I am working with Visual Studio 2010 ReportViewer WinForms.
I have been unable to figure out how to fix the rectangle height in a report. I've tried using a table within the rectangle, also a table in a sub report that is placed in the rectangle of the main report with no success.
Basically, I am setting up an invoice-type report that must keep its' form and should not be allowed to grow so that elements are pushed onto a second page.
Both rectangle and tables will always grow vertically based on the content. There is no way to really stop this.
There are a couple of properties that might be able to help you get the correct page breaking in place:
KeepTogether indicates whether to keep all sections of the data region together on pane page.
When set on true and the region is to large to fit the page, this will add a page-break before the start of the region to try and fit as much as possible on a single page.
So if you wish for the region to start at the initial location but break afterwards, make sure this is to false.
PageBreak has the parameter BreakLocation which can be used to determine a fixed place to add a page-break. You can set it on Start, End, StartAndEnd or Between.
You could split your report in fixed pages and use these to add standard page-breaks in the desired (fixed) locations.
These properties alone might not be enough to get your desired result. Especially when working with tables it is hard to add a page-break after a fixed amount of rows.
It is hard to give you a detailed description of a possible approach with the amount of information you gave me, but here is some general advice.
You should split your data in the correct intervals before sending the datasource to the reporter. You can for example use grouping to place them in the correct intervals and add page-breaks based on the grouping.
Another solution is to add them in separate containers, this will require you to have enough spare data regions at your disposal. If there are too many you can always hide the empty ones based on an expression set for the Hidden property.
It won't be easy to set this up correctly so that it can dynamically grow. It takes a lot of puzzling from your end but pretty much any layout should be possible to achieve.
I wish I could give you a more specific solution to your problem and am willing to help you further if you give me an example to work with. But ultimately this is something you should be able to achieve on your own.
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We are developing an application in C# and WPF, that requires the user to select one or more items in a 2D area using the mouse in order to edit their corresponding properties in text fields below it. I am new to C# and WPF and currently trying to figure out the best way to implement this.
The figure below shows a scetch of what I have in mind. Each circle represents an item of the same type whose properties/values can differ between instances. The user should be able to select a single or multiple items using either Mouse-Click, Mouse-Click+Ctrl, or Mouse-Drag (by selecting an area). Furthermore it would ideal if similarly columns and/or rows could selected by selecting one or more of their numbers/letters.
Furthermore the color of the items should change border-color to signal their selection-status (selected vs. unselected) and fill-color to signal their contained values and make groups of identical items easily identifiable.
The number of shown items (cirlces) needs to scale to at least 400. In the future perhaps 2000 or more, so performance could become an issue. By then the area would likely also have to be zoomable. However at the moment ease of implentation has highest priority.
I am currently reading up on WPF and it seems, that the unified grid along with templating to fill it might be an option. However, I am unsure if the performance will be sufficient(?).
I am hopeful, that someone has already implemented something similar and perhaps could recommend a direction for further investigation. Thanks in advance and best regards.
I'm working on a LineGraph control which consists many DependencyProperties that affect how the control should display its data. For example, the control contains the following properties to affect its axes:
AxisStroke - Color of the axes.
AxisThickness - Stroke thickness of the axes.
It also contains properties for display numbers & tick marks
VerticalTicks - True/False to indicate whether or not ticks appear along the vertical axis
HorizontalTicks - True/False to indicate whether or not ticks appear along the horizontal axis
VerticalMin - Minimum value on the vertical axis (numeric)
VerticalStep - The distance in between each vertical tick
VerticalMax - Maximum value on the vertical axis (numeric)
HorizontalMin - Minimum value on the horizontal axis (numeric)
HorizontalStep - The distance in between each horizontal tick
HorizontalMax - Maximum value on the horizontal axis (numeric)
And many more properties exist to allow for different line styles on a single graph (LineColor, LineThickness, DataPointShape, and DataPointIcon to name a few).
My goal is to be able to call out my LineGraph in XAML to insert it into a Window. I would like to be able to specify each of these settings inside the XAML as well, and see the new rendered image of the control in the WPF designer.
Now, given there is a lot of geometric shapes to render on the LineGraph, I though using a Canvas would be a good choice to render the data. Unfortunately, when I'm working in XAML, I cannot perform computations for the locations of shapes based on the control's width & height.
And yes, the shapes' locations must be computed because the data points for the graph are dynamic and the tick-related information is dynamic. Not to mention, I would like to display the actual values along each axis of the LineGraph.
So, I thought I might be able to display this control as if I was doing the rendering in C# code. Other windowing frameworks sometimes provide a Render method that can be used for laying out all of the sub-components.
Doing this, however, doesn't seem possible since WPF relies heavily on XAML for the visual appearance of controls. Also, requiring that the WPF designer must display the LineGraph based on the properties and data specified, it doesn't seem like C# code would solve the problem.
I suppose my questions are these:
How can I render data dynamically inside of a WPF control?
