Report objects shift to right on very wide report - why?

Greetings,

I have a very wide report of more than 20 inches. I've placed several parameter values in the report header section so that the user can see what filters have been applied to the data. The testboxes shift their position several inches to the right when the report is run from the Report Manager.

Is there a way to make sure that a textbox is displayed at an absolute position? I thought maybe there would be a property on the report or body object that controls this but I don't see one.

Thanks for your help,

BCB

It may be because your left margin is high. Check how much left margin you have specified in Report (menu) -> Report Properties -> Layout (tab).

Shyam

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I've found similar (non-reproducible) behaviour sometimes, I've solved it putting all the "affected" items inside a rectangle control.

HTH

Jordi Rambla|||

Oh my, having the same problem and it drives me NUTS. Keeps kicking my textboxes to the right without any logical explanation I could think of. In layout tab, everything is fine. In preview tab, some textboxes that reside in Body, are shifted chaotically to the right, sometimes beyond the right border of the first page. When report is deployed and viewed, the position of the textboxes changes but they are still far on the right side. And finally in the printout, position may change once again and still not where I meant them to be. Nice WYSIWYG I should say.

My report is very simple, it contains a table and a matrix region. The textboxes in question hold the information about parameters and about printing time. The layout of the page is A4 landscape, with 15mm left margin and 10mm other margins. Does anybody have an idea what is going on? A bug? And by the way, enclosing textboxes into rectangle object doesn't work for me.

Denis

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Try increasing the Interactive Size or Report Size (properties found on the report object). In my case the browser seemed to want to treat the location of the text boxes I had in the page header as a percentage of page width rather than an obsolute location. The actual report was much wider than the property width (I forget which of the two properties I changed). When I increased page width the text boxes stopped shifting right or at least moved a very small amount that was tolerable. This all took place within the PageHeader section.

BCB

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Thank you very much for your reply.

I tried playing with "Interactive size" properties of the Report object, but that didn't change anything. BTW in my case, the interactive size values were wrong too, compared to the actual size of the reporting sections.

But then, I moved my textboxes from Body to the Page Header section, and that solved the problem. Now textboxes stay where they are in both Design, Preview and printed report.

Upon further investigation, the awful truth finally revealed itself. My report utilizes a matrix control to display variable amount of columns. It turns out that when matrix is expanding to the right at runtime, it will "push out" everything that is located on the right side of it in the design tab. Only controls located in the same section (usually Body) will be affected. What confuses me most, the vertical position of controls doesn't matter, as soon as .Left property of a control is greater than the right border of the matrix in the design tab, the control will be shifted to the right at runtime.

Since Report Designer does not support user-defined sections to split Body into individual parts, the only solution seems to be enclosing controls into Rectangle object to keep it on the left from the evil matrix control. Just as Jordi recommended.

Denis