Data in SSRS Report Header

Tim — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:06:39 +0000

Here is a tip for displaying data from data-sets into the Page Header/Footer of a SSRS report. Traditional the hacky way of performing such tasks is to have a hidden text-box in the body of the report with the respective data-set field value. You can then get the value of this text-box in your page header doing the following: =ReportItems!txtBox1.Value. The major issue here is that the data is not available on multiple pages, so if your report has a large data set you will notice the value will not be shown on each page.

A better solution is to create a new internal report parameter that references a field value from the selected data set. You can make the report parameter internal and reference it in your report header by doing the following: =Parameters!myParameter.Value.

Its cleaner and is available on every page.

References:

http://geekswithblogs.net/Bunch/archive/2008/03/05/data-into-a-ssrs-header-again.aspx

Vertical Text Rotation in SSRS Text Boxes

Tim — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:16:04 +0000

If you are trying to make text display/rotate vertically, try changing the text box’s writing mode to tb-rl.

References:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms189363.aspx

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