Am I able to specify in C# how my control is rendered, allowing the WPF designer to reflect it?
Side Note:
I've done quite a bit of research, but I am only finding information on how to implement more simple types of controls. If you know of any references that contain information on this topic, please feel free to post them in addition to your answers. I will be more than happy to learn how to do this completely.
EDIT:
I've created a graph using Excel to elaborate what the LineGraph control might look like if it has correct data and properties.
I will answer this based on my experience on implementing custom built graphing libraries in WIN32, WinForm, WPF, WinCE, WP8+WinRT, ....and even on a FPGA :)
It's extremely difficult to implement one from scratch. It may seem easy at first but you will run into a lot of "What should I do if this happens?". For example, in your above graph it seems you got a DataPoint # (5,100) it graphs it pretty well. But lets say, I add another DataPoint # (5.000000005, 0). How would you handle that in your code? Would you say that each pixel on the graph represents an exact value on the X-Axis, or does each pixel represent a range of X-Values?
I would recommend that you use an already establish library to do what you want to do unless you need something very specific like lets say you need horizontal cursors on the graph (think Tektronix Oscilloscope) and you need to calculate some values in between the two cursors.. then maybe you need to implement your own custom one or build on top of an open source one.
So, if you are still adamant of creating your own custom control here are answers to your questions.
How can I render data dynamically inside of a WPF control?
You can use a WriteableBitmap and create your own primitive drawing library from that. After you're done rendering, set it as the ImageSource of your control.
Or you can use WriteableBitmapEx which has GDI like drawing functions already implemented for you.
WriteableBitmapEx CodePlex Page, I also think you can just get it from NuGet as well.
You can also use a <Canvas> and add UI elements to that as well.
Am I able to specify in C# how my control is rendered, allowing the WPF designer to reflect it?
This depends on how you create your controls, but yes you can create Properties in your custom control that will appear in the Designer. Allowing you to change it thus updating the display. I would read a lot of tutorials about writing your own custom user control library. They can explain it better than I can in a SO answer. If you implement the properties correctly it should like so.....
Full Size Image: http://i.stack.imgur.com/pmevo.png
After changing the Number of Rows from 15 to 10 and the starting Y offset to -1 (thus moving the graph up and making the rows a lot taller)
Full Size Image: http://i.stack.imgur.com/0RKnA.png
Here's something I've not been able to solve. We've moved over from FONET to Reporting to provide decent PDF exporting and printing. There's no (free) way to print generated PDF's we could find without using an outdated version of Adobe Reader, and we can't install a third party program everywhere.
We are making invoices this way, with a variable numbers of invoice lines (which are variable in height too), and an optional remark. This in a subreport. At the bottom of the last page, we want the totals without VAT, the total VAT and the totals including VAT. When there is no VAT in this invoice, these lines are hidden.
However, there is no way we found to anchor these totals to the bottom of the last page. We are already using the footer to show something on each page, and abusing the header to show the column headers for the invoice lines, as the row headers are not repeated on the next page.
What we've tried:
- We've tried adding a footer to the invoice lines subreport to show this, but this can't contain a Tablix and doesn't show.
- Adding whitespace between the invoice lines and totals only works with a few invoice lines. When more than 4, it places the totals on the beginning of the next page. Removing the whitespace places the totals right after the invoice lines, while we want it at the bottom of the last page.
- We could work around this in FONET, by using an absolute table, but we have not seen this possibility in Reporting.
- We would use another system if it's simply not possible. We need something which supports designing, tables which can be populated with DataSets or IEnumerables, anchoring, embedded images, direct printing and exporting to PDF. Localization (strings based on language using default resource files) support would be a huge plus.
Thanks in advance,
Nick
My answer is a year late, but maybe this will help someone
Had a similar problem while printing an envelope cover with a title at the bottom. I found questions like yours, but no answers. After banging my head for a couple of hours, i've got it.
Keep the controls with variable heights in a rectangle & make the rectangle as lengthy as you wish and keep the other controls (which you wish to print after a variable gap) below the rectangle - Check the image below
Now, if the 'CanGrow' controls inside the rectangle grows, it does so without pushing the controls outside the rectangle. But beware, if the controls grow beyond the size of the rectangle, then the rectangle will grow & push the rest down.
That's it. But Wait!!! I moved this report from VS 2008 to ReportBuilder 2 (& 3) and this did not work. After pulling my hair for another 2 hours - here's the issue
Select the Report (not the body) and set the 'ConsumeContainerWhitespace' property to True for this to work. Whitespaces are consumed both to the right & bottom within a container - I guess this is the default & only behavior in VS 2008 & VS 2005's report runtime.
-I've been developing on the .Net platform for the past 6 years, comfortable with almost everything, but this damned fine reporting component never fails to annoy me!
I am trying to create a Report with two columns.
Records should add in as below...
1.Bob 6.Sarch
2.Sue 7.Barrie
3.Adam 8.James
4.Dave 9.Steve
5.Robin 10.Euan
11.Fred
12.Heidi
13.Liz
For the first column (1-5 in this example), a page break should wrap the data to the second column (6-10). After the second column is full (11-13) the the data should page wrap.
