
So, pls help if you know how to reference textbox in other in body of report. Thx.
Error 3 Error loading MLS_AZ_PHX.dtsx: The result of the expression ""C:\sql_working_directory\MLS\AZ\Phoenix\Docs\Armls_Schema Updated 020107.xls"" on property "ConnectionString" cannot be written to the property. The expression was evaluated, but cannot be set on the property. c:documents and settingsviewmastermy documentsvisual studio 2005projectsm l sMLS_AZ_PHX.dtsx 1 1
Directly using C:sql_working_directoryMLSAZPhoenixDocsArmls_Schema Updated 020107.xls as connectionString works
However - I'm trying to deploy the package - and trying to use expression: @[User::DIR_WORKING] + "\Docs\Armls_Schema Updated 020107.xls" which causes the same error to occur
(Same error with other Excel source also: Error 5 Error loading MLS_AZ_PHX.dtsx: The result of the expression "@[User::DIR_WORKING] + "\Docs\Armls_SchoolCodesJuly06.xls"" on property "ConnectionString" cannot be written to the property. The expression was evaluated, but cannot be set on the property. c:documents and settingsviewmastermy documentsvisual studio 2005projectsm l sMLS_AZ_PHX.dtsx 1 1 )
I have created 1 report with 2 datasets. This report is attached to the 1st dataset.For example,1st one is "Smallappliances", 2nd is "Largeappliances".
I created a tablix and, the 1st column extracts Total sales per Sales person between 2 dates from 1st dataset (Small appliances). I used running values expression and it works fine.
Now, I would like to add another column that extracts Total sales per sales person between 2 dates from 2nd dataset (Large appliances). I am aware that I need to use Lookup expression and it is giving me the single sales value rather than the total sales values. So, I wanted to use RunningValue expression within lookup table to get total sales for large appliances.
This is the lookup expression that I added for the 2nd column.
I get this error when I preview the report.An error occurred during local report processing.The definition of the report is invalid.An unexpected error occurred in report processing.
Im trying to display data from a database based on an input value. The value in the Label12.Text which is("hotmail") is the input value thats stored in the database, this value is been searched for in the strSQL. Dim strSQL As String = "SELECT Name FROM Jobseeker WHERE Email='" & Label12.Text & "' " strSQL = Label5.Text
the code builds successfully, but Label5.Text appears blank.
