Reports

Form letter?
Hi, We send out a satisfaction survey each week and I thought I could save my administrative assistant some time by eliminating the mail merge step and just create the form letter out of SSRS. Right from the get-go I'm struggling. What is the best way to add the boiler plate text to the report? Do I simpl... 16 Feb 2010 18:24

Displaying Parameters in the Report Title
I would like to have a dynamic Report Title that includes the Start_Date and End_Date parameters I have for a report. I have had no luck finding this information elsewhere on the internet. So, the report title would be "Number of Letters between @Start_Date and @End_Date" Thanks. ... 14 Feb 2010 03:03

Printing Barcode Font in RS2008
We have several reports that use custom barcode fonts, and these have been working happily for ages. We have recently deployed our reports to a sql2008 instance and have hit a big problem. The Report Previews correctly in Reporting services (i.e. the user sees the barcode) The report previews AND prints co... 16 Feb 2010 12:57

Pagebreak between group footers
I have a report that is grouped by Salesperson, then by customer. The footer for the customer group totals some fields for that specific customer then the footer for the Salesperson group totals some fields for all the customers that fall under that salesperson. The problem is, I need that salesperson total fo... 12 Feb 2010 10:04

Font is not proper in PDF?
Hi , I have created custom report item. In this custom report item , i have created some text using System.drawing; It looks proper in report at the time of preview. But when i save the report into pdf it does not look proper. It is distorted in pdf. Can anyon e help. ... 11 Feb 2010 12:49

turning off case sensitivity
Is there a configuration option to turn off case sensitivity in the BID/visual Studio reporting IDE/etc.? Our db collation sequence is case-insensitive so I know the problem is with reporting services. My problems begins when i modify some SQL - changing the case of a column accidently...BID then reports a 'mi... 10 Feb 2010 16:50

End of Support Date for Report Builder 1.0
We are looking to configure an environment that uses SQL Server 2008 Report Services and a majority of the team would like to use Report Builder 2.0. Howerver, some members have would like to use only Report Builder 1.0. Is there a defined end of support date for Report Builder 1.0? Is there any known issues... 12 Feb 2010 14:37

Subtract date problem
Hi there, I'm using SSRS 2008 I have period end like 1/19/2010 field and I want to generate -5 days (seperate textbox) from it like 1/15 1/16 1/17 1/18 1/19 I try =MyFileld.value - 1 and I got an error How do I sbtract day fron date field? I did also Month(myfield.value)&"/"&Day(myfield.value)-1 it wor... 11 Feb 2010 09:26

Error Message:
Am I wrong or has this not been fixed?? I've got VS SP1 and this problem is still occuring when I use an SSAS cube as the datasource. It's an absolute nightmare going through the xml code to remove all references and I can't expect normal SSRS report writers to be manually removing all references to deleted parameter... 10 Feb 2010 07:47

converting Crystal Reports to RS
SQL 2005 I'm brand new to Reporting Services, but have been a SQL developer for years. Up to this point all my reporting has been done using Crystal Reports. I'm trying to convert some existing reports from Crystal Reports to Reporting Services. So far I'd have to say I'm not impressed with RS as far as i... 28 Feb 2010 06:43