I conclude the article with a review of some of the issues that SSRS 2008 has fixed, or at least mitigated. Some of the solutions offered can still be used in SSRS 2008. Hopefully, these will be useful to the many (the majority?) people who are still using SSRS 2005 in production. In this article, I round up some of the more interesting challenges that I have encountered in my report development efforts, and the solutions I’ve found to them. However, I’ve also found that small “gotchas” can halt progress and cause considerable frustration, as it’s not always easy to find ways round them in the documentation. Having used SSRS 2005 for the past 4 years, I’ve found that, with a little effort, it can satisfy most business, ad-hoc, embedded, portal integration, web, and custom reporting needs. SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), when it arrived, offered a much-needed means to centralize and standardize reporting across the business, and it has largely delivered. In many cases, there doesn’t even exist a shared understanding of the business data that underpin these reports.
Furthermore, individual departments have tended to adopt a “silo” approach, using different tools/systems to create reports that are useful within their silo, but not necessarily consistent or compatible with those produced by other departments. Historically, however, the problem has been that the available reports have not always been up-to-date, or even accurate. In most organizations, at least some attempt has been made to meet these reporting needs.
In every business there are several different groups of report users, from chief executives, to business analysts, to operational staff, who all need access to reliable and current data in order to track overall business performance, investigate the effectiveness of individual business functions, or simply for ad-hoc day-to-day reporting.
please note that the subreports dont need to have actual height spelled out in the master report, but I found it easer to make the widths correspond exactly.Ten Common SQL Server Reporting Services Challenges and Solutions - Simple Talk In the master report summary band space your subreports with page breaks between like below.
feel free to experiment with the other possible 'scale image' setting.ģ. Once I change the 'scale image' setting to 'fill frame' that solved my issue. I had the image in my page header set to 'scale image' = 'retain shape' which apparently cause the page header to be larger that the size I allotted it (100px). if you have an image in the master report header/footer band make sure you have the right "Scale Image" setting. Subreport height (max height allowed) = master report height - master report page header band height - master report page footer band height - master report top margin - master report bottom margeĢ. make sure all your subreports have the proper height I just finished wrestling with putting together a report with 4 sub reports. The master report I added as a attachment.