I have a birt report with excel output. I want to make the sheet direction right to left.
I try to do this via adding new style, but the style just make the text in cells right to left, not the direction of excel sheets itself.
This is an unresolved issue in BIRT. The report orientation does not work for XLS/XLSX. It might be either because of the way BIRT transmits BIRT-elements into excel cells or simply because no XLS-transmitter supports the feature. However, it does at least work for PDF - if that helps.
Eventually, you might just want to recreate that report with the desired orientation. To "align" elements like a headline most-right, you usually create a grid with a number of colums that equals or exceeds the number of columns of the data table. Then you put the headline element in the right-most cell of that grid.
Hope you find a way!
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I know how tricky it is to align things in a way that allows a clean export to excel, however, on this one I am stumped and have never seen it before.
Anyone know why the excel rendering extension insists on inserting a column like in the attached image?
Things that I have tried.
Set the table's position to 0,0.
Removed all borders and padding.
Set the report margins to 0,0,0,0
NOTE : I am using the EXCELOPENXML rendering format as opposed to EXCEL in order to support *.xlxs.
Groupings:
First Column in the Designer:
The report was being rendered as a sub report and was placed in a rectangle and aligned right in the main report, however, the rectangle was one twip off from left align. Once I aligned the rectangle in the main report, the phantom column disappeared.
I'm looking to set up a scroll bar in Excel that corresponds to what set of data I use for a chart. I have built a 2-value doughnut chart that acts as a percentage gauge (green section is completed and grey is 100% minus the completed part).
I want to be able to choose what month's data I use for this chart using the scroll bar. All I can seem to find online is how to modify the number of rows and columns that are displayed on a graph rather than actually using the scroller to pick what data to display.
In addition, how would I make it default to the current month? Any help would be appreciated!
For anyone that is looking for a similar solution, I have figured it out. It works with something called a dynamic range. Use the value of the scrollbar to determine the offset of rows (pick which row of data to use). Then link that dynamic range to your chart in place of where you would select the data.
I have a Table in an SSRS report. one of the Table Cells contains the Descriptions of Parts in an order. these descriptions could vary in length and for that reson i have set the "CanGrow" Property to True. when i try to export the report to Excel im expecting that if the text length would exceed the width of the Cell then the height of the cell would grow and the whole text would be shown. Unfortunately the SSRS Excel Generator keeps the height as is and so only the part of the text which fits the width of the cell would be shown.
i would appreciate any help or input to solve this problem.
Thanks
I've found that instead of removing any elements before the tablix, you can change their width to match that of the page.
I found the solution of the same problem! :)
Set the "CanGrow" Property to False for all cells from one row.
And also set the "Height" Property to your specific size.
This is how the Report Viewer's Excel renderer works. You cannot change the way it exports the excel file, however, there are other ways to resolve your issue.
Write your own Excel Renderer (not a good idea -- time consuming)
Fix the column widths before exporting
After exporting to Excel, edit the Excel file via COM calls
My suggestion is #2 -- You can load the RDLC file in memory, and do your modifications there, then call the ReportViewer export function for that altered report.
If you have elements before your tablix this can stop the growth. I've found that removing all elements before the tablix will restore the desired row-growth/auto-fit behaviour. I have not found a better solution yet.
I have a report I am doing with SSRS 2008 with some rows that have multiple elements inside them. On the preview the row automatically expands to support the extra elements but however when I export the report to Excel it appears only as a single row with just the one element displayed, although all the elements are there when I double click the row or manually expand it.
I've checked everything...Can grow is set to true and the properties on the text box allows it's height to increase however it seems to ignore these.
Here it is in the preview
http://tinypic.com/r/b4wbdg/8
In Excel
http://tinypic.com/r/r084g3/8
Sorry about the links to the pictures and not in this question
Both CanGrow and CanShrink properties should be set to false. There is nothing like CanGrow and CanShrink in Excel. By setting them to false it will display the height as it is. Otherwise it will set the height to a default value.
This worked for me. Check this Row height not preserved when exporting to Excel thread for more suggestions.
Came across this (again) recently and thought I'd share my take...
Whether Excel correctly renders the height has to do with merged columns. Take note of your column alignments throughout all objects on the page. Any objects not tied to the data table itself (or embedded inside the data table) must be aligned with the columns of the table in question, at least for the cells that need to wrap text. If there is any overlap causing the table columns to be split and the cells of wrapped text to be re-merged, Excel will not recognize the row height by either setting the CanGrow to True or snapping the row to fit within Excel.
In the original post, the user mentioned rows with multiple elements inside of them. It is possible that those elements caused the column to split for the surrounding subtotals or adjacent groups with wrapped text.
Setting the CanGrow to False will simply prevent any automatic sizing of the row height by default for both the web view and Excel export, so I don't know if that's the ideal solution to this problem.
Both CanGrow and CanShrink properties should be set to false
This must be done for all cells in the row of the Tablix!!
Otherwise the data is not properly exported.
reduce the widths of the rows and it fixed my problem
I remove the header of the report, and all works perfectly.
I have other reports and I see now that if I remove the textboxes that are included on the sheet when exporting to excel, then the row heights in excel are sized properly.
I know this is an old question but I've been struggling with it. My issue was that I had a second field in a column where I inserted a placeholder underneath the field in the column. When exporting to Excel I wanted it to be tall enough that the second field would show underneath the main field in the column.
To get it to work for me, I inserted a blank column next to it and made it just wide enough for a single character. Then I click and hit enter several times to force it to be multiple lines. When I export, I have a blank column but otherwise it worked for me.
I can usually find an answer to the problems I'm having via a quick google search, but this one I'm struggling to even form the question in order to locate an answer.
I'm trying to find out whether it is possible to use Excel Tooltips to display cell data. For example, on mouse over: a tooltip appears displaying the cell values from selected cells, preferably with some plain text but not essential.
i.e. I have an overview table which simplifies data from another table but want said cell values to appear on mouse over.