1

I'm using VS2008 and VS2013 in order to create some small client reports for our customers. However, everything I try to do to make this work is getting me nowhere, and half the tutorials I see either don't apply anymore, or apply differently to either VS2008, VS2010, or VS2013.

What I'm trying to accomplish seems easy in concept. The page is to have 3 columns, with a table repeating through the columns. The table had three columns, a customer number, a delivery amount, and then a blank column.

However, everything I try either: A) Causes repeating data. B) Creates one column that continues onto the next pages without repeating it's header. C) Simply causes a code error.

I've looked into various things, and I've seen a few get extremely close (Wrap table to multi columns in RDLC), however, I'm unable to replicate what they're doing in my versions because usually just one of the things they're doing, I don't seem to have access to. (In the link above, try as I might, I can't get the group to span two columns like his picture showed)

Is there something extra I need to download in order to get this working?

Any help would be appreciated (or a recommendation to another .net report designer).

Community
  • 1
  • 1
user3169698
  • 143
  • 5
  • 23

1 Answers1

3

You can set Columns and ColumnSpacing properties of your report:

  1. display Property window
  2. click on Report (grey area outside your page)
  3. find and set Columns properties

In VS2008 you have to click on Report Body to set the Columns properties.

Then simply put your 3-columns Tablix in the Column 1.

This method doesn't optimize report space (as the one in your link): it fills a column and then pass to the next.

Please note that to see the desired output you need to preview/print/export the report; normal view only display one column.

tezzo
  • 10,858
  • 1
  • 25
  • 48