Conditional page breaks in SSRS

Hi,

I am having trouble setting conditional page breaks to my reports.

i.e... I am having a report where I need to allow user the option to set page break between a group or not.

Based upon the option selected by the user, I need to add page break to the report. I tried with all possibilities inside Sort and Group dialog box, but could not figure out how to toggle the option at runtime.

Does anyone know how to implement page breaks on runtime Help me plzzzz!! I really need this to be done¡­Thanx in advance for any help..

- Rayz

I tried it out ..but no luck for me

Wherever i apply page break..it seems it wont take the condition that i've specified..and pagebreaks appears permanently..even if i dont put pagebreak no..the page break comes..

Thanks for your suggestion

-Rayz

Well, let's see...

>>it seems it wont take the condition that i've specified..and pagebreaks appears permanently

What is the condition you've specified

Also, to make sure I can repro, is this an RDL or RDLC

>L<

Lisa, I tried your approach and found two problems that I still can't figure out.

1) I had to do the Page break before the sections rather than after section in order for it to work.

2) I need to be able to choose the group level to page break on OR choose that no page break occurs at all. In this pursuit, I can't find a solution. Even if the Parameter!PageBreak criteria is not met, the top level group always page breaks. I need the ability to eliminate the page break as one of my options.

Any ideas

I just created a stripped down sample report, and the issue with using page break after went away, but the other issue remains. I have a parameter named PageBreak with three option values: NONE, GROUP1, and GROUP2. When i choose NONE, it should always evaluate the Group1pre and Group2pre as ="" and therefore never cause a page break during the report. Unfortunately, it still causes the GROUP1 page breaks even if I choose NONE.

I created four group levels sequenced as follows (as seen in the Groups tab of Table Properties) and a detail row with the Detail values:

table1_Group1pre, page break at end checked, group expression =IIF(Parameters!PageBreak.Value="GROUP1",Fields!Group1.Value,"")

table1_Group1, no page breaks, group expression =Fields!Group1.Value

table1_Group2pre, page break at end checked, group expression =IIF(Parameters!PageBreak.Value="GROUP2",Fields!Group2.Value,"")

table1_Group2, no page breaks, group expression =Fields!Group2.Value

Here is the data set I created for testing.

select 'ABC' as Group1, '123' as Group2, 'slfje' as Data
union all
select 'ABC' as Group1, '123' as Group2, 'redfg' as Data
union all
select 'ABC' as Group1, '123' as Group2, 'wqsde' as Data
union all
select 'ABC' as Group1, '456' as Group2, 'rdrgd' as Data
union all
select 'ABC' as Group1, '456' as Group2, 'f5e4s6' as Data
union all
select 'ABC' as Group1, '789' as Group2, 'rhfth' as Data
union all
select 'ABC' as Group1, '789' as Group2, 'effgfg' as Data
union all
select 'DEF' as Group1, '987' as Group2, 'kuhjg' as Data
union all
select 'DEF' as Group1, '987' as Group2, 'efjklrg' as Data
union all
select 'DEF' as Group1, '987' as Group2, 'euurio' as Data
union all
select 'DEF' as Group1, '654' as Group2, 'wesdf' as Data
union all
select 'GHI' as Group1, '789' as Group2, 'yghfg' as Data
union all
select 'GHI' as Group1, '789' as Group2, '56215hh' as Data
union all
select 'GHI' as Group1, '456' as Group2, 'hbvfg' as Data
union all
select 'GHI' as Group1, '456' as Group2, 't456e4w' as Data
union all
select 'GHI' as Group1, '123' as Group2, 'ouuyf' as Data
union all
select 'GHI' as Group1, '123' as Group2, '5f4g8r9' as Data
union all
select 'GHI' as Group1, '123' as Group2, 'zzzzzzzz' as Data

OK -- you can do this, it will work <s>. What you're missing (I think) is that you have to put the conditionals on the outer rim of the "real" groups. IOW, your group order is this:

Group1pre

Group1

Group2pre

Group2

... and it is quite possible that it would have worked something like this:

Group1pre

Group2pre

Group1

Group2

... although I didn't try it that way.

What I did try successfully, and what appears to follow the "rules of engagement" as I understand them (my understanding being without inside knowledge, just observation, and is admittedly imperfect!), is this:

GroupsPre

Group1

Group2

... using the following expression as my conditional break on GroupsPre:

I want to say one other thing, based on your sample data -- which may be compounded in something you're doing in your "real" data set:

I am not sure what effect you are after on the inner group break, but you may have to dynamically sort your data to get the effect you are after when the break is on "GROUP2" (your inner group as expressed in the report). It is certainly possible to do this, of course, and I'm not even sure that is an issue for you.

[LSN Editing next morning: instead of dynamic orderng you can probably concatenate the value in the last part of the expression as csi_hugh shows in the next post]

Regards,

>L<