How to format crosstab corner in Cognos - formatting

I am using crosstab in my report where i wanted to hide crosstab corner (say "Contract count") but when i tried setting box type equals to none, the output overlapping the column fields into the place of crosstab corner. I want rows to be get populate on the place of crosstab corner. Please advice me if anyone has solution for this.

It's not a proper way to do that to hide Crosstab Corner, in order to get you need to follow below steps.
Step 1: Unlock the Crosstab Corner
Step2: Change Source type to Text from Data Item Label
Step 3: Don't Write any text in the Text source
Then it will be empty

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Crystal Reports crosstable formatting

My colleague and I have taken over a vb.net project that uses Crystal Reports (I have CR9 on my PC).
The user has given the following feedback to us on how he would like the reports changed.
1) At the moment, it is wasting space by showing empty columns. How is it possible to not show the columns where all values are "-"? (I've tried using Crosstab Expert, however there are some reports where the columns have second sub-columns with titles in, so with these ones it shows them as it treats the columns as not empty)
2) The crosstabs at the moment are displaying from left to right, and are adding next to each other. My user wants the tables to go underneath each other, so that the report goes downwards, rather than sideways. How is this possible?
If anybody knows a fix to either of these issues that would be great, thanks.
In regards to the empty columns, you can choose a custom style in the Crosstab Expert and select Suppress Empty Columns
If the dashes don't count as empty, you might need to change the crosstab to evaluate a formula which replaces the dashes as zeroes or blanks.
I'm not aware of a good way to make a crosstab separate vertically as you specified. But you could swap the rows with the columns. It appears to me you have way more columns than you do rows, which should fit better on the page.
I suppose you are using the database field directly in the cross tab which is the reason you are getting -. Possible approach would be to write a condition and use that in cross tab. something like below
Create a formula #Formula1
if {Database.field}<>"-"
then {Database.field} //You can end the condition here if you wish
else "" // If you write else then check option supress empty rows or columns as per requirement
Now create a cross tab using Formula1 and display
Coming to your second problem , If you not wish to spread cross tab horizontally then you can pivote cross tab by Right click on cross tab or go to cross tab expert and give the fields that spread in rows part and that are static in column part.
Hope this helps

RDLC - How to display each row from dataset in each page?

I am having set of text boxes in the report and binding each columns in the text box from the Data set.
As of now only first record from the dataset is binding in the text box.
I need all the rows in the dataset to bind in the text boxes page wise.
Each row in the dataset bind to text boxes page wise.
First record in first page,Second record in second page ... etc.
How to achieve this? Help me to solve this...
Thanks in Advance,
Stephen.L
I recently faced the same issue, I used some help from stackoverflow to solve the issue, u might have already figured it out but this is to help others with similar issue.
Make sure you have a Dataset defined for your report.
Add a "Table" control to the report. This seems to be needed in order to iterate the rows in your Dataset.
Delete the header row and two of the default columns from the table so that you are left with a single row with a single column.
Expand the table to the width of your layout and make it as tall as you will need for your "free form" layout.
By default, there is a TextBox inside the table cell. Right-click the empty table cell and choose "delete" to remove that TextBox.
Drag a "Rectangle" control into the empty table cell. It seems to automatically "dock" to the width/height of the table cell.
Now you should be able to drag the fields from your DataSet (TextBoxes, etc) into the Rectangle to produce the desired layout.
You can use a List with page breaks at the end of details group.

Issue related to the parameter of report in Pentaho Report Designer

I have a chart that contains 4 parameters and every parameter is related to the following one, i success i having the result of the chart by selecting the whole parameters one after the other,
The probleme is that i want to have another option by having the result of the chart by selecting also just one parameter or having the result without selecting any parameter
Can you please help me as soon as possible
Thanks a lot
There is one checkbox available while creating a parameter "Mandatory".Just remove the Right click from the checkboxes while creating all four parameters.Now you can check your result while selecting any parameter you want.

access: displaying data on a report

i have a report that is attached to a query
i want to display the contents of a query. there are three columns. i made a list box but it looks weird:
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i dont want the scroll bars, i just need the three fields from a query to be displayed regularly just as they would be in a spread sheet or grid
In your report's Detail section, create a text box (not a list box) for each of those 3 fields in your query.
It might be easier to get oriented by creating an autoform based on the query.

Highlight row in report?

I have a SSRS report which displays hundred of rows. I was wondering if there is anyway i can highlight the rows so that i can easily know on which row i am while accessing the report.
Any thoughts?
It cannot be done in SSRS 2005. You cannot make any dynamic actions after report is generated.
According to this thread on how to highlight rows (background) with different color for mouse over property, it seems like this is not a feature that is supported by the software. Which means that you would need to create or find a custom report item to fit your needs.
However, another approach would be to alternate background colors in Reporting Services:
Go to the row Fill Property and choose Expression
Add in something like =IIF(RowNumber(Nothing) Mod 2, "Silver", "White")