Can we drill down reports in a another different pages with different layouts?

Hi, all experts here,

Thank you for your kind attention.

I am wondering if we can drill down reports in a different page with different layouts and columns? e.g. I have too many columns desired to see in a report, so I want to direct the users to another page with different layouts and columns, so the first view in the report wont display so many columns in a page. Is it possible to make it in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services? And if it is possible then how? Hope my question is clear for your help.

Thanks a lot in advance and I am looking forward to hearing from you.

With best regards,

Yours sincerely,

Yes, you can use the Action property of your column textbox. When you look at the options, you can either jump to a new report or to a bookmark or to an URL. In your case, you may like to use Jump to Bookmark. Use BookmarkID for the tables or lists which are displayed in subsequent pages and use that ID to jump to, from your first page columns.

Shyam

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Hi, Shyam,

Thank you for your kind help and advice.

Yes, in the navigation property (action property), I can set the actions accordingly. But the pages I am going to will still get the same columns as in the first page. What I want is drill down to a page with different columns displayed? Is that possible? Thank you very much. And I am looking forward to hearing from you further.

With best regards,

Yours sincerely,

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In that case, you may have to navigate to a subreport which will have different layout. Create a subreport and jump to this subreport providing the necessary parameters.

Shyam

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Hi, Shyam,

Thanks a lot for your kind help.

With best regards,

Yours sincerely,

Can we a use a CSS or equivalent for a reports(RDLC File)

Hi,

I will be using RDLC files to display reports in various pages.

My Question is this.

I need to use the same type of formatting of color,fonts,font sizes and the background colors so that the same can be used across the reports.

This is somewhat like using a CSS file for aspx pages.

Any ideas... , solution........, .......

Hi,

Just wondering!

We have CSS for the aspx and the HTML pages.

Are there no ways to set a golbal standard for the Reports( Ok, be it a Server report or a local report.). Is it not correct what I am asking.

|||I've been looking into this also, and I found some old threads stating that themes and css are not supported but that they may be in the next version.|||

Hello,

Formatting for reports can be expression based. Create your reports using a standard formula for similar items and pass in values through a dataset. Another option would be to take formatting information in as parameters. The RDL file is just an XML file, you could modify it directly if you want. Here is a link to information on programmatically generating RDLs: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms154583.aspx. RDLs and RDLCs are very similar, and the same techniques could be used.

Good luck,

Larry

|||I need a clarification.

How do I assign a class in the css to a text box.

Say I have a class .txtboxTahomaBold in the CSS, how do I assign the class to the textbox. I do not find any property for the controls (textbox, table .... )|||

I am sorry to have misslead you. You do not get to assign CSS to the textboxes, but you can assign the regular SSRS formatting to each text box on a report prior to displaying it. The easiest way would be to create formulas within the report based on data that you provide through a dataset. For example, set the Font formula to =FieldsTextBoxTahomaBold.Value and have the dataset pass in the string "Normal, Tahoma, 11pt, Bold". Of course, you could also modify the XML, but that is more trouble than it is worth.

I will try and get an example written up on my blog. I will post a link here when I do.

Larry

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Thanks.

Waiting for your reply.

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Formatting your report based on the user or the data is relatively straight forward once you get the trick. To demonstrate, create a report with a valid connection to an instance of Microsoft SQL Server and use the following SQL as your query:

Code Snippet

SELECT
CASE @.param
WHEN 0 THEN 'Blue'
WHEN 1 THEN 'Red'
END AS color,
CASE @.param
WHEN 0 THEN '12pt'
WHEN 1 THEN '24pt'
END AS size

and create five text boxes with the following attributes:
TextBox1
Value: Color
Color: =First(Fields!color.Value)

TextBox2
Value: Size
Font: Normal, Arial, =First(Fields!size.Value), Normal

TextBox3
Value: Both
Color: =First(Fields!color.Value)
Font: Normal, Arial, =First(Fields!size.Value), Normal

TextBox4
Value: =First(Fields!color.Value)

TextBox5
Value: =First(Fields!size.Value)

Sorry for the delay. The article at http://smithmier.com/blog/?p=38 has a picture of the results, but it really isn't required to understand the concept.

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Hi Larry,

Thanks for the post.

I will check it out.

Can we a use a CSS or equivalent for a reports(RDLC File)

Hi,

I will be using RDLC files to display reports in various pages.

My Question is this.

I need to use the same type of formatting of color,fonts,font sizes and the background colors so that the same can be used across the reports.

This is somewhat like using a CSS file for aspx pages.

Any ideas... , solution........, .......

Hi,

Just wondering!

We have CSS for the aspx and the HTML pages.

Are there no ways to set a golbal standard for the Reports( Ok, be it a Server report or a local report.). Is it not correct what I am asking.

|||I've been looking into this also, and I found some old threads stating that themes and css are not supported but that they may be in the next version.|||

Hello,

Formatting for reports can be expression based. Create your reports using a standard formula for similar items and pass in values through a dataset. Another option would be to take formatting information in as parameters. The RDL file is just an XML file, you could modify it directly if you want. Here is a link to information on programmatically generating RDLs: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms154583.aspx. RDLs and RDLCs are very similar, and the same techniques could be used.

Good luck,

Larry

|||I need a clarification.

How do I assign a class in the css to a text box.

