"bclay" wrote:

> I have designed a report in visual studio that includes some rectangles that
> contain sets of fields. The report looks great and runs great in visual
> studio. My problem occurs when I upload the file to the report server and
> view the report with Report Manager (or directly via a url). Viewing the
> report in report manager one of my rectangles is smaller (less height) than
> it appears in visual studio. What's even funkier is if I print from Report
> Manager it prints to paper fine, even though the rectangle looks smaller on
> my screen.
>
> I've tried adding another rectangle inside the first one to push it out to
> max. I've turned off autoexpand for every field inside the rectangle. I've
> even increased the height of the fields inside the rectangle in an attempt to
> 'take up all the space' so it won't collapse but I can't seem to get around
> this issue.
>
> Some might say it doesn't matter but our users don't print reports anywhere
> near as much as they look at them online and this shrinking rectangle is
> messing up my visual presentation. I've included 2 screenshots for visual
> comparison:
>
> This is a shot of the report in Visual Studio. The report looks like this in
> designer, preview and printing from either Visual Studio or Report manager:
>
> http://www.lockatron.com/sample/visual%20studio.jpg
>
>
> This is a shot of the report in Report Manager. The report looks like this
> if you view it via Report Manager or the direct URL.
>
> http://www.lockatron.com/sample/report%20manager.jpg
>
> If someone knows any trick to fix this so my rectangle doesn't shrink I'd be
> most grateful. I am running SQL Reporting Services SP2 for reference.
>
> Thanks much!