I have a report that has 3 pages (it's basically 3 images), one on each page.
The 3rd image should only be visible given a condition. This part works. The image is displayed or not displayed properly.
The problem is, if the image is NOT displayed, I don't want to show a blank page there. The report needs to go onto the next page.
How do I make it so that if the 3rd page isn't there, then a blank space will not be rendered?
Like with most formatting questions, the answer is: a Rectangle.
Put your image in a rectangle and use the visibility of the rectangle. When invisible, the rectangle will not consume the space.
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In My Microsoft SQL Report Builder, the footer is inaccessible for any editing and I believe it may be because the height is set to 0 but have no idea how I can change this. I can tell the footer is on because a small dotted line appears when I click add footer. But have no clue how to change the size.
With the page footer added (dotted line visible,) slowly move your mouse from the background below to the page pixel by pixel until the cursor turns into the up and down arrows. If you go slow enough, you should be able to grab the footer handle without the page handle, then click and pull down to expand the footer. You can tell if you are in the right spot because the black bar on the ruler to the left will be beneath the gray bar that denotes the end of the page. It helps if you lower your mouse sensitivity.
Sorry for poor quality, had to use step recorder to get the cursor. Notice the black bar to the left is below the gray horizontal bar. This means I am over the footer and not the page.
I have a RDLC report which should display information on one page in pdf.
I have a PageSize 21cm, 29.7 (standart A4).
I have a Page Header and Footer - each 2.5cm.
Body size 21cm, 23.7cm.
Margins for top and bottom - each 0.5cm.
So in theory it means that my page height is 23.7+0.5x2+2.5x2=29.7 - all seems to be fine.
In practice, for some reason, all elements placed after 23cm (body) are moved to the next page.
I cant get it, where is the problem and what is wrong if on RDLC all seems fine, but in pdf I am loosing 7mm of Body.
What it can be?
Check your margin sizes in the report's property and eliminate any "white" space in the report - even horizontal. Even little bit of horizontal overflow would be "pushed" to second page.
You set margin right and left to 0.5cm, then body width will be 20cm not 21cm.
I'm trying to create a live tile for my application, using a user control.
The user control contains a grid, an image and a rectangle filled with color.
Now here comes the funny part.
I want the rectangle to act as a background for the tile's title, and the image to fill the rest of the tile. And i said to myself, well, lets put some rows in that grid and set the like you usually set them in a WPF/SL application.
I then write the entire thing in a WBM and save it to isostore.
The problem is, the parser seems to ignore the presence of grid's rows. regardless of what I try, the rectangle is not shown, and the image covers the full tile, when it should only cover the first row. It is as if the grid didn't even existed.
Another funny aspect is that it doesn't matter if I use rows or columns, the result is the same.
Any ideas?
Are you using the following method?
Dynamic LiveTile - adding background image?
I recently implemented a Live Tile using a Grid with Rows and Columns for layout of some TextBlocks. I encountered similar challenges, so I placed the control that I was using for my Live Tile on a blank page in my app to better see what was happening. Does the control render correctly when displayed on a page (versus being rendered to a WriteableBitmap)?
Another idea. Instead of trying to position the Rectangle relative to the tile's Title, why not leave the Title property blank and put the same text in a TextBlock within the user control?
If you are careful about the font and positioning of the TextBlock, the text on the resulting background image can appear indistinguishable from text displayed from the Title property. I decided to follow this strategy myself. I found the font information in the following answer:
Font size and family for a tile's title
Otherwise, could you post an example of the XAML you are using?
I have a RDLC report which has some controls on the first page, which are inside a rectangle and which display ok. Beneath the rectangle, i have a matrix, which spans more than one page both in width and in height. I want the matrix to start rendering on the second page. If I enable "insert break before" on the matrix, there is an extra blank page before the matrix(in print layout), which is my problem. If I reduce the amount of data, so the matrix does not span more than one page in width, there is no blank page, and all is well. I checked the Page and Body sizes, they are ok. Any tips? This has been driving me crazy all day, what can I check? Thx
I know this is probably too late now, but I was receiving extra page breaks if my Body size width property was greater than my Report PageSize width property.
Check both these things.
Put borders on everything to see if they are wider than the page. Check the keepTogether property on all the elements to see if they are creating extra white-spaces.
Try setting the 'insert break before' on a dummy rectangle between your first page content and the matrix, instead of giving it directly on the matrix itself.
