Is it possible to dynamically create columns in a table in SSRS

Hi,

I have a sproc that returns somevalues and everything is working fine... and in my reports i am assigning the header data (in a detail column) based on the some feilds in the sproc... and there around 20 feilds that i want to show... but at a given time i am pretty sure that there wont be more than 10 fields that will have data.

So is it possible that show only the columns that have data in it and sometimes if there is less that 5 - 6 fields.. i want to realign the widths of the column in those tables without shrinking the size of the Table...

any help is appreciated..

Regards

Karen

Hi,

So is it possible that show only the columns that have data in it and sometimes if there is less that 5 - 6 fields.. i want to realign the widths of the column in those tables without shrinking the size of the Table...

If there's no record in one of your row, you can use =IsNothing(Fields!productname.Value) filter your record. But if you want to hide the column that has no data, I suggest you to handle these works in your data accessing modular. For example, if you check one of your column is empty, just remove the column in your record set, so the column would not show in the report.

Thanks.

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Jin,

Thanks for your response.. what do u mean by remove the column from the recordset... cause i am populating the Reports using a stored procedure and sometimes... there may be some data or not..

Can u pls give me code snipet or an example

Regards

Karen

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Hi,

if you check one of your column is empty, just remove the column in your record set, so the column would not show in the report.

Here's the sample code, suppose you have two fields, Sp and Hd. If there's no data in Hd field of your return set, then only Sp field would been selected.

DECLARE @.NULLCOUNTINTSELECT @.NULLCOUNT =COUNT(*)FROM MatrixCapitalWHERE MatrixCapital.Spisnot nullif @.NULLCOUNT=0BEGIN SELECT MatrixCapital.HdFROM MatrixCapitalEND ELSEBEGIN SELECT MatrixCapital.Hd,MatrixCapital.SpFROM MatrixCapitalEND

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Jin,

Thanks a lot for your answer so this mean that if i have more 5 - 6 columns NULL... i have check for each column in the NULL count and then prob union for each feild so that my end resultset will be columns that has data in them?

I have another question too.. if i have a table variable like

Declare @.tbl table

(

tblid int indentity(1,1),

Col 1,

Col 2,

..,

Col n

)

Is it possible to have a variable column size depending on the number of entries in my select column like for example.. my if i have 10 columns in my select statement and in that 5 are null... so can just insert 5 rows to the table and then remove the remaining columns out.

Regards

Karen

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Hi,

i have check for each column in the NULL count and then prob union for each feild so that my end resultset will be columns that has data in them?

Yes, that's right.

Is it possible to have a variable column size depending on the number of entries in my select column like for example..

Based on my knowledge, another way i can see is to use CASE WHEN clause in your SQL, but it still requires you to give differrent sql statments accoring to the "isNUll" result of a column.

Thanks.

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