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)
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I am trying to display counts (and other formulas) for only the records being displayed.
When I put count #Field in the report (wherever I put it) I get too many records. I have no suppression formulas present.
I do have formulas in Select Expert, Record. However, I understood that counts should work after these formulas have been applied.
The total number of records showing at the bottom of the report is 799999. When I use count #Field I also get 799999. However, when I export information in Details into excel I get 28140. This is the number of rows of data displayed and what I need to get count etc on.
I have looked at numerous posts re "whileprintingrecords" and "runningtotals" but cannot seem to get anything to work and not sure what I need to do and where?
Thanks
Ian
In your page footer section place text field and there you can place special field
and using that "record number" in page footer you can access number of records until that page.
So on page 1 there could be
Record 5 of 799999
on page 2
Record 12 of 799999
etc...
I have a DataTable that I'm passing to a FlexCel report. It contains a variable number of columns, so I'm using the Full Dataset feature (e.g. <#table_name.*>).
However, only a subset of the fields are dynamically generated (I have a variable number of attachments). The column name for each attachment field starts with a common word (e.g. "Attachment0", "Attachment1", etc).
What I would like to do is output the known finite set of fields and then the variable number of attachments. It would be nice if I could write something like <#table_name.Attachment*> (and <#table_name.Attachment**>). Is there any way in FlexCel Reports I can achieve the same result?
A side benefit to such a solution means that I could keep the formatting for the known/finite set of fields.
Update
I added place holder columns to the document, each with a <#delete column> tag, so that the un-wanted columns/data are removed.
Although this works, it's not ideal. For example, if I want to see how the columns fit in the page width (in print preview), then I need to hide the columns. Then I have to remember to un-hide them again, so other developers can see/understand my handy work.
It would be much more straight forward if I could filter the fields before they're output to the document.
I realised there's an alternate way around this problem. I broke up the data into two sets of data - <#table_name.*> and <#table_name_attachments.*>.
The fixed set of fields are in the first table and the variable set of fields is in the second table (all the "Attachment*" fields). When the report is run, I place them next to each other (in the same order) in the same worksheet. This means I have two table ranges - "_table_name_" and "_table_name_attachments_" on the one sheet.
Now I'm able to run my print preview without hiding/re-showing the columns-to-be-deleted. I've also eliminated human error - it was all to easy to accidentally set the wrong number of padded/delete columns.
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.
being a newbie to SSRS, I am trying to figure out the following:
say for instance I have a dataset which does a :
SELECT [cols...] from [some view]
I want to be able to further filter this based on parameters given from an ASP.NET site (I am using the AJAX control toolkit for the report viewer). There could be x amount of parameters and potentially can be filtered on 1 or more columns.
First question is, how would I filter the dataset and pass along the parameters along with which field the filter should apply to? I may have [col1] and I want to filter it with x values.
Second question Is, I want to be able to group the results per page based upon a column. So for each grouped result set, I want them to be displayed per page (per group per page).
Then on the headers of the page, I want it to display what the page grouping is. How would I do this?
In terms of what have I tried - nothing as I DO NOT KNOW HOW, it is why I am asking the question here to see what the experts (you) can suggest and guide me.
thank you!
To do this you can create Parameters in SSRS, they do not need to be in your query or anything. Then, go to your tablix and click either ROW or column depending on the filter type and set it show/hide visibility. For example I have a report that has personal information, so i have true/false parameter that hides/shows those columns, similar I have one that hides/shows any row with a -1 for the total paid.
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.