How To Hide A Dynamic Column During Runtime?.. Help Please...
Mar 2, 2007
im working on a report which shows the data based on the users input. I have used a matrix because I have no control on how many fields the users want, so practically we have a dynamic column here. My problem is that they require me to able the user to hide the columns he/she wishes to during runtime. We have a previous report that enables the user to hide it during runtime but it has static column. Any idea on how I could do it?... Thank you so much...
I have a report that comes with one main image and 15 other images that needs to be visible as needed at fixed position to the main image. Adding all the images is easy but managing the visibility is not working. What is the best way to do it? I am looking for sample but have come up empty.
I have a project where there are millions of records. For sake of example, let's use the White Pages.
One of the reports my client wants generated is a contact list. The contact list contains name, address, city, state, zip, phone, and several other key data elements.
Naturally, the client wants to be able to sort on each of those elements (easy to do.)
They also want to be able to filter the resultset the report shows, dynamically, at runtime (not so easy, I'm finding).
So, for example, one person may want to run the report and have the results only show people in PA. Another person may run a report and show all the people who are in Boston, MA. Yet another person may want everyone with the last name of "Smith".
Ultimately, the client wants to be able to filter results by virtually every day field displayed on the report (and some fields which are not!)
I've dug around the documentation for Reporting Services, and I readily admit I am a newbie. I cannot see any way to dynamically filter the resultset used to generate the report, other than using "Report Parameters".
The problem with Report Parameters, from what I can tell, is they also require me to have scalar expressions in a WHERE clause in the dataset. So, for example, if I wanted to let people filter on lastname, I would need a "WHERE LASTNAME LIKE @LastNameReportParameter" -- which works ok, as long as the parameter isn't null, of course, so I really have to do something like 'WHERE LastName LIKE ISNULL(@LastNameReportParameter, '%')"
With, literally, a dozen different fields on this report, I don't see where that is a real option -- I literally have to program a WHERE clause that has a dozen elements, some of which are numeric (not alpha), and thus LIKE doesn't work (AGE = 37) unless I get into completed gyrations (WHERE ISNULL(CAST(AGE AS VARCHAR), '') LIKE ISNULL(@AgeParameter, '%')
This seems to be incredibly complicated, and I cannot imagine there isn't an easier way to allow users to filter the resultsets on the reports generated by Report Server. Is there something I am missing?
Also, it has to be something I can address programatically, since the client wants a fairly 'seamless' front end (in C#) where users can simply click a radio button (to select a field to filter by) and type in a value (to filter on) prior to displaying the report in a reportviewer control.
Is there a way to dynamically program a filter expression and pass it to the report server, something akin to a filter expression on a BindingSource?
Any thoughts on this matter would be helpful, or pointers to online documentation, as I'm sort of out of ideas and cannot find anything in the docs. Thanks!
I've seen a number of posts similar to this but i still cannot figure out what i need to do to get it working. So here goes with a couple of newbie questions.
Question 1: Once created how do i go about executing a SSIS package. I want to be able to call it from a C# application from which i pass in a couple of parameters?
Question 2: How do i go about setting the file path of my Excel source to a dynamic value passed at runtime. I want to be able to loop through a number of Excel files and do some processing on them. I've set up a variable (which i think i need to do) after that i get stuck however. Some other posts suggest configuration packages but i cannot get my head around how they work?
Any help on this matter would be gratefully recieved.
I'm creating a report that is grouping the rows per year and month, as it does this there are certain rows that show up that I would like to hide since the value in one of the columns is < = 0. For the purpose of my report I don't needs these rows to be illustrated. How can I do this?
I have a matrix that has the following columns:Date Shift Equipment1 Equipment2 Equipment3 etcBased on a parameter, i want to show/hide the Shift column. If the Shift column is hidden, i want to move the equipment columns over so there is no gap in the columns.I know you can do this in a table by hidding the whole column, but how do you do this in a matrix? when i try to hide the column the visibility option is not there, and when i hide the field, it leaves a gap in the report.Thanks for your help.
I got your email address from your web cast. I really enjoyed the web cast and found it to be very informative.
Our company is planning to use SSIS (VS 2005 / SQL Server 2005). I have a quick question regarding the product. I have looked for the information on the web, but was not able to find relevant information.
We are getting Source data from two of our client in the form of Excel Sheet. These Excel sheets Are generated using reporting services. On examining the excel sheet, I found out that the name Of the columns contain data itself, so the names are not static such as Jan 2007 Sales, Feb 2007 Sales etc etc. And even the number of columns are not static. It depends upon the range of date selected by the user.
I wanted to know, if there is a way to import Excel sheet using Integration Services by defining the position Of column, instead of column name and I am not sure if there is a way for me to import excel with dynamic Number of columns.
Your help in this respect is highly appreciated!
Thanks,
Hi Anthony, I am glad the Web cast was helpful.
