How to Format Text Area in Report

Hi,
I need create report that should look like a letter,
i.e. I have long, formatted text, where I should place few fields from
the record.
For instance:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dear Sir,
1. Hear goes
2. some formatted text
3. and {Fields!one_field.Value} inserted at line number 3
4. and {Fields!another_field.Value} inserted here
And text continues here
and here, and {Fields!next_filed.Value}
etc.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I did not found possibility to have one text box with formatted content
and fields/ calculations inserted into it in Report Design.
I tried also divide my text area to few text boxes where static text was
separated from data fields, but I've got into the issues with spacing
between the fields. It looks good in design view, but in preview it adds
extra vertical spaces within the fields. Also it is quite hard to format
a set of text boxes to look like one formatted letter.
Is it possible insert fields into formatted text box? If no, how in
general I should build such report?
Thanks for any help,
Alexander.On Dec 25, 2:38 am, "Alexander N. Treyner" <a...@.treyner.israel.net>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I need create report that should look like a letter,
> i.e. I have long, formatted text, where I should place few fields from
> the record.
> For instance:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dear Sir,
> 1. Hear goes
> 2. some formatted text
> 3. and {Fields!one_field.Value} inserted at line number 3
> 4. and {Fields!another_field.Value} inserted here
> And text continues here
> and here, and {Fields!next_filed.Value}
> etc.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I did not found possibility to have one text box with formatted content
> and fields/ calculations inserted into it in Report Design.
> I tried also divide my text area to few text boxes where static text was
> separated from data fields, but I've got into the issues with spacing
> between the fields. It looks good in design view, but in preview it adds
> extra vertical spaces within the fields. Also it is quite hard to format
> a set of text boxes to look like one formatted letter.
> Is it possible insert fields into formatted text box? If no, how in
> general I should build such report?
> Thanks for any help,
> Alexander.
You should consider using a table control in place of the textboxes.
This should allow for a little better layout/design flexibility. Also,
concatenating text and expressions/etc together as an expression is
fairly straight forward, i.e.,:
="and " + Fields!one_field.Value + "inserted at line number 3"
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Enrique Martinez
Sr. Software Consultant|||EMartinez wrote:
> You should consider using a table control in place of the textboxes.
> This should allow for a little better layout/design flexibility. Also,
> concatenating text and expressions/etc together as an expression is
> fairly straight forward, i.e.,:
> ="and " + Fields!one_field.Value + "inserted at line number 3"
> Hope this helps.
> Regards,
> Enrique Martinez
> Sr. Software Consultant
I tried to use expression, but it does not allow to format text. How can
I insert CRLF in the expression? I tried chr(10)+chr(13). It looks good
in preview, when I run report from my web site, seems it just ignore it
and print report without CRLF.
I will try to use tables.
Thanks,
Alex.|||EMartinez wrote:
> You should consider using a table control in place of the textboxes.
> This should allow for a little better layout/design flexibility. Also,
> concatenating text and expressions/etc together as an expression is
> fairly straight forward, i.e.,:
> ="and " + Fields!one_field.Value + "inserted at line number 3"
> Hope this helps.
> Regards,
> Enrique Martinez
> Sr. Software Consultant
I tried to use expression, but it does not allow to format text. How can
I insert CRLF in the expression? I tried chr(10)+chr(13). It looks good
in preview, when I run report from my web site, seems it just ignore it
and print report without CRLF.
I will try to use tables.
Thanks,
Alex.|||RS is pretty crummy at this time for this. RS 2008 will have much better
support for rich text. I have not experimented with it in pre-release
software so other than knowing the support will be better (i.e. there will
be support for rich text) I can't give you particulars.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Alexander N. Treyner" <alex@.treyner.israel.net> wrote in message
news:ufqbGGtRIHA.536@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I need create report that should look like a letter,
> i.e. I have long, formatted text, where I should place few fields from the
> record.
> For instance:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dear Sir,
> 1. Hear goes
> 2. some formatted text
> 3. and {Fields!one_field.Value} inserted at line number 3
> 4. and {Fields!another_field.Value} inserted here
> And text continues here
> and here, and {Fields!next_filed.Value}
> etc.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I did not found possibility to have one text box with formatted content
> and fields/ calculations inserted into it in Report Design.
> I tried also divide my text area to few text boxes where static text was
> separated from data fields, but I've got into the issues with spacing
> between the fields. It looks good in design view, but in preview it adds
> extra vertical spaces within the fields. Also it is quite hard to format a
> set of text boxes to look like one formatted letter.
>
> Is it possible insert fields into formatted text box? If no, how in
> general I should build such report?
> Thanks for any help,
> Alexander.

How to format prediction Expression

hi,

when i make use of predicton functions, the output is formatted in its own.But I want to format that.How to do that?

Thanks,
Karthik.

Can you please elaborate? Are you using BI Dev studio, SQL Management Studio or other tool to run the DMX query using prediction function. Where are you looking at the output?|||

hi Shuvro,

Thanks For your reply.Is it possible to format the resultset returned from a prediction function.

For Example,In this query, select PredictTimeSeries(Performance,5) FROM [Stud_Model] I am getting the resultset as Expression.$Time Expression.Performance

200611 90

200612 95 like that.

I want to give my own columnnames as Year and performance.how to do that?

Thanks,

Karthik.

|||

You can try

select Flattened

(

select $time as TimeStamp, [Performance] as Perf from PredictTimeSeries([Performance], 5)

) as A from [Stud_Model]

This allows you to customize the name of each column, as well as the name of the whole sub-select, and the results should look like

A.TimeStamp, A.Perf

|||

Thanks a lot bogdan,thats very helpful to me.

Karthik.

How to format a string when pulling from a Dataitem

I seem to be having a problem in getting a string formatted correctly that I'm pulling from a SQL Datasource.

I'm trying to format a Datalist, and more specifically, a Paypal "Add to Cart" button that's supposed to pass several values to another page. The problem I have is with passing the price amount. All the data is in a SQL Express database and the price field is in the database as "money". However it outputs the dollar amount with too many trailing zeros, for example $6.00 is formatted as 6.0000. I'm trying to pass it into the form variable with this code:

<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="<%# DataBinder.eval(Container.dataitem, "Price", "{0}" %>"
Unfortunately, that tends to make include the trailing zeros and mess up the ability to pass the variable. Can anyone help me with how to format this variable so there's no trailing zeros, just so that $6.00 comes out as 6.00 and not 6.0000?

Thanks

Try this and let me know

<%# FormatCurrency(Container.dataitem("Price"), 2) %>

HTH

Regards

|||That looks like it works beautifully.

Thanks so much.

GZR