Create a bookmark and jump to it Bookmarks are also like hyperlinks in web pages but they jump to another part in the same document. Microsoft Word supports adding bookmarks to several locations in the document and makes a provision to jump to them. In web pages the same is achieved by having links and anchors Link . In this section you will create...
Add a gauge to display this average In this section you will add a single gauge in the same column as the others but outside the group and set its value to represent the group average of the second column 1. Click Insert Gauge and drop it on the intersection of the last row. This row is outside the group and the column containing the gauge from...
Add gauges to display the data Gauges add visual features to enhance the aesthetic appearance as discussed earlier. However whether gauges are more appealing than just data is a matter open for discussion. We will see how to add gauges here 1. Click on the report to display the report handles. Right-click the last column and from the drop-down...
Add a report item to display the average value of a column Gauges can show not only item data but they can also be used to show aggregates such as SUM Average and so on. In this section you will be creating another display type of a gauge and associating the average value of a column. 1. Right-click the data cell of second column second column...
Create a chart to display the data The chart you will be creating will be based on the data. You will be using the chart template to begin creating the chart. You will be using the placeholders on the chart to associate data with the details you will be displaying in the chart. 1. Return to the design view of the report by clicking on the Design...
Format a column based on some criterion In the above report in the third column there is a wide variation in the value of the rows. The purpose of this is to demonstrate using a condition in the expression. This section shows how you may use the Expression to set the color of that textbox based on the value it contains when you run the report. 1....
Create a Dataset based on the data in the Excel file Data that gets displayed in a report is obtained from a dataset. In this section you will see how you get a dataset by using a query. 1. Click on the Next button in the New Table or Matrix window. 2. The Design a query page of the New Table or Matrix wizard is displayed. 3. Type in the following...
Create a datasource using a DSN in Report Builder 2.0 After creating the ODBC DSN it will be possible to access the data using Report Builder. The following steps show how you may carry out this task. 1. Open Report Builder 2.0 just as you have done in other exercises. 2. Click on the Office button and choose New in the drop-down. The design surface...
Hands-on exercise 6.3 Creating reports with charts and gauges In this exercise you will be connecting to an Excel spreadsheet with some data and will be creating a simple report. You will also add a chart and gauge data regions to the report to display the data. In authoring the report you will be creating a report using the New Table or Matrix wizard...
Review the imported MS Access report The dataset for the report is DataSet1 on the left and the report body is in the design area. The various report items and their data binding will be examined for one such control the CompanyName. It will be instructive to study the others as well. In order to review the report we will follow these steps 1....
Hands-on exercise 6.2 Modifying a basic report In this exercise the report created in Chapter 4 will be modified to illustrate the formatting layout and other capabilities built into the Report Builder. A number of other features of Report Builder will be taken up in the next chapter. Getting ready This hands-on will be using a MS Access report...
At the very bottom of the Report Builder you will get an indication as to the Report Server you are connected to present case there is only one running and its status as shown in the following screenshot. You can also change from design to run preview by clicking on the respective icons in this figure. You can also enlarge or reduce the size of...
Report Designer pane The various parts of this pane are shown in the following screenshot. This has been described earlier. The choices you make in the View pane will show or hide the Groupings at the bottom as well as in the Ruler. When you want to create a report from scratch and do not want to use the wizards you can delete everything on the report...
Report Data the Report Designer and the properties These are the items that you will find just below the ribbon" assuming you have not disabled Report Data and Properties these are enabled by default as shown in the following screenshot. The properties will be that of the object highlighted in the report body. Report Data As seen...
A subreport is a child of a main report. The main report is a container for the subreport s . The Subreport section in the Insert menu item of the ribbon" allows you to add a subreport. The parent report and the subreport are stored usually in the same folder on the report server. The main report can be designed to pass parameters to the...
This is new in Reporting Services 2008. Like chart gauge is also a data region. Gauge has only a single data region unlike a chart. It has the look of any industrial meters measuring instrument with a range of values and the indicator showing the present value or some configurable value. They can be used together with both table and matrix elements. When...
A picture tells lot more than a bunch of numbers and charts graphs aggregate the whole range of data that is highly informative and aesthetically pleasing. Charts have a myriad of properties both with regard to how they are linked to data as well as their visual properties that it is hard to justify describing them in an abbreviated fashion. This...
The list data region repeats for each row of data. List element provides a single container for the data which can be used to generate what are called Free Form Reports. In this kind of report there is no rigid structure such as a table for the data. You can also place a list inside another list or even a chart inside a list. You can drag a column from...
Matrix provides a similar functionality roughly speaking rows against columns to cross-tab reports in MS Access Resource Link and Pivot Table dynamic views Resource Link . The matrix should have at least one row group and one column group. The matrix can expand both ways to accommodate the data horizontally for column groups and vertically for...
In the Data Regions section you have both the Tablix Table Matrix and List and the graphic controls that can be bound to data& 8212; the Chart and the Gauge. Gauge is new in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008. Chart and gauge implementations are the off shoot of collaboration with Dundas http www.dundas.com . Report Builder is built in such...