First let me thank you for giving back to the community! Not many people take the time these days to help others, so thanks!

I am new to the SSRS thing as I have always Crystal Reports, but this time I do not have that option. I have read the latest iteration of SSRS is very powerful, but I cant even get some of the simplest things to work right.

When using the Report Builder it only allows you to save to the “.rdl” extension. Can Report Builder 3.0 save to “.rdlc”? Can “.rdl” be converted to “.rdlc”?

The “Interactive Page Size” and “Page Size” properties for a blank report specify the standard letter size of “8.5×11″. However, the “Body” section of the report defaults to “6×2.25″. I really dont understand the purpose or implications of this, nor do I understand “Interactive Page Size” versus “Page Size”

I am sure all of this info is buried in many places on the web, but your succinct explanation of your initial post leads me to believe that you could boil this all down to a simple answer.

Thanks Luke!
Jim

As per the comment just above yours….

You can force the rectangles to a certain size, as long as that size is bigger than the object which it contains. It’s a bit of a hack but, place line object on the right-hand extreme and one on the bottom extreme. Make these Lines transparent to hide them when the report renders. The lines will limit how much the rectangle auto-sizes and will ensure that the rectangle holds its intended shape.

With regard to printing; See this post about sizing your page correctly

Glad you noticed that little gotcha. As far as I am aware, you cannot fix the size of the rectangle through properties. You can however, fix the minimum height/width of the rectangle by placing a line item at the point at which you want to constrain the rectangle. This is a bit of a work around, but will get what you want. I don’t believe you can set a maximum size constraint on the rectangle though.

Thanks.