I want to print detail lines flanked left and right by various master fields.
Example layout for a master record and its detail records:
masterAA detail line 1 masterBB
masterCC detail line 2 masterDD
detail line 3
detail line 4 masterEE
detail line 5
detail line 6
(repeated for the next master records)
The master data fields (masterAA to masterEE in the example) must be printed even if there are no detail data for a master record.
The master fields do not necessarily align with the detail fields due to font sizes and line heights of the master fields.
Can this be achieved by settings alone or by programming?
I have solved this by using a subreport (TfrxSubreport) for printing the detail lines.
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I would like to generate multiple page of a report. The number of pages would be defined in a variable from a Data Set.
example: if the variable is set to 5, the report would be generated in 5 copies (1/5, 2/5.. 5/5).
I'm using BIRT Report Designer 4.4.0.
The rest of the report is filled with other data that would stay the same in the n pages.
I managed to show the page number and the total number of pages (the variable) but didn't manage to generate that amount of pages.
I have no clue how to proceed, so until now, I only manage to generate 1 page.
You can use either a scripted data set or some SQL statement (for e.g. on Oracle something like this)
select rownum from user_objects where rownum <= :pi_num_copies
to create a "for-loop" data set.
I would try the following.
Insert (into the report) a Table binded to your Data Set with a
single column - your "NumberOfCopies" field.
Add Group for the NumberOfCopies.
Put your repeating n-times data to the Table Detail (you can replace the original field with it). Add fixed (for
every page) info to Group header and footer.
Set After property to Always in Page Break paramener
section for Group Footer (not for table's one!)
I guess it will work. If not - play around with Page Break options in Table Footer and Detail...
I have implemented tablix inside tablix concept. I done this with the help of following link.
I have one table A, that is holding other two tables B & C respectively. I have grouped these two tables with the help of Dept_Nbr from first table A.
What I want is:
I want to give page break in between two tables. For example, I have Dept_Nbr as 529 and 530. In one page, the two tables will show the records for 529 and in the other page the two tables will show the records for 530.
Now I want to show all these records in four pages. first table is in one page and second table is in other page for 529th Dept_nbr and vice versa for 530.
How to give Page break inside grouping.
What I tried is:
I gave Page Break on Group Properties, Hence Page is breaking in between two groups. But I want a page break inside a group itself.
Also I checked the check box on tablix properties i.e.., Add Page Break Before and Add Page Break After. But nothing gives the output as it is already in grouping.
Please guide me on the same. Thanks in advance.
Add a parent group to Table A that encompasses the rows containing Tables B & C. For this parent group, group on Department Number. Then, as part of the group properties, you can have it break between groups.
As your question and layout stands now, you're asking that the report break between detail rows. As far as I know, this is not possible.
Hopefully someone has done this - I need a 3 column page (side-by-side) with a two column table (with the headers) to fill the three columns. The table is fairly long and I need it to wrap/continue from the first column on the page to the second column and on to the third and then continue to the next page in the same fashion. Right now I can only get the table to show in one column on the page and it continues on the next page. The final output is a printed PDF page.
Using span="all" is the way to cause some in flow content to span all the columns of a multi-column document. For brevity in answering, I am posting a picture of the XSL FO for something like this.
I don't know if its possible or not, but thought I'd ask. Many times reports need data grouping to have anchored to the bottom of the report some summary information, such as invoices. You don't want the totals shifting UPwards based on only 2 detail lines vs another with 20. I've tried working with using the Tablix bound to the data source for the output but couldn't get it quite right... It would either shift up, or force break and appear at top of following page.
So, if anyone has some ideas to help resolve that, that too would be great.
My second approach was to just use a simple report page footer. However, the overall "Report" page is not technically "BOUND" to any datasource. So, if I put a textbox in the footer and want it to show something, I can't pick "the most recent row from the datasource associated with the Tablix", it always requires an aggregate, such as
=First(Fields!SomeField.Value, "SomeDataSource" )
=Sum( ...
=Last( ...
etc...
I just want it to have whatever was the most recent... so I tried to use report variables to create one and was thinking to have it get updated per row being processed, so it always had whatever the "latest" value was and I could just dump that value at the bottom of the report.
Any suggestions to either would be great. Thanks.
I know this is an old question, but I had a very similar problem and came up with a unique solution. I had a statement that needed to have the payment slip print at the bottom of the page even if the statement line items wrapped over to another page. I solved it by:
Making all rows in the report a uniform height.
Calculating how many rows were required to fill the page (minus the height of my payment slip.
Getting the number of line items in the statement.
Calculating the remaining number of rows needed to push my payment slip to the bottom of the page.
Adding a sub-report with the calculated number of blank rows to pad out the necessary space between the line items and the payment slip.
The advantage of that approach was that I could generate bills for multiple customers, and since the padding is part of the group it would be customized for each customer's bill and bottom-justify the pay slip for each of them.
You can use a similar approach to push your "footer" info to the bottom of your page. Since it is still inside of your data group you'll have access to the data values you need as well.
In the footer you can refer to report item from report body, like this:
=ReportItems!myFooterValueTextBox.Value
The catch is that you can refer to only one report item in your footer, so you may need to add invisible footer row in your table and concatenate all your totals into one cell (myFooterValueTextBox) in that row:
=First(Fields!SomeField.Value, "SomeDataSource") + "|" +
Sum(...) + "|" + .... +
Last(...)
I used pipe as deliminator in my example, so then in the footer, I would split the string and place values in appropriate containers, like this:
=Split(ReportItems!myFooterValueTextBox.Value,"|")(0)
I would like to make a report which will print a table of results and for each row there will be the data and the graph displayed. How to display the graph for each row? The graph should use different data than are displayed in the row.
Should I use another Detail section or Subreport?
A sub-report can make sense if you want to use a separate query to retrieve your data.
If you can get all the data for both the results displayed in a table row plus the data for the graph, then simply add a chart element into the detail section.
(Note that there is only one detail section, so you can't add 'another Detail section')