Formatting RS to look like invoice

hi!,
Can we use RS to format the report to look like an invoice?
The areas I have been having problems is defining the table with the invoice
items to always stay the same size regardless of the number of lines it
prints. I was using a table embedded in the report to print this with borders
on the table.
How do I get this to a fixed length column or let it page break with headers
and footers defining number of fixed lines for the body of the report. Are
there any samples of invoices either, Microsoft or anyone else has done?
Ranjit CharlesHi Ranjit,
You can control the number of rows in your report by:
1) add a group to table, and set grouping with
"=Ceiling(RowNumber(Nothing)/30)" try 30 or whatever number fits into
your spacing
2) turn off group header and footer
3) set PageBreakAtEnd for group
HTH
Matt A
www.reportarchitex.com

formatted invoice line item report

I am trying to make a report that show invoice line items using a table with
groups. We what the table to fill the page no matter how many line items are
on the invoice. For example the invoice my only have three items on the last
page so the group footer ends up in the middle of the page. The group footer
has the invoice total. How can we place group footer at the bottom of the
last page? Even in the case of a small invoice that only has one page ?I'm going to take a stab at this but I hope someone comes up with a better
way. I could use it myself. Anyway here goes:
Insert a row in your above your totals in the group footer.
Figure out the number of line items that fit on a page.
Make the row height of the just inserted row an expression equal to
(MaxLineItemsPerPage - (LineItemCount MOD MaxLineItemsPerPage)) *
LineItemRowHeight)
This will give you the number of "blank" lines on the last page of the
invoice and make your empty footer row that height to fill in the space. The
expression will get a little more complicated if pages 2 on have more rows
than page 1 (i.e. no invoice header) but I think the calculation can be done.
Let me know if this works...Or if someone comes up with a better way!
"DJJIII" wrote:
> I am trying to make a report that show invoice line items using a table with
> groups. We what the table to fill the page no matter how many line items are
> on the invoice. For example the invoice my only have three items on the last
> page so the group footer ends up in the middle of the page. The group footer
> has the invoice total. How can we place group footer at the bottom of the
> last page? Even in the case of a small invoice that only has one page ?

format parameter date

Hi,

I know how to format report items (dd/MM/yyyy) but how can i format a parameter in the format dd/MM/yyyy?

The current format is MM/dd/yyyy.

Thanks

Dim dt as String= "21/11/2007"

dim dtdate asa date

dim s() as string=dt.Split("/")

dtdate = s(1) & "/" & s(0) & "/" & s(2)

msgbox(dtdate)

Urs,

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Thanks for the response. I am not sure where to put the code in the reporting services. I have parameters in the report but i am not sending any parameters to the report from aspx.

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Scroll down to Figure 17 on this pagehttp://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20040823.asp

Orhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157328.aspx

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Hi,

What I need to format is the report parameter date (the value of the prompt) and not an actual textbox. In the prompt value the default dates appear in the format MM/dd/yyyy and i need the dates to appear as dd/MM/yyyy.

from_date to_date

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from_date 10/30/2007 to_date 12/30/2007 view report

Format of tables

Hello,

I have the following problem; In my application I have certain items that
have properties.

Item Property
--- --------
ToyBear Hairy, Soft, Brown
ToyCar Brown, Plastic, Wheels
ToyBall Round, Soft, Brown, Plastic

As you might expect I want to do queries on the properties; so property
Brown should yield all items listed above and Plastic should yield only
ToyCar and ToyBall.
The amount of properties is limitless, so making a separate field per
property seems to be madness. My question is how can I make a (or more)
tables that will enable me to search for items by applying one or more
properties?? What structure do I need to accomplish this?

