Designer changing report element sizes during a save

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Using SQL Server Reporting Services Designer Version 9.00.1399.00
I'm having trouble with a three column report with a page header the width
of the page. The designer is changing the width of elements when it is
saved. As long as you view the report in the designer, the report renders as
you would expect, but when it gets saved, some of the report elements get
changed.
Try this:
New empty Report Server Project
Add new empty report (Add -> New Item -> Select Report)
No datasource
Enable page header
Add a text box (textbox1) to page header. Make it begin at the left
margin/top margin and be almost the width of the page (6in).
Set the height of the page header to the height of the textbox1.
Insert five or six words in textbox1.
Make the report a 3 column report.
Reset the page header width to be 6.5in (1in right/left margins on 8.5in
paper) using the resizer in the page header.
The column width should be 1.83333in (1.83333 * 3 = 5.49999 + [column
spacing] 0.5in + 0.5in = 6.49999in)
Add a text box (textbox2) to the body (in column 1). Make it begin at the
left margin/top margin and be almost the width of the column (1.625in).
Insert a few words in textbox2.
View the report. Appears to be fine.
Save, Close the report, Reopen the report.
The width of the page header is now 6in (was 6.5in), column width is now
1.66667in (was 1.83333in)
Why did the width of the page header change?
Make the width of the page header and textbox1, 6.5in.
Save, Close the report, Reopen the report.
The page header is 6.499999in wide, but textbox1 is the same width as one of
the columns in the body (1.83333in)
Why did the width of the page header and textbox1 change?
Make textbox1 6in wide again.
Make the report 6.5in wide.
Add a new textbox (textbox3) in the page header to the right of textbox1
(starts at 6in, 0.5in wide), same height as the first one.
Insert a few letters in textbox3.
Save, Close the report, Reopen the report.
The report is now 6in wide (instead of 6.5in), columns are 1.66667in wide.
Textbox3 that was just added to the page header cannot be seen. It is at
the right edge of the page header, and has a negative width. It can only be
found using dropdown in the properties window.
Why did textbox3 disappear/get a negative width?
Are these known bugs? Are there any work arounds?Hello,
From your desscription, I tried to reproduce the issue to no avail. To
understand the issue better, will you please send the report project or
report to me? You could remove "online" in my displayed email address. I
know the report will be changed after saving, and reopen, however, you
report shall make me understanding your problem more directly. thank you!
Also, since you did not install SQL 2005 sp1, you may want to install it to
test the sitaution.
If you have other related information, please also let's know. We look
forward to your reply.
Best Regards,
Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Community Support
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==================================================This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.|||Im having the same error!! I have 2 reports that have mutliple columns. When
I save the report, it will change the text boxes in the header to negative
values. I have not found a work around for this error. Anyone have any
suggestions/Have run into the same problem as well?
-Theresa
"AOTX San Antonio" wrote:
> This is a repost using MSDN Subscription
> Using SQL Server Reporting Services Designer Version 9.00.1399.00
> I'm having trouble with a three column report with a page header the width
> of the page. The designer is changing the width of elements when it is
> saved. As long as you view the report in the designer, the report renders as
> you would expect, but when it gets saved, some of the report elements get
> changed.
> Try this:
> New empty Report Server Project
> Add new empty report (Add -> New Item -> Select Report)
> No datasource
> Enable page header
> Add a text box (textbox1) to page header. Make it begin at the left
> margin/top margin and be almost the width of the page (6in).
> Set the height of the page header to the height of the textbox1.
> Insert five or six words in textbox1.
> Make the report a 3 column report.
> Reset the page header width to be 6.5in (1in right/left margins on 8.5in
> paper) using the resizer in the page header.
> The column width should be 1.83333in (1.83333 * 3 = 5.49999 + [column
> spacing] 0.5in + 0.5in = 6.49999in)
> Add a text box (textbox2) to the body (in column 1). Make it begin at the
> left margin/top margin and be almost the width of the column (1.625in).
> Insert a few words in textbox2.
> View the report. Appears to be fine.
> Save, Close the report, Reopen the report.
> The width of the page header is now 6in (was 6.5in), column width is now
> 1.66667in (was 1.83333in)
> Why did the width of the page header change?
> Make the width of the page header and textbox1, 6.5in.
> Save, Close the report, Reopen the report.
> The page header is 6.499999in wide, but textbox1 is the same width as one of
> the columns in the body (1.83333in)
> Why did the width of the page header and textbox1 change?
> Make textbox1 6in wide again.
> Make the report 6.5in wide.
> Add a new textbox (textbox3) in the page header to the right of textbox1
> (starts at 6in, 0.5in wide), same height as the first one.
> Insert a few letters in textbox3.
> Save, Close the report, Reopen the report.
> The report is now 6in wide (instead of 6.5in), columns are 1.66667in wide.
> Textbox3 that was just added to the page header cannot be seen. It is at
> the right edge of the page header, and has a negative width. It can only be
> found using dropdown in the properties window.
> Why did textbox3 disappear/get a negative width?
> Are these known bugs? Are there any work arounds?|||Hello Theresa
,
I have reproduced the issue on my side. It seems that when adding textbox
or change textbox, it does not actually perform an optimization of the
report according to the algorithm that used when saving a report. I found
if I change the textbox1 width to 6 to 6.5, this size is not actually saved
to rdl and the width number is not stored at all. At this time, textbox1
actually has the 6.5 when rendering since it is aligned to the body width
1.83333 automatically.
Please rest assured your feedback is taken seriously this issue has been
reported to the product team. Product team may evaluate the business impact
and decide to fix this or not. If there is any update, we will let you
know.
You may manually edit rdl and set textbox in pageheader to the value it
should be to work around the issue. In the meantime, I also encourage you
submit your feedback on this issue via the link below
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/default.aspx
Best Regards,
Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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======================================================|||Hello Every One,
I came across this issue and found a good work around for this.
Whenever you have the textbox's right margin alligned with the right
margin of a rectangle in a Page Header, we see this behavour in a multi
column report.
Work around: We suggest to keep a minimal gap between the textbox right
edge and the container and make the container border as none. This
makes it retain the width attribute in the rdl file and we dont loose
its width after saving.
Best Regards,
Dipanjan Banik
SQL Developer Support
Peter Yang [MSFT] wrote:
> Hello Theresa
> ,
> I have reproduced the issue on my side. It seems that when adding textbox
> or change textbox, it does not actually perform an optimization of the
> report according to the algorithm that used when saving a report. I found
> if I change the textbox1 width to 6 to 6.5, this size is not actually saved
> to rdl and the width number is not stored at all. At this time, textbox1
> actually has the 6.5 when rendering since it is aligned to the body width
> 1.83333 automatically.
> Please rest assured your feedback is taken seriously this issue has been
> reported to the product team. Product team may evaluate the business impact
> and decide to fix this or not. If there is any update, we will let you
> know.
> You may manually edit rdl and set textbox in pageheader to the value it
> should be to work around the issue. In the meantime, I also encourage you
> submit your feedback on this issue via the link below
> http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/default.aspx
> Best Regards,
> Peter Yang
> MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
>
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