Kamal and I have both moved on to other teams in MSFT and I am a little rusty in that area, though in general dynamic numbers of columns in any format is always tricky. I am just assuming its not feasible for you to try and get the source for SSIS a little closer to home, e.g. rather than using Excel output from Reporting Services, use the same/some form of the query/data source that RS is using.
I suggest you post a question on the SSIS forum on MSDN and you should get some good answers. http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=80&siteid=1 http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=80&siteid=1
I have a report using a matrix component and I wanted to hide the first column which is the rows group and I don't know how to do it. Please help. Thanks in advance.
Is there a way to hide a column if there is no data for that column? Suppose that I have a SP (lets call it wrapper) which will call multiple SP's. But for any one run, there'll be only one SP which is called. But the columns returned by these SP's is obviously different. So, in order to accomodate the output, can I create a table, add all the possible columns to it, and set the properties of the individual columns such that they will be hidden if there is no data in them? Example, SP 1 returns - ServerName, Location, OS ; SP 2 returns ServerName and location only. Now if the wrapper SP calls only the second SP (SP 2) can I configure in such a way that the third column (OS) is not displayed at all? (In normal cases, it would appear but without any data in it)...
Hello, I tie up columns with parameters.what ever column are selected only those column should be displayed. Now my parameter are string data type. I write this expression in column-->propertyvisibility--> hide-->Expression
in the Visibility property for the relevant column, but it doesn't make any difference. The column still shows up even if the Rate parameter is set to Null or zero. I only want the column to show if the user enters a value in the Rate parameter which is greater than zero.
I am using Reporting Services 2000. If you find out that Reporting Services 2005 would resolve this issue, please lemme know also. But I want to mention that I would prefer a way to fix this without changing Reporting Services versions.
I have a table that has a group on ProductTypes. This group is set to PageBreak at end. What I need to do is to conditionally hide an entire column based on the current group's ProductType.
Can you help me figure this one out ? I've tried everything I found on the net, especially everything on this page : http://blogs.msdn.com/chrishays/rss.xml
I want to send a reports to two person. Reports are going to be delivered automatically. I hope to use snapshot option. In my report there is one column which can be seen by only one person. Can I use parameters to hide one column from one person? If its possible, can you explain how to do that please. If its not possible, what are the other option excet creating two different reports. Also If I use parameters , can reports be executed automatically? Thanks
Hello all,I m trying to add a column in my database (it is a csv file)but it is giving me following exception.------exception------------{System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException}ErrorCode: -2147467259Errors: {System.Data.OleDb.OleDbErrorCollection}HelpLink: NothingInnerException: NothingMessage: "Operation not supported on a table that contains data."Source: "Microsoft JET Database Engine"StackTrace: " atSystem.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextE rrorHandling(Int32 hr)atSystem.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandTextF orSingleResult(tagDBPARAMSdbParams, Object& executeResult)at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommandText( Object& executeResult)at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteCommand(Comm andBehavior behavior,Object& executeResult)at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteReaderIntern al(CommandBehaviorbehavior, String method)at System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()Here is my code for this.--------Code--------------Dim ConnectString As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;DataSource=c:;Extended Properties=""text;HDR=Yes;FMT=Delimited"""Dim myCon As New OleDbConnection(ConnectString)TrymyCon.Open()'Debug.WriteLine("Connection Opened")Dim cmd As New OleDbCommandcmd.CommandText = "ALTER TABLE [sample.csv] ADD mycol VARCHAR(50) NULL"cmd.Connection = myConcmd.ExecuteNonQuery()Catch ex As OleDbExceptiondebug.WriteLine(ex.Message)FinallymyCon.Close()End TryAny known reasons and workarounds????Thanks & Regards.
I am have this problem, that would not go away, can some please help me. I want to rename or delete column that is bound to a tableadapter using SQL Express at runtime. is it possibleI have no idea on what to do.
Is it possible to show or hide columns in a report on the fly, i.e. without having to run the report again?
I have a report in with a parameter to let the user choose between the data to show. However the customer doesn't like it that he has to rerun the report. Any help would be appreciated!
Dear All,I'm facing a problem with creating a view.I have a table withfollowing descriptionTab1------------------------------------Col1 col2---- -----Val1 TomVal2 CatVal3 JackVal4 JimNow I'm trying to create a view with following information fromTab1.The output should beTab1View--------------------------------------Col1 Col2 Col3---- ---- -----1 Val1 Tom2 Val2 Cat3 Val3 Jack4 Val4 Jim---------------------------------------So the create view statement add this column dynamically in thisresult set.If any body has any doubt on this query please let me inform.RegardsArijit Chatterjee
Hi -- I am fairly new to SSIS development, although I am starting to appreciate it more an more, especially since I have started getting into extending the object model. Here's my question:
I have a data flow that pulls data from any number of different delimited files with different numbers of columns. I have had no problem dealing with setting up run-time file locations and file names by using the expressions of a flat file data source, and i have been able to pretty easily deal with varying file delimiters by standardizing the files before they get into the data flow. however, I have not been able to come up with a solution that will allow my data source to discover its column info at run time, and then pass that information on to the data flow task. all i really care about is being able to properly parse the individual rows into individual column data by the flat file data source because the data flow itself is able to discover the actual data that the columns hold at run-time.