I have a RDLC report and I am displaying it on the Report Viewer Control in my front end application. I am able to view the report perfectly.
But the problem arises when I try to export the report to a PDF (using the built-in option).
I print the report in 3 pages whereas my client wants it to be in a single page. I can't figure out the reason for it as in my report viewer I see only one page but in a PDF there are 3 pages.
Can something be done about it so that I can control the size of the report?
The answer is pretty similar to what Dugan said, but it's not always just the margins.
It is pretty simple though:
When you are editing the rdlc file in design mode, firstly click on an empty part of the BODY area of your design. Hit F4 to see the properties tab. Here, you will see a "Size" property. This can be expanded for the width and height. The width you see here represents the width that the body of your report requires as printable area. Even if you have white space all over, the page knows that it needs to keep it as a printable area. It reserves the space, in some sense. As for the height, the system generally knows that it can grow or shrink as necessary, unless you have specified otherwise within your controls therein. So the width is what will, usually, play the most important role.
Next, click on an empty area of the report (outside the header, body, and footer; basically the gray area around the design), then hit F4 to view the properties panel. Under the "Layout" category of the properties, you will see 3 different options:
InteractiveSize,
Margins,
PageSize.
Each of those Size attributes can be expanded to show the Width and Height. The Margins attribute can be expanded for the left/right/top/bottom.
Basically, the pdf export works out of the PageSize (though I generally try to keep Interactive and Page size equal). When the pdf file is rendered via the ReportViewer's built-in export function, the width and height of each "page" within the pdf will be determined by the width and height in the report's PageSize attribute (you could override this if you used your own custom code for the pdf rendering).
As for the margins, they specify how much space MUST be left blank and unprintable between the printable area reserved for your report and the edge of the page.
In other words:
Your report's Body's Width, Plus the Report's Left Margin, Plus the Report's Right Margin, MUST be smaller than or equal to the Report's PageSize's Width!
So...if your margins are too wide, or if your report's body is too wide, or if the PageSize's width is too narrow, the rendered result is forced to be broken down to multiple pages in order to fit!
For example: If my report's body has width 7.75", my Left margin is 0.5", my right margin is 0.5", and the width specified in the PageSize is 8.5", my report will always use 2 pages for each 1 page of data. The 7.75" width of the body, plus 0.5"+0.5" for the margins add up to 8.75", which is larger than the 8.5" available in my page. So the first 7.5" (or so) of each page of my report's body will be shown in the first page, and the rest will be split down to the next page. This will not be done inside the report viewer, as it allows for the report to grow beyond the page size by just adding a scrollbar, but it will be annoyingly noticeable in the pdf export.
In order to make my example report fit in 1 page, I can either try and reduce the body of my report to 7.5" or less, or I can reduce the left and right margins by a total of 0.25" or more (for example, set them to 0.3" for a total reduction of 0.4"), or I can increase the PageSize to something larger than 8.75".
Note: Acrobat Reader is pretty smart and knows about various paper sizes. Therefore, while arbitrary PageSizes will work, it is typically best to use real page sizes. As such, in my last example I would rather set the PageSize to have Width = 11" and Height = 8.5", which is a real letter-size in landscape! Adobe will typically understand this and print properly.
Also Note: Some printers, especially older ones, have trouble printing with less than 0.3" margins. If you want to be nice to your users, you should best keep the margins large enough for those older printers ;)
I hope this helps.
Always maintain body width : 7.5 or less
Left, Right Margin width less than 0.5
Set the Margin width first -> goto main menu Reports->Report Properties->Layout->change left margin and right margin
Total page width :8.5
Ramana
In addtion to watching your widths, I found other unrelated things that can cause extra blank page in the PDF.
If the tablix has any field with word wrap, this can cause it. You might want to make the font smaller if you have long data. Make the font size property equal to something like this:
=iif(len(Fields!RepGroupName.Value) > 25, "6pt","8pt")
Another thing you may have to do. And this helped me when I had no apparent reason for the extra page. In the Report property page, set:
ConsumeContainerWhitespace = true
Yet another thing to watch for. The body size can grow without you knowing it while making changes to the layout. You might have to knock it back down again.
This issue is highly annoying for the end user if not resolved and annoying as heck for us to resolve.
In case anyone else runs into this issue and ends up here, it's most likely a issue with your margins. If the margins are set incorrectly, you will often get "extra" pages that appear when you try and print, whereas when you view the document everything is fine.