The data used to generate the report will have a fixed number of columns. The height and width required for the data will not change.
I am using with C#, WinForms, .net4. I have tried several various approaches with no success. Thus far I have only managed
1.Bob 2.Sue
3.Adam...
Please help or point me in the right direction :-)
Many Thanks
TL;DR ---> This isn't possible with SSRS, afaik.
If I understand correctly, you want to list the items in a data set, that when rendered with a hard page break renderer will render with these requirements:
items are added vertically as long as there's space on the page
a new column of items is started when the first column ran out of space, vertically
a page break is inserted when the second column filled up the vertical space, thus starting a new, first column on a new page
Now, there's only these controls in SSRS:
Textbox
Table, Matrix
Chart
Gauge
List
Image
Subreport
Line, Rectangle
Out of these only the Tablix (Table/Matrix) and List are remotely capable of such a thing, but they can't satisfy your requirements. I'm afraid the answer to your question is that this can't be (easily) done.
The hard way that this may still be possible is perhaps by creating a custom report item and/or by creating a custom rendering extension. But that may be overkill for just wanting to create a nice little list.
I have a very specific problem using C# and a Windows MDI Form application. I want to display two (or more) images to the user, a 'left' and a 'right' image. The names of the images are concealed from the user, and then the user selects which image they prefer (this is part of a study involving medical image quality, so the user has to be blinded from possibly relevant capture parameters which might be revealed in the image name). Instead of showing the actual names, substitute names like 'image 0' and 'image 1' (etc) are shown to the user.
Whenever I use the standard MDILayout.TileVertical or TileHorizontal, the images are loaded in reverse order. For example, if I have image 0 and image 1, they are displayed
Image 1 Image 0
Three or more images would be something like
2 1 0
or
3 2
1 0
And so forth. The problem is, my users are confused by this right to leftness, and if I have another dialog box that asks them which image is better (or to rate the displayed images), they always confuse the order of images on the screen with the order of images in the dialog box. That is, if I just order the images 0 1 2 3 etc in a ratings dialog, they assume that image 3 as it's displayed is image 0 in the MDI parent window, image 2 is image 1, etc-- they read left to right, and the images are being displayed right to left. If I reorder the tabs in the ratings dialog box to reflect the order on the screen, that just confuses them further ("Why is image 3 before image 2?") and the results come out in the wrong order, and are generally unusable.
So, how do I force the ordering of displayed windows using MDILayout in C#? Do I have to do it by hand, or is there some switch I can send to the layout manager?
Thanks!
Why are you using an MDI interface? Surely a single window with a TableLayoutPanel or similar providing layout would be more suitable. The only reason you'd want to use a MDI layout is to allow the users to move the windows, which as far as I can tell from your description of the problem isn't desirable anyway?
Another idea would be to put the actual rating mechanism at the bottom of each child window. So the answer is actually attached to the picture on their child windows instead of having the answers in their own area.
Could you avoid this problem by (before displaying the images) you:
Put the image references in a structure (array or similar).
Have a recursive function build a reverse order structure (or reorder the original).
Use the new reversed order structure to build your child windows as before.
It would add one more layer but might solve your problem if no one finds the reverse layout order switch soon enough.
I strongly recommend following Groky's advice and using a single-form interface rather than MDI for this.
If you must use MDI, you need to know that the MDI layout methods use the Z-order of MDI forms to determine where the forms end up. For example, if image 2 is behind image 1, then image 1 will be on the left and image 2 will be on the right. The most logical way to cause this to happen would be to load image 2's form, then image 1's form, then do the MDI layout. You can also use the ActivateMdiChild method to put the forms in a particular order (activating one form puts the other forms behind it).
It's complicated and error-prone, and I strongly recommend having a two-pane interface on a single form instead, but this will work.
Thanks Owen and Groky, but the Single-Form interface is just not going to work. First, I already have the display code in the MDI format, so that rewrite would require a very, very large rewrite of the code. It took me about three weeks to write the basics of the app a while ago; these aren't jpgs I'm showing here, these are DCM images, and each one is a good 30 mb, with a variety of support tools that I haven't seen outside of medical imaging.
Second, some radiologists don't like split screening for image comparison, and others require it. As such, to accommodate both kinds of users, I set this up with tiling, but then the user can maximize images and then switch between them. So, MDI is the right approach for that differing set of tastes; a single interface with a very complicated set of tab controls just sounds like a nightmare compared to an already extant and (for the most part) working system.
However, since I do control the way in which images are displayed, I can force the z-ordering, and then that should work, right? That's the basis of Fred and Owen's answers, if I'm reading them properly. The user enters 'evaluation mode', and then the program loads the images, shows them, and only once the user has entered an evaluation are the images closed. Given that constraint, I can probably enforce a particular z ordering (maybe by looping from length to 0 rather than from 0 to length).