Just want to know if this is even possible, before I drive myself insane in google-searches.
I know how to drillthrough to another rapport when the user clicks on a cell. But what if the cell has multiple values, e.g. Server-names (comma-seperated), and I only want to pass the servername that the user clicked?
As I see you can only pass the values of the whole cell or what?
Using reporting services 2012 R2 with report builder 3.0.
Thanks
I don't think you can do that directly but...
You could create a subreport that accepts the comma separated list of servers as it's parameter.
The subreport would then split these into separate cells and have an action on the cell that then take you to the drill through report. I done something similar in the past and it's work quite nicely. You just need to make the subreport nice and small so it'll fit in you existing cell.
It you wanted to keep them on a single line then subreport would have to be a matrix with a column group grouped by servername. It won't be as compact as a comma separated list as the columns will all have to be wide enough to fit the longest name but it works.
If you need any more help I'll provide more more detailed solution but this hopefully will get you going.
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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
I couldn't figure out how to word the question, so please comment if you have a better wording.
I am creating a report the has multiple sections, all displayed on one sheet. One of the sections need to be displayed at equal column widths, while the rest of the report has varying column widths. What I would like to do is display this section as some sort of chart/table that will display as if it was part of a continuous report. Should I be using listboxes or is there a better option?
Thanks for any help.
I'm not sure I completely understand your question, but from what I do understand, maybe what you could do is put the part with the fixed column widths on another part of your sheet and then:
Copy it
Go to where you want it in the report and Paste Special > Linked Picture (I)
I think that would give you what you're looking to accomplish, otherwise, please clarify a bit more...
I had a problem in creating the Dynamic report in SSRS. My problem is:
In a table I have stored SQL scripts with the column SQLScripts. If you execute these SQL scripts you get different number of columns for each script.
My problem is, I have one report with buttons of these scripts, for example test1, test2...like that. If you press test1 button this should take the test one SQL script and should display the report with appropiate columns in that sqlscripts.
I can't create individual reports for each test report, they are plenty. Are there any options for me to solve this problem...
The only way I've been able to get this to work sofar is:
Each report has 2 datasets.
ReportData
DataHeaders
The "DataHeaders" need to have the proper name of the datafields in "ReportData". Be careful since SSRS replaces blanks and special characters with "_"
Now, create a table (or matrix) and drag the DataHeaders as the Columns of your report. (This should be a grouped column). If you run it at this point, you'll see all your columns without any data. Now comes the magic:
Create another report that takes a "DataField" parameter. Create another table or matrix within this report and set it's dataset property to be "ReportData". In the DATA cell for the table, set it to the expression =Fields(Parameters!DataField.Value).Value
Now go back to your first report. Right click and insert a subreport. Right click on the subreport and select "Subreport Properties". Under general, select the second report you created to be used as the subreport. Under parameters, select the DataField parameter and set its value to something like =Fields!DataField.Value
In my case I did some formatting in this expression to fix the above mentioned issue with spaces and special characters, since my stored procedure was initially used in ASP.NET and this was just a proof of concept.
Also in my experience the performance isn't great. In fact it was kinda slow, though I haven't had a chance to switch it to use a shared dataset, which I suspect would help a bit. Please let me know if you find a better solution.
I have not found a way to do this completely dynamically. Here is a similar question with some possible solutions:
How do i represent an unknown number of columns in SSRS?
You basically need to create a 'master dataset' from the other Datasets that are based on your multitude of SQL scripts first.The master dataset should contain the data to be presented in it's most simplistic form, i.e. in a simple list format.
Finally, go to the toolbar in SSRS and drag a 'Matrix' into the report. A Matrix table acts similar to a pivot table in Excel or a CrossTab query in Access that will display whatever's in the Dataset.
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")
I want to build a report that is completely static in size and shape. I'm attempting to mimic a hand-entered report that someone in my organization has been building from a word doc for years.
The critical piece appears to be fixing the number of rows that are produced in the various Table grids that fill the page. I would like them to always contain a set number of rows, whether data is present or not. It would seem that if I can just fix the size my tables, then all the other elements will not be forced to move because of stretching repeater sections.
All my grids are backed by stored procedures, so I'm open to SQL tricks as well.
Sorry i did miss-read the question.
If you know how many rows you need to return (say 20) maybe you could pad some bogus info into your records returned from the stored procedure. You might be able to count the records your query has returned before you send them back, and if you have less than 20 add some bogus ones to the record set, put something like 'NonDisp' or something in them.
Then in the report put an iif statement into the cells that checks for this bogus info, if it is found change the cell to display nothing, otherwise show the valid values
Not a direct answer, but perhaps a workaround you might consider: perhaps you can insert a page break after the table grids that have dynamic sizes, so that all elements that follow it have a fixed position (relative to the top of the page).
Add a parent group to tablix with =Ceiling((RowNumber(Nothing)) / 10000) expression. (10000 or whatever is required no. of rows)
In page break properties of group, check box for insert break between groups, leave the bottom boxes un-checked.
Optionally, we may chose to set hidden property true for text boxes added because of new parent group.
In tablix properties, check box for "Keep together on one page".