Just some general formatting questions about return records to a list box on a form:
I have a list box that returns sets of records based on SQL statement in VB. I need the SQl statement to return the ID (auto number) of each record, because if the user selects from this list box, I need the ID as a pass parameter to the next form. But I do not need the ID to show up in the actual list....anyway i can hide this, or just not display it?
I used rowsource like this:
me.searchlist.rowsource = "SELECT TblMain.MainID, TblMain.First, TblMain.MiddleTblMain.Last FROM TblMain ORDER BY TblMain.Last, TblMain.First DESC;"
Also the listbox has no headers, which i want, and has three columns for above example...but each column is way too big, can i control the width size of each column area inside the listbox? I tried the properties window, but that only seems to effect the first column and not all of them.
For the Header, the Listbox has a
property called Column Heads
(default no). Set this to Yes.
For the column widths, the Listbox
has a property for Column Count and
Column Widths. In your case you can set Column Count to 3 and Column
Widths to something like 0;2;3
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First time creating forms to insert into a database.
I'm trying to create a drop down combo box that lists the entries in the second column...
This is in a seperate table. The issue I'm running into is how do I show what's in the Description column, but when I insert into the form, it's corresponding PMRT_Need value is put in the table.
The database is as such that it HAS to be the PMRT_NEED value unfortunately.
Thanks for your time!
After setting the Row Source to your appropriate table/query:
Set the Bound Column to column 1 (i.e. the PMRT_NEED field)
Set the Column Count to 2
Set the Column Widths to something like 0cm;5cm (adjusting the second width to suit your data) such that the first column isn't displayed to the user.
This ensures that your combo box returns the value of the PMRT_NEED field for the selected item, but only the Description is displayed to the user.
I group my table by 3 attributes, and set page break on every group, and now i want to display that three attribute outside the table. I want to place them on the top of the report, and when i type the expression and i go in run view it's display only the first value, when i go to the next page nothing change
I tried to drag field from table, from data set, and nothing working.
In expression i type
=Fields!My_Field.Value.
Also if some of that three attributes i placed in table it normally displays values, but when i try to move it somewhere it stops displaying.
The issue is that a table is associated with a dataset but a text box is not.
You can reference a field from a text box using the Dataset field ( =Sum(Fields!AMOUNT.Value, "Dataset1") ) but you need to use an aggregate function like First, Last, or SUM.
It sounds like you don't want to use an aggregate since you are grouping by these fields, though.
display the three attribute outside the table
If your trying to display the current grouping in the table at the top of each page, add a new Row in your matrix above your header row and add your group fields there.
I have a single tablix on the SSRS report which fetches data from a stored procedure.
I am trying to show a meesage to the User when no data is present say, "** There is no data for this report*". I can do this easily by specifying this message in the **NoRowsMessage property of the tablix. But I want to show the headers of the tablix along with this message.
If I don't set the NoRowsMessage property, I get the headers but no message, but if I do, I get the message but no headers.
I need some help with this.
Note: I am using SSRS 2008.
Edit:
I can also put up a textbox with the relevant text message below the tablix and set it visible only if the tablix contains no rows. But I am not able to figure out as to how do I find out from the Visibility expression of the textbox whether the tablix contains any rows or not.
A tablix object is related to the underlying dataset, so if there's no data, there's no table in the output.
Other than using the NowRowsMessage property, the only other way I can think of to enforce this would be to ensure your query returns an empty value placeholder when there are now rows returned. This way you would have, in essence, a single data row.
You could then try and add a conditional expression on the table (i.e. on the Visibility property of the details row) to prevent any rows containing your placeholder from showing up.
So in your query you could have:
IF (##ROWCOUNT= 0)
BEGIN
SELECT
'[IAMEMPTY]' as [Col1]
,'[IAMEMPTY]' as [Col2]
,'[IAMEMPTY]' as [Col3]
END
And then in the Visibility property of your table's detail row:
=Iif(Fields!Col1.Value = "[IAMEMPTY]",True,False)
EDIT: Alternatively, to check if the DataSet is empty in SSRS and show a rectangle containing your message/headers (as mentioned in TooSik's comment), you could set up a rectangle with this in the Visibility expression:
=Iif(Rownumber("Dataset_Name")=0, False,True)
I have a combo box which is of a lookup type, i.e., I've selected the source to be a column from a table and am storing the selected value in another table. The table which I am looking up has another column and I need the value in this column to be displayed in a text box and each time I change the value in the combo box, I need the corresponding value to be displayed in the text box. How can I do this? What I have done so far is to write a Select query that selects the appropriate column based on the combo box's value. Is there a more decent way of doing this? Please help me!
Make the source of the combo box to your 2 fields e.g. SELECT id, name FROM Customers
Make sure you set the Column Count property of the combo to 2, accordingly.
Then make you unbound text box source equal to =MyCombo.Column(1) (from memory, this Column is zero based).
That's it, zero code required.
It's nicer to use an event of the combo box e.g. onChange, so when a selection is made the event sets the value of the text box.
me!txtTextBox1 = me!cboComboBox1.column(1)
That way it will work everytime.
You could also use a button with onClick etc. but the choice is yours (and as mentioned in the previous post, alter the column number based on its row source with 0 being the first.
After reading the question and answers I tried the following, and it seems to work well (so far):
In order to display more than one column of a combobox selection, I have resorted to the following:
Place a textbox over the combobox,
Size it by sampling other fields, so that it covers the text frame of the combobox.
I have purposely have left a small space to the right of the NEW textbox to indicate that it
Is NOT part of the combobox.
In the Control Source for the textbox enter the expression below:
=[DefaultAcct].[Column](1) & " " & [DefaultAcct].[Column](2)
Then, in the ‘onchange’ event of the combobox, set focus to the textbox.
Private Sub DefaultAcct_Change()
txtConcatenate1.SetFocus
End Sub
I have a matrix in an SSRS 2008 report. The rows are grouped on the Time field, and the columns are grouped on the FieldName field. Pretty standard stuff, you can see the designer view of it below.
This works pretty well, except that in some instances I need to hide the "time" column (highlighted in the image).
I've tried setting the Hidden property, both on the column itself and the individual fields. This leaves a large empty area where the column would normally display. I've tried setting the hidden value for the time row group, but that hides the entire row of data.
Is there any way to hide this information with SSRS 2008?
I was able to find a work-around with a little experimentation. Here's what I did:
Added an adjacent column group to the FieldName column. This column was grouped on Time (the same as the row group).
Set the header of the new column group to always display the text "Time."
Right-clicked on the selection button for this new column and selected "Column Visibility..." from the list. Entered the hidden expression I wanted.
Deleted the original Time column, choosing to retain the associated group.