SSRS 2019 - Can Grow property is not working

Falk Wegener 1 Reputation point
2021-04-20T09:05:53.837+00:00

Since the TechNet Question from over 4 years ago

ssrs-2016-can-grow-property-is-not-working

is still unresolved and CanGrow is still not working as expected for vertical Text, I would like to reissue this question, because I need this feature for all the Reports and it's working with the old SSRS.

Is there acutally a workaround (rdl-file patch) or anything I can change in order to get the CanGrow option working again (other than changing the height staticly in the reports) with the new SSRS.

Thanks,

Falk Wegener

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  1. Joyzhao-MSFT 15,566 Reputation points
    2021-04-21T02:12:13.627+00:00

    Hi anonymous userWegener-1716 ,
    I did some tests locally.
    I am using SSRS2019. I created four text boxes in the report. Text box 1 and text box 2 are horizontal text boxes, and text box 3 and text box 4 are vertical text boxes. Check the label carefully.
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    1. I set the "can grow" property of text box 1 and text box 3 to "True" and the "CanShrink" property to "True". At this point, the text box can automatically expand and contract to display all the contents of the text box.
    2. I set the "can grow" property of text box 2 and text box 4 to "False" and the "CanShrink property" to "False". At this time, neither the horizontal text box nor the vertical text box can be automatically expanded or contracted, and only part of the content of the text box is displayed.
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    3. Then, I unchecked the "Allow height increase" option in the "Tex Box Properties" of Text Box 1 and Text 3. At this time, although the "can grow" property is set to "true", it still cannot be automatically expanded and contracted.

    89725-03.jpg

    Based on the above test, I guess that when the "can grow" property is set to "true", whether you have not checked the "allow height increase" option.

    For more information,please refer to : Allow a Text Box to Grow or Shrink (Report Builder and SSRS).
    Hope this helps.
    Best Regards,
    Joy

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