How to get named excel sheets while exporting from SSRS

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Whenever a single page report is exported to excel  sheet in excel is named by the report name  If a report has multiple pages  the sheets are named as sheet1  sheet2      Is there any way to specify sheet names in SSRS 2005    solution   Found this after some googleing  Changing the Sheet names in SQL Server RS Excel  QnD XSLT  Will try out and post an update if it works

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There is no direct way  You either export XML and then right an XSLT to format it properly  this is the hard way   An easier way is to write multiple reports with no explicit page breaks so each exports into one sheet only in excel and then write a script that would merge for you  Either way it requires a postprocessing step

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To add tab names while exporting to excel  I used the following method    On the report design window  select the tablix object   Open properties window of the tablix object   Add the required tab name to the PageName property   Run the report  Export the report to Excel   Now the worksheet name is the same as the PageName property of the tablix object

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In SSRS 2008 R2 use PageName property of page group  http   bidn com blogs bretupdegraff bidn-blog 234 new-features-of-ssrs-2008-r2-part-1-naming-excel-sheets-when-exporting-reports

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You could use -sed- and -grep-  to replace or write to the xml header of each file specifying your desired sheet name  e g   sheetname1   between any occurrence of the tags    lt Sheetnames gt  sheetname1  lt  Sheetnames gt

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I was able to get this done following more complex instructions suggested by Valentino Vranken and rao   but here is a more simple approach   for a more simple report   This will put each table on a separate sheet and name them in Excel   It doesn t seem to have an effect on other exports like PDF and Word    First in the Tablix Properties of of your tables under General   check either Add a page break before or after   this separates the report into sheets    Then in each table   click the table   then in the Grouping view   on the Row Groups side   select the parent group or the default row group and then in the Properties view under Group - gt  PageBreak set BreakLocation to None and PageName to the sheet s name

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Put the tab name on the page header or group TableRow1 in your report so that it will appear in the  A1  position on each Excel sheet   Then run this macro in your Excel workbook   Sub SelectSheet           For i   1 To ThisWorkbook Sheets Count         mysheet    Sheet   amp  i         On Error GoTo 10         Sheets mysheet  Select         Set Target   Range  A1           If Target      Then Exit Sub         On Error GoTo Badname         ActiveSheet Name   Left Target  31          GoTo 10 Badname          MsgBox  Please revise the entry in A1    amp  Chr 13             amp   It appears to contain one or more    amp  Chr 13             amp   illegal characters    amp  Chr 13          Range  A1   Activate 10         Next i End Sub

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While this usage of the PageName property on an object does in fact allow you to customize the exported sheet names in Excel  be warned that it can also update your report s namespace definitions  which could affect the ability to redeploy the report to your server    I had a report that I applied this to within BIDS and it updated my namespace from 2008 to 2010  When I tried to publish the report to a 2008R2 report server  I got an error that the namespace was not valid and had to revert everything back  I am sure that my circumstance may be unique and perhaps this won t always happen  but I thought it worthy to post about  Once I found the problem  this page helped to revert the namespace back  There are tags that must also be removed in addition to resetting the namespace    http   beatheadagainstwall blogspot com 2011 03 invalid-target-namespace-when-deploying html showComment 1440647962263 c5741523651495876761

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To export to different sheets and use custom names  as of SQL Server 2008 R2 this can be done using a combination of grouping  page breaks and the PageName property of the group   Alternatively  if it s just the single sheet that you d like to give a specific name  try the InitialPageName property on the report   For a more detailed explanation  have a look here  http   blog hoegaerden be 2011 03 23 where-the-sheets-have-a-name-ssrs-excel-export

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Necromancing  just in case all the links go dark    Add a group to your report Also  be advised to set the sort order of the group expression here  so the tabs will be alphabetically sorted  or however you want it sorted       Zeilengruppe  means  Target group   Gruppeneigenschaften  means  Group properties   Set the page break in the group properties     Seitenumbruche  means  Page break   Zwischen den einzelnen Instanzen einer Gruppe  means  Between the individual instances of a group   Now you need to set the PageName of the Tablix Member  group   NOT the PageName of the Tablix itselfs   If you got the right object  if will say  Tablix Member   Tablix-Element in German  in the title box of the properties grid  If it s the wrong object  it will say only  table tablix   without member  in the property grid s title box  Note  If you get the tablix instead of the tablix member  it will put the same tab name in every tab  followed by a  tabNum   If that happens  you now know what the problem is

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The Rectangle method   The simplest and most reliable way I ve found of achieving worksheets page-breaks is with use of the rectangle tool   Group your page within rectangles or a single rectangle that fills the page in a sub-report  as follows    The quickest way I ve found of placing the rectangle is to draw it around the objects you wish to place in the rectangle  Right click and in the layout menu  send the rectangle to back  Select all your objects and drag them slightly  but be sure they land in the same place they were  They will all now be in the rectangle    In the rectangle properties you can set the page-break to occur at the start or end of the rectangle and name of the page can be based on an expression    The worksheets will be named the same as the name of the page    Duplicate names will have a number in brackets suffix    Note  Ensure that the names are valid worksheet names

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