SSRS report - custom page header

Question

I am creating a cover page (first page) by having a subreport on the top of the report body. The subreport has a page break after. Visibility of the subreport is set to hide when a page number is not 1. Right after the subreport I have a rectangle (for page header) which RepeatWith is set to an object below the rectangle. In RB everything works fine, but in PDF first page also works fine - no rectangle, but the second page doesn't have it either. Any idea how to solve my problem?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi @mark goldin ，
I did some tests on my local server. I set the rectangle to repeat on every page. But when I export the pdf, the rectangle only appears on the first page and seems to ignore the repeatwith setting. When I exported to word format, the same problem occurred. This is a fact that cannot be changed.

However, there is a way to add a custom header. The premise is that you have a Table or Matrix in the report.

1. At first, fix the title of the Table and repeat it on each page. Please refer to this step: Display Row and Column Headers on Multiple Pages (Report Builder and SSRS).
2. Then you add a row above the title. Combine the row with cells, and then you insert a rectangle or any content you want in the cell, and the content will be displayed together with the title on each page repeatedly.
3. Export report to Pdf format.

For a clearer display, I fill the background color with gray. I made everything works fine by using the above method.

Best Regards,
Joy

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