Kind regards, Darius Blaszijk"Darius Blaszijk" <dhkblaszyjk@.zeelandnet.nl> wrote in message
news:41060ef3$0$13577$fb624cd1@.morenews.zeelandnet .nl...
> Hello,
> I have the following problem; In my application I have certain items that
> have properties.
> Item Property
> --- --------
> ToyBear Hairy, Soft, Brown
> ToyCar Brown, Plastic, Wheels
> ToyBall Round, Soft, Brown, Plastic
> As you might expect I want to do queries on the properties; so property
> Brown should yield all items listed above and Plastic should yield only
> ToyCar and ToyBall.
> The amount of properties is limitless, so making a separate field per
> property seems to be madness. My question is how can I make a (or more)
> tables that will enable me to search for items by applying one or more
> properties?? What structure do I need to accomplish this?
> Kind regards, Darius Blaszijk

The obvious thing would be to have two tables - TB_Item and TB_Property.
TB_Property has a foriegn key referencing into TB_Item.

Therefore, you're definition would look something like this:

CREATE DATABASE TB_Item (
name VARCHAR (30),

CONSTRAINT PK_TB_Item
PRIMARY KEY (name)
)

CREATE DATABASE TB_Property (
itemName VARCHAR (30)
propName VARCHAR (30)

CONSTRAINT FK_TB_Item_name
FOREIGN KEY (itemName)
REFERENCES TB_Approver_Type (name)
)

Then, to populate the database for the example of ToyBear given above, do:
INSERT INTO TB_Item (name) VALUES ('ToyBear')
GO
INSERT INTO TB_Property (itemName, propName) VALUES ('ToyBear', 'Hairy')
INSERT INTO TB_Property (itemName, propName) VALUES ('ToyBear', 'Soft')
INSERT INTO TB_Property (itemName, propName) VALUES ('ToyBear', 'Brown')

Hope that is clear, and answers your question,

Rowland.|||"Rowland Banks" <banksr0@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ce544k$6mp$1@.sparta.btinternet.com...
> "Darius Blaszijk" <dhkblaszyjk@.zeelandnet.nl> wrote in message
> news:41060ef3$0$13577$fb624cd1@.morenews.zeelandnet .nl...
> > Hello,
> > I have the following problem; In my application I have certain items
that
> > have properties.
> > Item Property
> > --- --------
> > ToyBear Hairy, Soft, Brown
> > ToyCar Brown, Plastic, Wheels
> > ToyBall Round, Soft, Brown, Plastic
> > As you might expect I want to do queries on the properties; so property
> > Brown should yield all items listed above and Plastic should yield only
> > ToyCar and ToyBall.
> > The amount of properties is limitless, so making a separate field per
> > property seems to be madness. My question is how can I make a (or more)
> > tables that will enable me to search for items by applying one or more
> > properties?? What structure do I need to accomplish this?
> > Kind regards, Darius Blaszijk
> The obvious thing would be to have two tables - TB_Item and TB_Property.
> TB_Property has a foriegn key referencing into TB_Item.
> Therefore, you're definition would look something like this:
> CREATE DATABASE TB_Item (
> name VARCHAR (30),
> CONSTRAINT PK_TB_Item
> PRIMARY KEY (name)
> )
> CREATE DATABASE TB_Property (
> itemName VARCHAR (30)
> propName VARCHAR (30)
> CONSTRAINT FK_TB_Item_name
> FOREIGN KEY (itemName)
> REFERENCES TB_Approver_Type (name)
> )
> Then, to populate the database for the example of ToyBear given above, do:
> INSERT INTO TB_Item (name) VALUES ('ToyBear')
> GO
> INSERT INTO TB_Property (itemName, propName) VALUES ('ToyBear', 'Hairy')
> INSERT INTO TB_Property (itemName, propName) VALUES ('ToyBear', 'Soft')
> INSERT INTO TB_Property (itemName, propName) VALUES ('ToyBear', 'Brown')
> Hope that is clear, and answers your question,
> Rowland.
ADDENDUM:
I just read through your post again and I missed a bit. To extract the
information, use somethign similar to:

SELECT i.name
FROM TB_Item AS i, TB_Property AS p
WHERE i.name = p.itemName
AND p.itemName = 'Hairy'

hope that helps,

Rowland