Repeating Tablix Headers In SSRS 2008
So I've been trying to figure out haw to repeat headers in a Tablix. I don't do a lot of SSRS stuff and the report I've got is moderately complex, it does a bit of an involved grouping situation with a few sub reports for details and then a Tablix to repeat individuals under each details section.
The Tablix has Repeat Column/Row Headers properties in the property pane but they are useless. During my searches I saw something about these properties being for when the report is too wide, not too long.
Anyways, at the bottom of your report designer there should be the grouping info pane. Click on the black arrow in the upper-right corner of the pane to enable "Advance Mode" Doing this shows static group items in your grouping pane for things like header rows. Find the static item that corresponds to your header row and check the property pane. There will be a "RepeatOnNewPage" property, set it to true and headers should repeat, at least they did for me.
Hint: If you can't figure out which static grouping could be your row header, watch the report designer as you click on the different groups, it will highlight the one you just selected in the designer.
December 17th, 2009 - 01:20
At the bottom of your report designer there should be the grouping info pane. Click on the black arrow in the upper-right corner of the pane to enable “Advance Mode” Doing this shows static group items in your grouping pane for things like header rows. Find the static item that corresponds to your header row and check the property pane. There will be a “RepeatOnNewPage” property, set it to true and headers should repeat.
If the above solution doesnot work then you have to check your tablixrowhierarchy.In tablixrowhierarchy if any extra tablix member is there between one empty tablix member and group tablix member then you must have to remove that extra tablix member.
January 29th, 2010 - 12:33
This works perfectly! I’ve been trying to figure this out for months and could never understand why the repeat column/row headers failed to work.
March 4th, 2010 - 13:32
Awesome!! I’ve been searching this for a while now. Finally got it to work!
March 10th, 2010 - 18:03
This worked for me partially. I have created the most SIMPLE report and I STILL cannot get column headers to repeat while scrolling! It is a table – not a matrix mind you. I literally have a one column report. It has a column called STAFF. I click the arrow to go to Advanced Mode.
There is one row in the Column Groups pane – STATIC. There are two rows in the Row Groups pane – STATIC and DETAILS.
If I highlight the one row in the Column Groups pane and set the RepeatOnNewPage value to true, I get an error:
The tablix Tablix6 has an invalid tablixmember. All tablixmember elements in a tablixcolumnhierarchy must have the RepeatOnNewPage property set to false.
If I set the RepeatOnNewPage property of the static row in the row columns grouping pane, the header repeats on a new page, but does not stay visible when I scroll.
April 22nd, 2010 - 08:04
In the tablix properties set repaet header to False. In the grouping pane set for row groups set RepeatOnNewPage to True, KeepwithTheGroup to After, and KeepTogether to True for Static.
May 20th, 2010 - 12:44
That did it for me! Thanks!
June 22nd, 2010 - 06:55
This did work for me. thanks for clear step by step info on how to access the Grouping pane and how to turn on those properties using the property pane. Before reading this,I tried rt.clicking on the static row to access the property pane( as one would expect).It didn’t work, I was almost abt to give up on this trick. But your comments helped me
July 21st, 2010 - 20:20
Your suggested solution above did not work, as Report Builder 3.0 issued the following error message after implementing your suggestion:
“The tablix ‘Tablix1′ has an invalid TablixMember. All TablixMember elements in a TablixColumnHierarchy must have the RepeatOnNewPage property set to false.”
August 1st, 2010 - 11:46
I have followed these steps EXACTLY, and I am still unable to get column headers to repeat.
Seriously, Microsoft…I don’t know what possessed you to make this change but it completely sucks!
I have made the changes for the STATIC grouping
I have made the settings changes for the Tablix properties
Nothing is working
August 1st, 2010 - 11:59
I stand corrected…did finally get it to work…but still zero luck with keeping column headers visible while scrolling.
I still think these changes by SSRS team/Microsoft team kinda stink.
August 10th, 2010 - 14:36
On keeping the column headers visible when scrolling…
In addition to checking the boxes mentioned above for repeating the column header on multiple pages, you need to do the following:
1. Open “Tablix Properties” and UN-check any previously checked boxes under column headers, as these apply to “dynamically grouped” columns, and will possibly interfere with any “static” column headers.
2. Return to the same properties page listed previously in the article, the one where you checked the
“KeepTogether”, “KeepWithGroup” and “RepeatOnNewPage” boxes, and check one additional box: “FixedData”. That should do the trick and give you repeated column headers on each page that are also visible when scrolling.
Cheers!
August 17th, 2010 - 14:04
Thanks Anumula, that did it for me also….
August 23rd, 2010 - 08:56
The report designer folks need to go on a long holiday. Preferably a permanent one as they seem to make it harder and more overly complicated with each iteration…
September 15th, 2010 - 09:19
I’ve been looking for a solution to this issue for a while, and I was hoping that upgrading to R2 would have resolved this but this worked great for me.
