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sql server reporting services : multiple columns of images


rob NO[at]SPAM noemail.noemail
5/9/2006 8:34:05 AM
I need to be able to display multiple (external) images per row in one
control. The report that the control is on must have only one column, since
other controls (namely a table control) house enough columnar data to fill
an
entire page and then some.

I'm not trying to repeat the same image many times, I want to use space
efficiently by having several images per row. For example, instead of
having
30 images displayed in a single column, I would like to have either 15 rows
with two images per row; or 10 rows with 3 images per row.

I am using BI Report Builder in VS 2005.

I currently have a table control that to displays a single column of images
(via an image control).

I'm using image controls in the table to point to external images (hosted by
a web server). My database has a table with one column indicating the
external location of my images. This part works great.

I don't want to use the RepeatWith property because the
PDF renderer doesn't support it.

I have attempted to use the Matrix, and was able to create a single row that
spanned many pages. These spanned pages have grundles of blank, unformatted
space; which is simply unacceptable for my report's required
professionalism.
Perhaps there is a way to line feed or carriage return this long row?

Using a SubReport with multiple columns is unacceptable because subreports
inherit their parent column settings, which would be 1 in this case.

I would appreciate any help.
Robert

weilu NO[at]SPAM online.microsoft.com
5/10/2006 2:33:22 AM
Hi Robert,

Thank you for using MSDN Managed Newsgroup Support.

Would you please make this issue more clear? I know you want to display the
images in a row. Based on my scope, you could add multiple images in
multiple columns of the table.

Hope this will be helpful.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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