Design ssrs rdl report using table

The following steps guides you to design ssrs rdl report using table.

Add a table to the report

1. The table report item is listed in the item panel under the Data Regions category.
2. Drag and drop the table report item into the design area from the item panel.
3. Respective table properties will be listed in the properties panel.

Initial design

Once you drop the table item, the Table renders with two rows and three columns in the design area.

Each cell in the table is nothing but a simple textbox. The cell in a list contains a rectangle. You can replace a default report item with a different report item.

Assign data fields

There are a few different ways to assign the fields into a table:

• Drag and drop data fields from the DATA panel.
• Select the field from the data assign menu provided in each cell.
• Set expression using Text Editor Dialog.

Drag and drop data fields

1. Open the DATA panel and expand the required dataset.
2. Drag a field from the list and drop into a required cell.

Assign fields using data assign menu

1. Select the table cell and click on the Data assign menu icon to open data assign menu.

2. Click on the required data field name in the menu.

   The fields of the dataset which is assigned to Dataset property of table will be listed in the menu.

3. Now, the respective field will be assigned to the respective cell like below.

Set expression using Text Editor Dialog

1. Select the tablix cell and click the Text Editor icon to open the Text Editor Dialog.
2. In the Text Editor Dialog, enter the desired content or expression directly.
3. Right-click within the editor area to open the context menu.
4. From the context menu, click the Expression option to open the Expression Editor.
5. Set the Expression in the Expression editor and click OK.
6. The [Sales] expression will now appear in the Text Editor Dialog.
7. Click Save to assign [Sales] data field into the respective tablix cell.

Set header text

You can set the header text for each column of the table using Text Editor dialog

1. Select the table cell and click the Text Editor icon to open the Text Editor dialog.
2. The Text Editor dialog will open as shown below.
3. Enter the desired header text in the text editor area and click the Save button.
4. Now, the text will be displayed in the respective cell like below.

Resize the column

To improve the report readability, we can resize the table row height and column width.

1. Place the mouse pointer in the respective column border.
2. Drag the column gripper horizontally, to adjust the column width.

Resize the row

1. Place the mouse pointer in the respective row border.
2. Drag the row gripper vertically, to adjust the row height.

Final design

A simple table design will look like below.

Download the above report design from link.