Third Major Flaw with Reporting Services!

Third Major Flaw with Reporting Services!

• gortizgil

  I don't really follow you on that. How do you put a "detail" rows into textboxes Do you mean actually copy the detail fields into textboxes each I'm not really sure what you mean by putting the detail rows into textboxes Copy the values

  Thanks for making it clearer.

  Enkh

  
  

• kenalex

  Well this is just a serious layout and requirement concern nothing more. It is nice to have every detail item (3 rows each) on one page instead of spreading into two pages. In this case it is hard to read and keep track of what item you are looking at the page, and so that you have to flip to the previous page to read first part of the information (detail item). This is just a layout concern and is definitely not a very minor concern though. It's a layout issue and in other report designers there are "keep together" property in the detail level of the reports so that detail item is kept together along with table keep together and group keep together. Table keep together is not what I'm talking about. I think there should be detail level keep together for each item to be on one page if it's cutting the item into two on the bottom of the page and top of the next page on a detail item level basis.

   

  
  

• s441

  Whats so special about these 3 rows that they get broken up onto separate pages
  
  

• progames25

  OK let me see if I can clarify.. maybe I misunderstood your problem.

  Let's suppose you have a result set that you are grouping by name, and under each record's name you want a detail row for address, SSN, phone number. Each of these details are in separate rows underneath the group. So, sometimes you will see a person's Name and address on the bottom of page 1, and then page 2 will have a SSN and phone number without a name.

  With my suggestion, you would create a larger row. Insert a rectangle within the new, large row. Within that rectangle, you would have 4 textboxes, stacked on top of each other (so that when the report is rendered, they appear as if they were in rows). The value of each textbox would be the value of your prior row (=Fields!Name.Value, etc.). Since a rectangle is treated as a single entity, it will not be separated when the report is rendered. All textboxes within the rectangle will remain together.

  If this is still unclear, I can take some screen shots and email you to show you what I am talking about.

  I hope this helps.

  
  

• Pascal Frey

  Enkht:

  I am currently running into the exact same problems. The reason this is such a big problem is because on the second page, you will see details and not know what item they correspond to. This seems to be a serious flaw in RS.

  My solution for this issue has been to put all three detail rows that I group together into textboxes. Place these text boxes into a rectangle, since rectangles are not divided at the end of a page. This seems to be working for me. Now, instead of breaking the rows up, the entire rectangle is pushed to the next page.

  Hope this helps.

  
  
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