I'm working on a report in SSRS 2005 that is a questionnaire with yes/no answers. Trying to get a checkbox on the report. Have tried using windings for the font and an iif statement to set the character, but that doesn't come out correctly when exporting to PDF. I'm using local reports, not from a report server.
The easiest/simplest solution is just to use an embedded image with a expression which sets the source of the image to the checked or not checked version. This will work across export types (except text/csv).
I am assuming however you want this to be non-interactive.
I'm about to venture down this path, as well (clients that require printed forms look exactly as they always have, basically). Did you try this suggestion?
Keith, aside from the image solution, what are the options?
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Using SSRS, I am creating a report that will show some payroll information. The desired layout is to have one page consist of a single employee's information for a single paycheck. It seemed to me that having a List and putting rectangles in it was the best way.
The problem is that I want black borders on each rectangle/text box, and they are appearing inconsistent. In Design/Preview mode in Visual Studio, it looks just how I would like. However, when I deploy to the server, it does not. Thoughts?
This is how it looks in the Design/Preview mode in VS
This is how it looks when deployed to the server. Notice the type and check date fields have space between them as well as the Job Class and Empl. Type fields, and the Printed field has grown vertically a little. NOTE: This is mock data
You need go to the Build-->select your Project and click on deployment the changes which were made by you will reflect in the SSRS Report.
To the best of my knowledge, I'm correctly importing my MS-SQL data source in the Control Panel (It says successful in green). I'm also pretty sure I'm importing the data correctly into the Windows 7 Publisher app since I can view the data in the DataView:
but when I go to the Layout View or Run Preview, I just get a blank chart:
It works if I use the default SimulatedTable but once I change the data source to my MS-SQL table, I can't get anything to display, no matter what display element I'm trying to use.
I've tried re-importing the data, using a different MS-SQL table, and re-naming the columns to match the SimulatedTable but it doesn't change the result. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Please try one thing, I am just guessing it might work.
Please select one of the Time Preset buttons and see if you see data in that(where there is blank) chart object.
If yes, then while setting up the time navigator object, select an option in drop down box labeled "Default Time Range Preset"
There are some hacks, please do let me know if run into some weirdness. It might not make sense if i try to explain unless you run into that situation.
Cheers,
I ended up giving up on the Windows 7 version of the application and running a virtual instance of Windows 8.1 instead so I could install the Datazen Publisher app for Windows 8.1. It's FAR less buggy.
Not perfect, though.
im using CR version 13. With VS2010 and CR SP1 for VS2010.
I have a report with lots of subreports. They use XML schemas for data at design time and then uses runtime populated datasets. It works great on my development machine. But on other development machines or in deployment the report pops up a databaselogon promt asking for username etc.
Ive seen alot of people having similar problems, nobody have an answear. Let me make it clear, i dont use a database in any way shape or form.
Other reports works ok, only my new report do this.
I had some subreports i wanted to supress. I did this by simply not setting any datasource on them. For some reason CR on my development machine didnt pop up a dialog for datasource, so i assumed it worked.
What i do instead now, wich is proberbly also the better way. is to give the report a parameter value wich is used in the supress formulas of the sub reports.
Env.: Reporting Services or XTraReport, SqlServer Express 2008 R2, VS2008, WinForms, C#
Hi All,
My WinForms app must send a customized letter to a bunch of people (whose contact info is in SqlServer). This is the typical job for Word Mail/Merge.
But I'd like to do it without Word installed on client computers. I'd rather use MS Reporting Services (or DevExpress XtraReport).
The problem is those tools allow me to put text boxes for name and address (that's fine) but they aren't real word processors. I need to embed custom fields in the flow of the text. This is easily done in Word but I can't find a way to do it in Reporting Services.
Note: I'm a newbie as far as reporting is concerned.
Please help,
TIA.
Serge.
In MS Reporting Services, you can set the value of a text field to a VB expression, rather than a fixed string. Use that expression to insert your database fields into the text.
For example you might have an expression like this one:
="Dear "+Fields!FirstName.Value+","
For a more sophisticated approach, you could use placeholders in your text and replace them with some regular expressions. In that case you'd probably want to embed the code in the report or an assembly and just call it as a function from your text field.
I discovered that DevExpress XtraReport can do what I want: One can embed fields into the text of RichEdit controls:
Hello [firstName], your subscription elapsed on [lastDay!dd/MM/yyyy]
Also, the mailing issue is solved by having a report which only consists in a Detail band.
I would have preferred a MS Reporting Services solution but this one nicely fits my needs.
I am trying to produce SSRS reports to integrate with a MOSS Dashboard. Reporting Services 2005 only seems to be able to render .xls out of the box. Does SSRS 2008 have the ability to render in xlsx format?
To the best of my experience, exporting to excel2007 is not built into SSRS2008, you need to get an external component for that. Currently looking into what is available on the market, i'll get back to you with what i find.
Edit:
Ok had a look at both aspose.cells and OfficeWriter by SoftArtisans. Both claim to offer .xlsx-exporting capabilities for SSRS, but in both cases this is a partial truth at best.
Both work by having you recreate your report in Excel using their respective add-ons, and then pasting their own markup into your RDL-file. This also has the effect that if you are making an excel-exportable report in either tool, you won't be able to view or export it in anything else from SSRS. Both have the ability to open an existing report and access their datasets from there, which is a major advantage over trying to get MSQuery to work for you.
Aspose suffers from various issues with permissions on the server, where you need to grant it full trust (not everyone would want that). I also had a major hassle getting it installed properly.
OfficeWriter has some issues with shared datasources, where you generally have to go in and set them manually after you've published your report. It also seems to choke on VS2008 RDLs, if you want to use a dataset from a VS2008 report, you have to make a new report in VS2005 with your dataset, and use that as a basis for your excel-built report.
Personally I don't care much for either. But overall Officewriter does seem like it comes out ahead. Next stop is figuring out if it has built-in support for matrices, or that is something we would have to program in VB to get.
According to Exporting to Microsoft Excel(msdn)
The Excel rendering extension renders a report that is compatible with Microsoft Excel 97 and later.
This seems to suggest the old format.