I have a weekly report which totals anywhere from 200 - 1000 rows of data. For my accounting people, the total is the only value of import as they simply use it for accrual purposes. I would like to either have the total appear at the top of the report or in a separate text box indicating this is the total for the report. Does anyone have a good idea on how to accomplish this?
If I understand correctly you need to get the result of some aggregate function on a tablix shown in a textbox outside the tablix.
That can be achieved by placing a textbox anywhere on the report, and in the expression for that textbox add a reference to the dataset you need to aggregate, e.g.:
=Sum(Fields!SomeValue.Value, "myDataSet")
Where SomeValue is the name of the field you need to aggregate, and myDataSet is the name of the DataSet that fieldis in.
Your question has already been answered by the other answer. Just as an alternative, you could try one more thing.
On the "details" row group(which appears by default), right click and choose "Add Total".
This will appear in a separate text box outside the report.
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I'm trying to add some indicators into a matrix to show an increase or decrease from the previous year
This is my design view
And this is how it's viewed in the report
I would obviously like my up and down arrows to appear in the currently empty columns. Also I'm wondering if there is a way of deleting the first empty column after 2014/15 as there is no year to compare it to.
SSRS supports a function called Previous, which will be useful in your scenario. Assuming that the name of your column group is "Fiscal", the difference of two years can be calculated as
=Count(Fields!IDNUMBER.Value) - Previous(Count(Fields!IDNUMBER.Value), "Fiscal")
Because you can't know the range of the numbers in advance, I suggest to use a "numeric" expression like
=Sign(Count(Fields!IDNUMBER.Value) - Previous(Count(Fields!IDNUMBER.Value), "Fiscal"))
for the indicator, so the ranges can be defined by single values -1, 0 and 1:
To hide the first indicator column, right-click the column header in design view and click Column Visibility..., then in the cnfiguration dialog specify to hide based on an expression like
=IsNothing(Previous(Fields!Fiscal.Value, "Fiscal"))
Here's a screenshot of my design view:
I am having some issues with specifying a dynamic cell range for a "data validation".
I'm aware you can do some tricky stuff with = "Projections!M4:M"&O2. You can update the content of cell O2 for example to 3 and the output would be Projections!M4:M3.
This makes the value "dynamic". These tricks don't seem to work in the "Cell Range:" input field in the Data Validation selection/configuration screen.
My problem is, I hate seeing drop down arrows (call me o.c.d) for rows that have no content, my number of rows will grow in the future so I don't have any other option than selecting M4:Mfills the whole 1002 rows with drop down arrows.
Has anyone worked out a trick to make dropdown arrows only show up for rows that are filled?
I'm using = COUNTA(B4:B)to get the number of rows that are filled and = "Projections!M4:M"&O2 to make the desired Projections!M4:MX string but the "Cell Range" input field in the Data validation screen doesn't accept this as valid either.
Well I didn't find a direct solution, but something that I can work with to resolve my issue which was I hate seeing drop down arrows for empty rows.
I turned a filter on for a column that will always be filled in and filtered by conditions Cell is not empty but i'd prefer a better solution.
I've two fields on account form, one is two option(checkbox) and other is text box. As par my requirements, I've to not show the label of the checkbox but show them as simple fields without caption. I am done with it but stuck in a problem that it create a huge space between two fields, as shown in following screenshot. I would like to hear from your side to resolve this problem.
You could try this:
Set the tab to two columns, settings the first column around 5-10% (experiment with the value)
put the checkboxes in the first section, the other fields in the second one
set the first section to have 1 pixels for label width (instead of default 115)
I'm not sure how it would turn out, and would probably need some tweaking (to account for different form/window widths) but you might accomplish something close to what you need.
Another approach would be to build a custom HTML webresource, put it in an IFRAME as the only form element, and rebuild the form from scratch as you like... but it's probably best left as a last-est resort
You can convert the section from 2 columns to 4 columns, span the textbox field to 3 columns. This will reduce the checkbox field columns to 25% and textbox to 75%
This is the maximum we can do in supported way.
I have a report with many tables (tablixes?), in which I need to hide all rows that don't have a value in the 2nd column:
I can do this by right clicking on each row
and setting an expression for the visibility of the row that depends on a value appearing in the field of the 2nd column, e.g.
=IIF((Fields!MyField4.Value = ""), True, False)
But the problem is that my report has over 1000 of these rows! It will take a very long time given that each field has a specific name! I can modify the Xml, but this will also take a while. I am currently writing some code, which uses XDocument, to achieve this.
Are there any faster ways that anyone can think of? Maybe something from the designer, or some VB code? Everywhere on the internet seems to suggest right clicking one row at a time.
In the Designer, select all of the rows (using your Shift or Ctrl key), and use the Properties pane in VS/BIDS to change them all at once. There is a Hidden property there, and you can choose Expression from the dropdown in it. From there, you can apply the IIF to all rows.
Of course, I am assuming all of the visibility is based on the exact same expression for each row. If not, then the answer is no. Unless, you want to start doing some copy/paste stuff in the RDL XML, which I do not recommend.
We have a report developed in another tool that the user exports to Excel to manipulate the data. In the old tool, the columns are being saved in the same order as the dataset returned by the stored procedure. But in SSRS the columns sort is changed to the order that they are displayed on the screen. The user is a nut case and can't convince her to change the order of the columns on the screen report to match her old report sort, but on the other hand does not want to adapt to the new column order. Unfortunately the easiest solution (i.e. replacing the user :-)) is not implementable. Is there a property that I can use to change the sorting on the columns when they are exported. Without knowing much about it, I imagined ZIndex would have done something like that. But it is set to 0 and disabled, so I can't change it's value.
Thanks
I know it's years later but for the benefit of anyone who is in this predicament, a similar idea: in the same report, you create another tablix that will be your "output" tablix, where you arrange things as you please using the same dataset. Make this tablix with visibility hidden, and set it to "output" as necessary. Turn off all outputs from the first tablix. So you have basically a ghost tablix that only works when you export to csv.