Say I have a class .txtboxTahomaBold in the CSS, how do I assign the class to the textbox. I do not find any property for the controls (textbox, table .... )|||

I am sorry to have misslead you. You do not get to assign CSS to the textboxes, but you can assign the regular SSRS formatting to each text box on a report prior to displaying it. The easiest way would be to create formulas within the report based on data that you provide through a dataset. For example, set the Font formula to =FieldsTextBoxTahomaBold.Value and have the dataset pass in the string "Normal, Tahoma, 11pt, Bold". Of course, you could also modify the XML, but that is more trouble than it is worth.

I will try and get an example written up on my blog. I will post a link here when I do.

Larry

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Thanks.

Waiting for your reply.

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Formatting your report based on the user or the data is relatively straight forward once you get the trick. To demonstrate, create a report with a valid connection to an instance of Microsoft SQL Server and use the following SQL as your query:

Code Snippet

SELECT
CASE @.param
WHEN 0 THEN 'Blue'
WHEN 1 THEN 'Red'
END AS color,
CASE @.param
WHEN 0 THEN '12pt'
WHEN 1 THEN '24pt'
END AS size

and create five text boxes with the following attributes:
TextBox1
Value: Color
Color: =First(Fields!color.Value)

TextBox2
Value: Size
Font: Normal, Arial, =First(Fields!size.Value), Normal

TextBox3
Value: Both
Color: =First(Fields!color.Value)
Font: Normal, Arial, =First(Fields!size.Value), Normal

TextBox4
Value: =First(Fields!color.Value)

TextBox5
Value: =First(Fields!size.Value)

Sorry for the delay. The article at http://smithmier.com/blog/?p=38 has a picture of the results, but it really isn't required to understand the concept.

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Hi Larry,

Thanks for the post.

I will check it out.

Can SSRS break a "large page" into printable pages?

This is a question of strategy. Can SSRS handle this problem, or should I consider another approach?

My problem: I want to print a family tree chart. Imagine starting with the parents at the top center, then their children spread out in the next row, with their spouses, then the third row has the grandchildren, and so on. No problem, provided that you have the ability to position the entries where you want, and a page that has indefinite width and depth. But of course this has to be printed out on normal pages.

1/ Does SSRS give me the ability to create a very large page, and then automatically break this up for me into standard-sized pages that the real printer can handle. For example, the program might first produce a "virtual A1 page", then physically print this as up to 16 A4 pages (which the user might then glue together). It doesn't matter (from the application's point of view) whether the output is HTML, PDF, or something else, although PDF is probably a preference.

2/ Does SSRS allow me to calculate the position of a textbox at execution time. It is not until I read the data that I can work out the dimensions of the chart.

[Editing: I've found the answer: it's "Yes". But that leads to another question: -]

3/ Can I create new controls dynamically? I won't know how many people there are until I read the data. So whereas normal logic is "Read a record, print a detail line", in this case the logic will be "Read a record, create a texbox and place it {here} on the virtual page"

If yes, then I think that I can figure out the logic. What should I read to learn how to do this?

Thanks, Robert.

hi,

first create one rdlc file with existing ds and certain values (which is in working condition)

then open it as an xml file.

now you can see the xml tags in it and before generating the report generate the rdlc file as per your caluclation (these tags has column width..etc)

generate the rdlc and then, while showing it in report viewer select processing mode as local, then give this rdlc file as report and bind the dataset which you want to show in the report.

First, open a working report's rdlc file content in xml viewer, you can understand what to do, by using System.Xml namespace classes.

I will try to find the code, i have worked on it in the past.

and once you have done this, printer will take care of the rest.

( in rdlc xml tags give length and bredth of report as per your needs after calculating the data and space it occupies)

see the following link, its also similar to your problem

http://forums.asp.net/t/1195123.aspx

all the best

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Thanks for this, if you can post the code, that would be great!

Perhaps you can help me with the related problem, http://forums.asp.net/p/1192671/2052349.aspx#2052349. This explains the whole problem, which is that I'm trying to produce a family tree chart. My original idea was that I could produce a huge "virtual page", and then break this up into printable (A4) chunks. However, I can't figure out how program logic such as this at the start of the report: -
For each record
Read record
Create textbox at position ...
Next

Until I can figure this out, I'm completely stuck. In fact, if I could write code like this at the start of each page I wouldn't need to create a large virtual page to be broken up later.

Can Not View Report Server Web Pages

I have installed the Business Intelligence Studio on my PC and had no
problems creating a report, but when I go to http:\\localhost\reportserver,
I just see a directory listing in the browser instead of the web interface.
Where should I look to troubleshoot?
TIA
Dean> Where should I look to troubleshoot?
No place -- you're prolly fine.
Try http://localhost/reports if you want the Report Manager interface...
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>I have installed the Business Intelligence Studio on my PC and had no
>problems creating a report, but when I go to http:\\localhost\reportserver,
>I just see a directory listing in the browser instead of the web interface.
>Where should I look to troubleshoot?
> TIA
> Dean
>

can not view certain web pages

i get an error message: cannot find server of dns error.
when viewing certain web pages. i do not know what to doFirst change your settings on IE to show you the error.
Under Tools

quote:

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>Internet Options

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Click on Advance Tab
Scroll down and uncheck show friendly HTTP errors
Then navigate to the page. See if you get a more useful error msg.