Hi all
I'm not a particularly experienced SSRS report creator - I've done a few very basic things before. Now I'm trying to create a slightly more sophisticated report and coming up against some layout issues. I've trawled various articles across the internet but can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for. I'm using Visual Studio 2017 (15.5.5) with SSRS plug-in 15.0.900.163.
Scenario: I want to create a report with three "pages", each one displaying the results from one of three datasets. Each of the three pages will have the same format, a table to the right-hand side of the page, and three separate charts (so three tables and nine charts in total for the entire report). I think this is known as "soft" page breaks, is that the correct terminology?
Where the problem is occurring is trying to group together all the objects for one "page". I have created a rectangle object, and set the page break properties so that BreakLocation = End. I've then created the table and chart objects inside the rectangle. When I review the properties of each of the table / chart objects the Parent property is set to "Rectangle4", which is the correct name for the rectangle object (I've tried this a couple of times already).
However, when I preview the report, only the first chart object and the table display on the "page", and the second (and also subsequent) charts appear on the next page. I don't understand why I cannot get those additional charts to display in the same space as the first, even though they are apparently all in the same container. Am I missing a property or properties that should be set to force this behaviour? If it helps, the size of the table when previewed is longer than the vertical height of all the chart objects combined, but I have also tried moving the charts around within the rectangle to see if placement made a difference - I couldn't change the behaviour.
Any suggestions or advice would be gratefully received!