Comments on: Managing Reporting Services Layouts using the Rectangle in SSRS

By: Saif

Saif — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:50:07 +0000

Great explanation!!! I’m new to SSRS and it took me more than a day worth of work to find your post!!!!
it works perfectly!!!!

By: Mick

Mick — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:56:25 +0000

This article has brought great joy into my day. Thanks Luke.

By: Luke Hayler

Luke Hayler — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:12:55 +0000

Hi Steven,

Highlight the text box and then use your left/right/up/down arrows keys to move it to the desired location.
Use Ctrl+Arrows to move the object in tiny increments.
Use Shift+Arrows to change height (up/down) or width (left/right) of the object.

By: Steven Luck

Steven Luck — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:58:05 +0000

Hi, I have something to ask. I try to move a textbox to decrease the gap between the objects in the report. It does move when I move it a bit. However, when I move it further, even till it overlaps with other objects, it will not move, the position remains the same. Hence, the gap is too big. I previously used Crystal Report; there, we can just uncheck the “Align to Grid” attribute, and arrange the objects as we want. I don’t know how to do this in Reporting Services. Do you know how to achieve this?

Thank you

By: NZ

NZ — Wed, 25 May 2011 20:24:27 +0000

Thank you so much for this article!! :)

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:39:33 +0000

Glad I found this post, alignment of multiple charts next to a tablix was driving me nuts. This solved the problem, thanks!

By: Prashant Y

Prashant Y — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:51:27 +0000

Thank you for the interesting blog here.

with you comment

“Another note. The rectangle will not stop the growth of the tables & matrices, what it does is ensure that the layout of the rest of the report items are not thrown out at run time.”

Is there any other way to achieve this, i.e. we have a table on A4 size paper report that needs to start writing at specified location and should only grow to a max limit within the page, the remaining data need to be written from the same top location on the next page and so on.

Thanks in advance,

By: Luke Hayler

Luke Hayler — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:11:09 +0000

Hi Sandy,

You can hold down Ctrl and then click on each of the rectangles. You will then be able to move them as a group.

By: Sandy Schurer

Sandy Schurer — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:08:14 +0000

I have several rectangles with text within each. If I need to move the rectangles around, is there an easy way like in Crystal Reports to select all objects and move them and still keep their placement within the rectangle from moving?

By: Luke Hayler

Luke Hayler — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:59:09 +0000

You are welcome Amy! Glad that this helped :)