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Tormod
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Tormod asked on 04 Sep 2012, 09:52 AM
Hi.

Is it possible to investigate why a report that looks okay in the viewer has peculiar behavior when exported to the various formats? 

When exporting to pdf, it leaves a lot of blank pages.

When rendering to excel, I get this error message in the viewer:
Attempting to get range {1,64}{30,112},Merged=False,Parent=Tank3TestReport[0], that intersects with an already merged range.

When rendering to rtf, I get this error message in the viewer:
Invalid column index.

My situation is that I am creating a test report of where a surveyor is to inspect data on different tanks and to mark them checked and signed in the written report as he inspects them. 

I have an objectdatasource with a "Tanks" collection exposed as a property. I have bound against the objectmodel (not its "Tanks" property) because I need some other information from the objectmodel for the report header. The result is that the report renders the detail section only once, but this details section contains a list that has its Datasource bound to the "Tanks" property.


Other questions: Should I be considering other options for implementing the report? 
Should I use the Tanks property as the data source and then forward information to the report header through report parameters?
As the details of each tank spans about three pages, should I be using sub reports?

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Chavdar
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answered on 11 Sep 2012, 03:02 PM
Hi,

Usually these errors happen a result of incorrect report layout which might be caused by overlapping or growing items. To troubleshoot the issue you can set borders and background colors to the items and sections in order to see how they are exactly located on the pages.

Still, in order to give you a more appropriate advice we will need to take a look at the report definition. Please, open a support ticket and send us a running project with some sample data so that we can get a better picture of your scenario.

All the best,
Chavdar
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