Luke Hayler - SQL Server developer

Sometimes

Sometimes, just having the right information in a report doesn’t completely fill the requirement. You can enrich the content by formatting items in your report using some simple formatting codes. Follow these steps:

- Right-click the field(s) you want to format
- Choose Properties & navigate to the Format tab. **
- Click on the ellipsis (…) [...]

Haven’t I done this before?

As a Reporting Services Developer you may have found yourself completing the same tasks over and over for each new report that you create. To alleviate this somewhat, you may have just done a quick ‘Copy & Paste’ of an existing report, renamed it and then modified all the elements within [...]

Designing a report so that, when printed, is not spread across multiple pages is a matter of setting your page properties and laying out the report within the ‘page’ boundaries. Follow these simple steps to ensure that your runtime report is always just right for printing. Note – the examples below are settings for A4 [...]

Left a bit, right a bit
When it comes to designing one page summary dashboards for print (A4), you need to be able to ensure that the layout of your report is constant. Even with fluctuating columns & rows – care of Tables & Matrices. Initially this sounds fairly simple, add the report items, lay them [...]