Problem with report manager find command

I am using sql server reporting services with service pack 2 applied. One of
my users has encountered a strange problem using the find command after a
report has been run.
If you try to use the find command in the report manager to locate a string
that is in the last group on a page, it will report "The search text was not
found". The find command works fine for test in all other groups on the
report. If you export the report to pdf, the acrobat search function will
find the text. I have tested several of my reports they all seem to have the
same problem.
Has anyone else had this problem with the find command in the report
manager? Any idea how to fix it?Hi,
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To state the problem clearly, would you tell me how you are searching the
string in report manager?
Do you use the Ctrl-F to find a string in a report via browser? If so,
which browser and what version do you use?
The Search for Feature in the Report Manager Page can only search published
reports, folders, shared data sources, and resources.
Thank you for your patience and cooperations. Please let me know your
results with this so that I can provide further association. I look forward
your reply.
Sincerely yours,
Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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=====================================================This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.|||Thanks for the input. I will try to be more clear.
Here is the procedure I am using. First I am run the report in Internet
Explorer 6. I type the search string into the text box which appears between
the zoom factor (100%) and the word find. When I hover my mouse over the
text box a tool tip pops up and displays "find text". Finally, I click on
the word "Find".
Normally the report will jump to wherever the search string is first found
in the report, regardless of which page it appears on. As I stated earlier
if the search string appears in the last group on a page, for some reason it
will not be found.
I noticed today that the problem only seems to occur if the last group on
the page spans onto the next page. If the last group on the page finishes on
the page you can successfully find items in that group.
"Wei Lu" wrote:
"Wei Lu" wrote:
> Hi,
> Welcome to use MSDN Managed Newsgroup Support.
> To state the problem clearly, would you tell me how you are searching the
> string in report manager?
> Do you use the Ctrl-F to find a string in a report via browser? If so,
> which browser and what version do you use?
> The Search for Feature in the Report Manager Page can only search published
> reports, folders, shared data sources, and resources.
> Thank you for your patience and cooperations. Please let me know your
> results with this so that I can provide further association. I look forward
> your reply.
> Sincerely yours,
> Wei Lu
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
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> that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
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>
>|||Hi Guess,
Thank you for update. I understood your concern is that you are trying to
search the string in a report with a html viewer and you can not find it if
the string in the last group. If I misunderstood your concern, please feel
free to point it out.
In the reporting service, this Search feature searches for content in the
report by typing a word or phrase that you want to find (the maximum value
length is 256 characters). The search is case-insensitive and begins at the
page or section that is currently selected. Only visible content is
included in a search operation. This search feature is based on javascript.
So I'd like to know if you use the Ctrl-F to search the string, will you
find it properly? Is this string visible or not?
Also you may want to insert a page break after the table to test.
Further, if you installed the Sample, you may check if the issue occurs on
¡"product catalog" sample report.
Thank you for your patience and cooperations. Please let me know your
results with this so that I can provide further association. I look forward
your reply.
Sincerely yours,
Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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Thanks for you efforts.
To answer your question, the text is visible. If I use Ctrl-F, it does find
the text as long as I am currently on the page where the text appears. In my
experience, the find/next commands in the report manager will find a string
on the current page as well as all other pages (both before and after the
current page) except in the circumstances described in my earlier posts.
The problem I am having does occur in the Product Catalog sample report.
For example on page five, the last line of the report has product no. of
"BK-M38S-56". The find command will not find this product no.. If I use
Ctrl-F it will find the product no., as long as I am on page 5. In fact I
can not use the find/next commands to locate any product no. in the
"Mountain-400" section on page 5.
The sample reports are on my local machine. The earlier reports I tested
were on our application server. I am curious to know if you experience the
same problem on page 5 of the product catalog.
I tried adding a page break after the table in the Product Catalog sample
report. It did not make any difference.
"Wei Lu" wrote:
> Hi Guess,
> Thank you for update. I understood your concern is that you are trying to
> search the string in a report with a html viewer and you can not find it if
> the string in the last group. If I misunderstood your concern, please feel
> free to point it out.
> In the reporting service, this Search feature searches for content in the
> report by typing a word or phrase that you want to find (the maximum value
> length is 256 characters). The search is case-insensitive and begins at the
> page or section that is currently selected. Only visible content is
> included in a search operation. This search feature is based on javascript.
> So I'd like to know if you use the Ctrl-F to search the string, will you
> find it properly? Is this string visible or not?
> Also you may want to insert a page break after the table to test.
> Further, if you installed the Sample, you may check if the issue occurs on
> ¡"product catalog" sample report.
> Thank you for your patience and cooperations. Please let me know your
> results with this so that I can provide further association. I look forward
> your reply.
> Sincerely yours,
> Wei Lu
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
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> that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
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>|||Hi Guess,
I have searched in our internal knowledge base, it is a known issue in
Reporting Service and is fixed in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
For now, if it has much business impact on you, I recommend that you open a
Support incident
with Microsoft Customer Service and Support (CSS) so that a dedicated
Support Professional can work with you in a more timely and efficient
manner. If you need any help in this regard, please let me know.
For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support phone
numbers, please go to the following address on the World Wide Web:
<http://support.microsoft.com/directory/overview.asp>
If you are outside the US please see http://support.microsoft.com for
regional support phone numbers.
If there are further questions on the issue, please feel free to let us
know. Have a great day!
Sincerely yours,
Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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