I have a requirement where I am arranging a large number of responses(text) in form of predefined templates. Depending on the text size, the boxes are allotted to the response. There are three sizes for the boxes. These boxes are then arranged in to defined 10-15 templates.
Since I do not have rights to post image, I am unable to show them here. Hope the idea is conveyed.
I would be displaying the responses in the best matched template. so the final page would be like 5 instances of Template1 followed by two instances of Template3 etc.
Is there any way I can achieve the same in Jasper reports or may be some other tool by which the same can be done to export this to PDF format.
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I am developing a report in Crystal Reports 2013 to publish to a Business Objects server. The user wants it to be able to run to HTML, PDF, Excel, or CSV. If I make it compatible with CSV (a raw data dump with one row per record -- for use downstream by a machine) it will be too wide to fit on one page for the PDF output. We have no direct control of the Business Objects server. This is all done through the cloud application.
...and I'm new to Crystal Reports...
Is there a way to create two sections in the report -- one for CSV and one for PDF -- and have one render (or hide) when the report is run to Excel or CSV and the other render (or hide) when the report is run to HTML or PDF? How?
No, but you can create a parameter that prompts the user for desired layout ("For PDF", "For CSV") and use that parameter in the dynamic expression for section suppress attribute.
Assuming they don't, you can always go to plan B and simply create 2 different reports.
I have a dashboard with three displayed parameters:
Time range (Last month, This month, Last 30 days, ..., custom interval)
From (the begin date of the interval)
To (ending date of interval)
My point is that I want to display "From" and "To" parameters only in case when "Time range" parameter is equal to "Custom interval".
Otherwise, i want to hide them, or make them impossible to edit.
Could you help me with this please ?
Thanks.
There are a handful of techniques for selectively hiding components on a dashboard, informally called "sheet swapping".
One simple approach is to place a floating worksheet in a layer above the components you wish to hide -- and make that worksheet have filters based on calculated fields that lead to zero rows or columns being displayed when you wish to show the components below. Then if you hide the title on the worksheet, it will display as zero pixels high or as its complete height depending on the parameter settings.
Here is an example of that approach https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/gallery/music-uk
Another form of sheet swapping that gives you a little more flexibility is to place the components that wish to selectively display inside a layout container along with a component whose size depends on the parameter setting. Then you can adjust the "fit" options for the worksheets and where and how you place the layout container to make the optional controls slide in and out of the dashboard, or slide beneath or out from under a floating component.
Joshua Milligan published a workbook demonstrating some of these techniques http://public.tableau.com/views/SheetSwappingonSteroids/PracticalExample and he also describes them in his (highly recommended) book Learning Tableau 10
Robert Rouse also published a blog entry showing some fancier sheet swapping techniques https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2016/1/how-create-collapsible-menu-container-tableau-48610
Note, sheet swapping puts a bit of unnecessary load on the Tableau server if overdone (computing layout positions for views that won't be displayed anyway).
If you don't mind a bit of coding, another option is to embed your visualizations within an HTML page of your own design. Then you can use all the power of HTML and CSS to style parts of your UI - including hiding and showing input controls. Then write a bit of JavaScript using Tableau's JavaScript API to let Tableau know when someone updates an HTML control so it can update the visualization in response. For a really robust complex page, that might be a better choice than trying to emulate HTML/CSS with sheet swapping techniques in a Tableau workbook.
I want charts generated for each group to appear in a multi-column format in one group header. I could do it with subreports, but I'm looking for a solution that doesn't require me to load the data set multiple times. How can I achieve this?
Long story short, Crystal isn't a good fit for this.
Even if the number of groups wasn't variable, Crystal reports is fixated on delivering and iterating your records from top to bottom. It's not impossible to structure that, but it would be way more work than it's worth. Plus you'd waste too much time handling the variable number of charts and ensuring unused ones were suppressed. And even then, you'd probably need to use subreports.
You'd have better luck using something other than Crystal for generating this behavior. Even if it meant creating a subreport for the chart and writing a VS program that displayed that report multiple times for each "Group".
I have Access 2010. I was wondering if there is a way to get the form to load different for every selection.
Example
Item A has 10 Rows and 6 columns of filled in data
Item B has 3 Rows and 2 Columns of filled in data
Both are from the same table.
Is there a way when a certain item is selected from a drop down menu to load, without having multiple forms, only the filled in data? Output would resemble Excel format.
Thank you in advance for any help.
Quick Answer (TL;DR)
Creating dynamically-generated form structure in MSFT Access can be done with sub-forms.
Detailed Answer
Context
MSFT Access
Creating forms
Problem
Scenario: Developer wishes to create context-specific form structure that depends on the query output.
Solution
Create one or more sub-form with attached VBA that changes dependent on the query ouput.
Connect the subform(s) to the primary form and load as needed depending on the context.
See also
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ms-access+forms+vba
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=msft+access+dynamic+subform
How to dynamically load, access and unload subforms in microsoft access
I have an SSRS report, the layout based on an Excel spreadsheet. Therefore, I have a lot of drawn lines and rectangles to mimic what Excel would print. I also have two images that are loaded from fields in the database, if they exist for the record. If the images are displayed, I have several lines missing from the report. If the database returns more than one page worth of data, the first page of the report will have all lines, but the rest will be missing those same 5 lines.
Has anyone run into a situation where drawing elements would simply disappear from a SSRS/RDL report?
We simply removed all the text boxes and re-drew them. Still don't know why we had the problem in the first place.