September 15th, 2010 - 10:14
I have the same issue my report has groups in it and i am not able to see the column headers on all pages except the 1st one. I followed all the above mentioned solutions but fruitless. Can any one help me on this? my problem is when i clicked on the static i get the highligted in design view only on 1st two columns but i dont get for other columns . Still i tried deploying the report and checked but i didnt even get the 1st two columns. Please help..
September 22nd, 2010 - 14:26
Not certain if this will help anyone but I have a basic report with a basic table. In the table I have the fields Version, Bill Number, Title, Position as column headers. In the Advanced Groups Pane at the bottom, I tried desperately to select each STATIC column header and set the “RepeatOnNewPage” property to true, only to get the same error everyone else was getting. I then tried to set the “RepeatOnNewPage” property on the VERY FIRST column header which was Version and also of which I am grouping by. Only deal is this shows as the FIRST STATIC item in the Row Groups section of the Advanced Groups Pane. Said what the heck, set the property “RepeatOnNewPage” to true (making certain all other static items in the Column Groups section were set to false) and I’ll be damned! Worked like a charm. Seems that if you’re grouping, you should set the properties of a single instance, rather the group as a whole! Or maybe I’m just absolutely wrong but lucked up! I hope this saves the last bit of hair on some poor developers head, code on guys…..
November 10th, 2010 - 05:00
Thanks – what a bizarre way to do this! Bring back SSRS 2005 (at least for grouping in tables). Gauges, indicators, etc are all very nice, but I don’t like the new way of grouping rows and columns!
February 23rd, 2011 - 06:10
thanks.. I did it
March 8th, 2011 - 08:33
Hello, I tried this solution on a straigt forward tablix no grouping and it works! BUT in my case i have a tablix with a grouping so my tablix row groups consist of:
1) static
2) static
[ group 2
static
details 7
static
i have tried to change the attribute values for every static group without any success there is no repeating header showing up. I have installed SP2 and also the groups are not highlighted in designer mode if i want to determine which group belongs to what static field.
any help would be great,
Thx Paul.
July 19th, 2011 - 01:41
Thanks for the tip! Just what I needed!
August 26th, 2011 - 14:12
Thank you thank you thank you Anumula! And also to the original poster for helping me to “see” the column and row groups in the designer. I didn’t even know I had groups!
September 26th, 2011 - 12:37
followed the steps above (advanced mode, then on static repeat on every page) which fixed the first report. the second report i was having the problem wouldn’t work until i went into the group, and added new row outside the group, copied all the header text to it, it repeated so i then removed the original header row which only output on the first page.
September 29th, 2011 - 15:07
Very helpful. This is so convoluted in Report Builder to set this up correctly.
October 20th, 2011 - 01:47
Worked like a charm. Thank you
November 8th, 2011 - 03:05
hi all, is it possible to repeat column headers every time my group changes? I don’t require a Pagebreak as the data needs to be displayed on 1 page.
December 15th, 2011 - 13:23
Thanks. This was exactly what I needed.
January 26th, 2012 - 10:31
A very clean and simple way to repeat the column header on each page
http://www.a2zmenu.com/Blogs/BI/Tablix-headers-not-repeating-in-SSRS-2008.aspx
April 16th, 2012 - 02:38
Thanks it work for me !!
May 15th, 2012 - 10:46
it worked. !
May 16th, 2012 - 06:50
Thanks, it worked!
July 5th, 2012 - 00:04
We have to design a rdl like below. Please suggest on this. Its urgent.
Start Time End Time Appointment details
8:00AM 5:00PM ABC
Name Check In Name Check In
A1 Y A2 N
A3 Y A4 Y
A5 N
July 23rd, 2012 - 06:28
Nice work ! its working like a Rocket
August 28th, 2012 - 11:26
I get same error reported by Bruce
The tablix Tablix1′ has an invalid TablixMember. All TablixMember elements in a TablixColumnHierarchy must have the RepeatOnNewPage property set to false.
any help on this is appreciated…
November 27th, 2012 - 05:38
After clicking on Advanced Mode, you have to select Static items on the left (row groups).
Even if you see the same sort of “(Static)” things on the right (column groups) don’t change the settings there! Reporting Services will throw an error if you do.
December 20th, 2012 - 10:52
I am having difficulty with this. Column headers are not a problem with the Tablix, since they are in the Row Groups area. They seem to repeat happily on each page. I am not having any luck with Row headers, which would be in the column groups side. This specific tablix consists of N + 1 columns and 15 rows. The first column consists of static text. The N columns are the record results of the query – one column per record. When the tablix extends to the next page, I cannot make the first column display. I’ve tried setting the RepeatOnNewPage property for the Static Column Group Tablix Member, but that generates an error when the rdl is read into SSRS2008. Any help, short of transposing this thing, would be appreciated.
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