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How to show several pages of a report in one page ??

  • May 3, 2012 at 12:57 am

    #255740

    I have a table with 1 column and 900 rows which is result of

    select distinct department_code from mytable

    where user = 'myname'

    The result is :

    Myname

    101

    102

    103

    ...

    999

    so it is several pages with only 1 column and the rest of the page is blank.

    instead of that I want to show result like:

    Myname

    101 102 103

    104 105 106

    ... 999

    any suggestion ?

    cheers,

    Amir

  • May 3, 2012 at 7:14 am

    #1482996

    Try this:

    http://p2p.wrox.com/content/articles/creating-mailing-labels-sql-server-reporting-services

    It is stated in the link, but it deserves restating. You will only see the proper layout in print preview mode.

  • May 3, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    #1483379

    Thanks a lot,

    The answer definitely is changing number of page columns in the report property. But this change only appears when the report is saved as PDF not on the webpage. i.e users having access to SSRS webpage and when they run the reports they will see the webpage output rather than PDF.

    Is there anyway that I can force them to see the PDF format for this specific report ?

    Cheers,

    Amir

  • May 4, 2012 at 8:04 am

    #1483575

    Amir:

    Is your goal merely to display all 900 on a single page? If so, why not just concantenate all of the values into a single field? Make the field the width of the report page, and set the field to auto expand to accomodate all of the text (default behavior)?

    --pete

  • May 4, 2012 at 9:32 am

    #1483654

    Thanks Pete,

    But how can I concatanate them?

  • May 4, 2012 at 9:57 am

    #1483675

    Well, one approach is to do the concantenating in sql -- i.e., rather than return a dataset with 900 rows of data of distinct values, return just one row with the values already concentanted in a single field. Refer to Jeff Moden's excellent article on contentation functions (http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Test+Data/61572/) -- his ultimate recommendation is at the end of the article which leverages a little bit of XML and a correlated query.

    I don't think the Join() function in SSRS will work on a dataset; it works on a parameter such as a multi-select parameter, however. Here's a link to Luke Hayler's article on the Join() function (http://lukehayler.com/2009/08/the-join-function-in-ssrs/[/url]); some of the commenters encourage doing concantenation in SQL rather than attempting to do so in SSRS.

    --pete

  • May 5, 2012 at 3:56 am

    #1483818

    Thanks Pete, for your valuable info

    Cheers, Amir

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