Comments on: Custom Visibility Toggling in SSRS

By: Luke Hayler

Luke Hayler — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:35:54 +0000

Hi ness,

True and false are key words, so there’s no need to enclose them in quotes.

=IIF(parameters!myparam.value=1, True, False)

Should work.

By: Ness

Ness — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:18:59 +0000

Hi Luke,

I have 2 list control and each list I put a table control inside it . How can I hide and show the list and it’s table base onthe value of a parameter?

This is the expression I put in the “show or hide based on expressionion” under visiblity property of both the first list and the table inside it:

=IIf (Parameters!Segment.Value = 1, “True”,”False”)

Here the Segment is a parameter with 1 and 2 values..

When I execute the SSRS 2008, the error I got is:

“An Error Occured during local report processing. The Hidden expressopn used in the tablix ‘Tablix 6′ return a data type that is not valid”

“Tablix 6″ here is the name of my first list control.

This report works fine when I didn’t apply the expression in the show/hide expression. Did I missed something?

Your help will be appreciated.

Thanks, Ness

By: Luke Hayler

Luke Hayler — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:09:04 +0000

Justin,

If you were still looking;

http://www.lukehayler.com/2010/02/custom-visibility-toggling-ssrs-2008/

By: Visibility Toggling in SSRS 2008 | Luke Hayler - SQL Server developer

Visibility Toggling in SSRS 2008 | Luke Hayler - SQL Server developer — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:06:05 +0000

[...] while back I wrote a post about how to toggle the visibility of rows/columns in tables/matrices for SSRS 2005. In the comments of that article someone asked how this was done in SSRS 2008. The short answer was [...]

By: Luke Hayler

Luke Hayler — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:06:37 +0000

Hi Justin,

Set the Visibility>Hidden property of the Cell/group to False. You’ll need to change the ToggleItem’s InitialAppearance property to Expanded though, otherwise the view won’t match the toggle (‘+’ / ‘-’) state. Note – the group properties can be accessed using the tab at the bottom of the design screen (SSRS 2008).

I’m busy preparing another article on Visibility settings in SSRS 2008, so check back Monday or follow @lukehayler for blog updates.

By: Luke Hayler

Luke Hayler — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:57:59 +0000

Hi Akshar,

I don’t think you can hide the ‘+’ sign outright, but you can change its state (‘+’ or ‘-’).

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:27:10 +0000

Thanks for the write up. Question, I’m using SSRS 2008 and want to defaul my matrix to open or (Expanded) upon initial startup. Any thoughts on how to do this in 2008

By: Akshar

Akshar — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:49:52 +0000

Hi i got a requirement on this, can any one try this out
i am using a tablix(ssrs 2008) in which i am setting the toggling property (row visibility) for the second row based on a field in the first cell in the first row.
its all working good, but now i need to hide the “+” sign when there are no records to be shown. is this possible

By: Mona

Mona — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:09:40 +0000

Thank you Luke.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:12:08 +0000

Hello,

thank you very much for your explanation. I was a little bit confused, because I’ve not that field at the visibility tab for the specified textbox. But I found the solution.

Click the textbox where the toggle-item is shown and open the “Properties”-Box for the textbox.
There you find an entry called “InitialToggleState” which you can set to “true”,”false” or an expression. Thats it. *THUMBS UP*

Have fun.

Greetings from germany.

Thomas