i would very much appreciate any feedback from anyone on possible solutions for this.
when i tried to run a DTS which transfer bulk data between 2 SQL servers, i got following error message: ================================================== ============ Error: -2147467259 (80004005); Provider Error: 4815 (12CF) Error string: Received invalid column length from bcp client. Error source: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Help file: Help context: 0 ================================================== ===========
if anybody has encounter the same problem before? after testing, i think it's must related with network traffic problem. but i can not figure out how to solve it.
I am trying to find a way to provide three metrics for a table that only provides 2 of them. I need to derive a third column which tallies based on conditions that can be found in the dataset.
The table I'm querying shows
(1) total referrals (2) total moves
but it is missing a column that tallies whenever the referral moved into the same property_id that it was referred to.
How can I use sql to create one additional column for the above data set, ie. let's call it 'property_conversion' such that on the fifth row there will be a '1' showing that on 2012-12-30 lead_id 10038655 moved into the property it was referred to back on 2012-10-15 ?
Hi there, I am a new member of this site and I am not very much aware of T-sql's working. My question is what if I need to get one column's data to be the heading of another column. To be very exact I have a school's database. The table I am talking about is of the results of students. The table contains Student ID, Subject ID, Total marks of the subject, Marks obtained in the subject. Now I want to print a report by generating data from this table. Right now the data is something like this StuID - - - SubID - - - -Tot - - -Obt 1 - - - - - - -1 - - - - - - -50 - - - 38 1 - - - - - - -2 - - - - - - -50 - - - 41 1 - - - - - - -3 - - - - - - -50 - - - 42 1 - - - - - - -4 - - - - - - -50 - - - 40 2 - - - - - - -1 - - - - - - -50 - - - 35 2 - - - - - - -2 - - - - - - -50 - - - 40 2 - - - - - - -3 - - - - - - -50 - - - 42 2 - - - - - - -4 - - - - - - -50 - - - 41
StudentID and SubjectID fields are related to other tables so I can get the names from there but when I need the report I need the data in the form of StuID - Sub 1 - - - Sub 2 - - - Sub 3 - - - -Sub4 1 - - - - 38 - - - - - - 41 - - - - - - 42 - - - - - - 40 2 - - - - 35 - - - - - - 40 - - - - - - 42 - - - - - - 41
The Subjects can be different for different students so the query should be dynamic instead of hard coding the names of the subjects. I hope I am clear with my question. The subjectIDs or their names will become the headings and they will contain the obtained marks for that subjects in their columns just for the reports. I have also checked the PIVOT function but was not able to do what I wanted. Thanks.
I am having a Data flow task in For each loop which will gets 100 sourcetable names and 100 target table names...
am having a simpleData flow task which trasferes from OLEDBSource to OLEDBDestination. I am repeating the Dataflow task which transfers from sourcetablename extracted from for loop to a destination table var.
The problem am gettting is for the first table it is able to transfer correcly because I did mapping for those tables at design time...but for the next coming sourcetable-desttable (which r having different no of cols,datatypes) its giving Validation failed...and...needs to refresh metadata....
is there any way to refresh the metadata of Data flow task (I set the property of OLEDBSource validate external meta to false then also same error is coming)
I was wondering if anyone has an idea of how we could find the table names and column names of the tables in our Sql server database at runtime/dynamically given our connection string? Please let me know.
Hello,I'm still extremely novice to SQL and I've tried googling how to produce this result but I've been encountering a lot dynamic sql commands which isn't exactly what I want. If this is an ignorant question I do apologize but heres my scenario: I have a table with columns of the day, for instance: Monday_hasData (bit)Monday_DataAnd what I want to do is essentially pass in "Monday" as a parameter and rather than doing an If statement on each row, I would like to just like to do something like assign @dayCheck + "_hasData" to a variable and then use @dayCheck as part of my query. Is this possible or am I going to have to have 7 cases? Thank you for any input,Chance
Hi All I want to rename the column name by using the dynamic value as like declare @name as varchar(12) set @name='ss' sp_rename 'dbo.employees.id3',@name, 'COLUMN'; go but it shows the error Incorrect syntax near 'sp_rename'. any idea?
Hi is possible to create dynamic column name example Declare @StartDate as dateTime Select @StartDate = '2004-06-05'
select SUM(Case When table1_date BETWEEN dateadd(day,-6,@StartDate) and @StartDate then 1 else 0 end)AS [dateadd(day,-6,@StartDate)], SUM(Case When table1_date BETWEEN dateadd(day,-13,@StartDate) and dateadd(day,-7,@StartDate) then 1 else 0 end)AS [dateadd(day,-13,@StartDate)] from table1
