Incorrect output report viewer printing

Question

I have a report with a Tablix control on it. there are other fields above the tablix so it starts a 1/3 of the way down the page. When the tablix size does not reach the end of the page everything is good. But when the tablix size causes the tablix to go onto the next page i get issues. The preview of the report looks correct, and when I export to PDF or Word, it appears correct. but when I print the tablix starts on a new blank page and does not span from the first page to the second. I checked the tablix properties and the keep on one page property is set to false.

Does anyone have a fix for this?

Thanks,

Answer 1

This issue was that the rows were in a group that had the keep together property set to true. I did not realize by defaults the rows are set in a group. changing this property fixed this issue.

Answer 2

You are going to have to fix your margins and ensure that the width of the report (based on the ruler at the top of the report area) is less than the size of paper you would want to use.

In order to set the margins, right click outside the report (in the blue area) and click on Report Properties. It will be on the bottom of the Page Setup tab. You will need to make sure that the margins and the length of the report (from the ruler measurements in the report builder UI) is less than the width of the paper size. So if you are using 8.5x11 paper for the report, and 1" margins on both sides, you would need to have your report's width at most, 6.5" wide or else it will cut off and create a new line and just look awful.

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EDIT: As the information above wasn't useful, I went looking for an answer and found this:

If a physical page break occurs through report items that must be kept together, the items that must be kept together are moved to the next page.

Because of page size constraints, it may not be possible to keep all the items together or to repeat items. If that occurs, the renderer might ignore certain rules for repeating with another item in order to allow the report item to fit on the page.

Taken from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677573(v=sql.100).aspx That is a rule that is applied to the exported files that have Hard-Page Break Renderers, which include PDF and Images.