Comments on: How to format the subtotals of a Reporting Services matrix differently, using InScope

By: Shyju Sankaran

Shyju Sankaran — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:46:21 +0000

Thank you. This solved my problem

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:54:42 +0000

Thanks very much for this post!

very helpful to the work that I’m doing at the moment.

Cheers!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:18:46 +0000

Great! Thanks. InScope was just what I needed.

By: robfarley

robfarley — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:44:25 +0000

Oh, and the green corner is useful for when you want to change properties of all the SubTotal boxes – but sometimes you want more control, and InScope can help with that.

By: robfarley

robfarley — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:42:48 +0000

Marty – To change the format to bold, look for the FontWeight property.

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:05:14 +0000

Two questions, why does the green corner right click trick work for some and not others?
Second, I was able to change the background colour, how would I change the format of the text in the subtotal to bold?

By: leonie

leonie — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:51:59 +0000

oh my god. like others i have been banging my head against my desk over this for a while… thanks for explaining it in a way that actually makes sense!

By: robfarley

robfarley — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:08:43 +0000

Ok. Try using the Scope parameter of aggregate functions Sum and Max to get the max of the Sums per thing you’re subtotalling on. You can use it in a similar way to how the OVER clause works in T-SQL.

By: ismail

ismail — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:17:22 +0000

Hi Rob,

Thank you for your answer but unfortunately it didn’t work because :

1) I got an error (the textbox must be placed into the header or the footer of the report),

2) When I placed the textbox into the footer of the report, i got no answer (textbox with empty value).

I’m able to reach the subtotal row thanks to this expression (mentionned in the body of my matrix) :

=iif(InScope(“matrix1_Year”),
“Black”,
iif(InScope(“matrix1_Campaign_Status”),
“Black”,
iif(Me.Value = Max(Fields!Number_Opportunity.Value,”DataSource1″), “Red”, “Black”)
))

But the colored cell is wrong and I don’t know why.

Any help ?

Thanks in advance

By: robfarley

robfarley — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:52:39 +0000

Try putting a textbox outside the matrix, containing Max(ReportItems!SubTotal.Value) (or something similar).

Then you should be able to test to see if the value in the matrix is the same as the value in the textbox, and color it accordingly.

Hope this helps,

Rob