When I export a SSRS report to excel, page breaks are made into excel tabs. Is there a limit to the maximum tabs that can be created via this export?
I know there are row/column limitations but was not sure about tabs/page-breaks.
The limit of sheets in a workbook depends on the computer memory.
Look at this article
There is no different in exporting.
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I have a table in Access, more than 300000 records, and I want to export to Excel, but it seems like I can't export more than 65000 records. I've tried the available option without formatting and layout, but all I get is an empty Excel file. Is there a method to solve the issue?
I'm using Windows XP and MS Office 2007.
The Excel XLS workbook format is limited to 65,536 rows. Export to XLSX instead, which can accommodate over a million rows.
I have tried the various different methods that Excel offers to work with external data.
I have inherited a system in work that involves copy and pasting data from one SSRS report into a pretty complex Excel workbook. I want to automate this system, but for the time being I still have to work with the Excel file.
This Excel file needs to be updated daily - I want to schedule the SSRS report using Windows File Sharing; have it run every day and have the Excel workbook look at the report each time the spreadsheet is opened, updating (adding data to) various tables and cells with the values in the report.
I'm finding this process really unstable. It will work for some reports, but not others. Any pivot charts based on the connection will lose their data and formatting if the sheets cannot link to each other. On opening the main, destination excel file, I get errors about links not being updated, etc. Browsing for the file and reconnecting it works, but this defeats the object.
Could the be something integral to these set up working every time that I might be missing, or does Excel have a feature that better suits what I'm trying to do?
Many thanks for your help!
I'm using SQL Server 2005, Excel 2013 and the reports and datasheet are stored in a shared folder
I think you are heading down a dead-end. You will never have enough control over the rendered output from SSRS and any solution will be fragile.
I assume the SSRS data source is SQL or some other source that Excel can read. I would take the Dataset code from the SSRS report and implement it as Data tables in Excel, e.g. Data ribbon / Get External Data.
In the simplest implementation, each query just populates an Excel Table. You can set the connection definitions to auto-refresh on open.
For more complex requirements you can build an Analysis Model in Excel using the Power Pivot Add-In (included (but not enabled) with Excel 2013). This lets you relate datasets to each other and add calculations etc. The gotcha here is that you cant auto-refresh without SharePoint.
Basically, I have an Excel 2003 spreadsheet that I wish to open.
However, it is giving error because it has too many columns.
What is a way of opening this Excel file to view the entire data?
PS. I have Excel 2010 installed as well but unable to open that file.
Additional info: The Excel file is created using SSRS -> Export to Excel. The number of columns in the report varies and when large report range is chosen, it will have "too many" columns.
If you have more than 256 columns you won't be able to use versions of Excel prior to 2007.
It sounds like you're exporting to a pre-2007 workbook (xls) with more than that number.
in 2007+ you can have around 16 thousand columns.
This page has details about how to export to a 2007+ file format (xlsx):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255234(v=sql.110).aspx
Note I think your SQL server may need to be a certain version to use the 2007+ excel renderer, but I have little experience there.
I have a RDL report that runs on SSRS2000.
Today, I am trying to export the report to excel but the error message was:
Excel found unreadable content in 'filename.xls'. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes.
I have noticed there were quite a few columns so I have modified the report to have less column and it was opening up in Excel no problem.
Is there any way for users to export the data in excel and have no issues?
(All columns are necessary)
The older verisons of Excel (up to 2003) support a maximum of 256 columns and 65536 rows. This has nothing to do with Reporting Services, you can't change this. The only options I can think of:
Make sure the report will not exceed the limit of 256 columns (including the columns the renderer generates for example for whitespace between tablixes)
Export to XML or CSV and open/import it in Excel 2007, which can handle 16,384 columns.
I'm trying to export a report to Excel from SSRS reports builder. When I export it to excel i don't want to re-organise the cell size to be able to see the entire data. I've tried using both tables and Textboxes for those cells to be exported as they are, neither worked.. any help will be highly appreciated..
I got it fixed. I had to manually expand the size in the reports builder and set 'can grow' and 'can shrink' to false for each text box. I understand that Excel doesn't support can Grow and can Shrink. Cheers