FIX: When you render a report to a PDF file, the page breaks are incorrect in SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services (883647)

SYMPTOMS

When you render a report to a Portable Document Format (PDF) file in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, the page breaks are incorrect. This problem occurs when the following conditions are true:

In the report, you have a table with the Hidden property set to True. To set the Hidden property, right-click the table, and then click Table Details.
The table is configured with one group in the group list. To locate the group list, open the Table Properties dialog box, and then click the Groups tab.
On the General tab in the Grouping and Sorting Properties dialog box, the following check boxes are selected:
- Page break at start
- Include group header
- Include group footer
- Repeat group header

Note When the report is rendered to PDF format, there are no page breaks and the groups are located on the same page.

RESOLUTION

Service pack information

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services . For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

842440 How to obtain the latest service pack for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

Hotfix information

Prerequisites

SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Service Pack 1 (SP1) is required.

Restart requirement

You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix does not replace any other hotfixes.

File information

The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

   Date         Time   Version    Size       File name
   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   06-Aug-2004  23:16  8.0.896.0    823,296  Dundaswebchart.dll  
   06-Aug-2004  23:16  8.0.896.0    815,104  Dundaswinchart.dll  
   06-Aug-2004  23:16  8.0.896.0    253,952  Reportingservices.imagerendering
   06-Aug-2004  23:16  8.0.896.0  1,327,104  Reportingservices.processing.dll  
   06-Aug-2004  23:16  8.0.896.0     73,728  Reportingservicesemaildeliveryprovider.dll

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, use one of the following methods:

Set the Hidden property of the table to False. To do this, right-click the table, and then click Table Details.
In the Table Properties dialog box, click the General tab, and then click to clear the Repeat header rows on each page check box.
Follow these steps:
1. In the Grouping and Sorting Properties dialog box, click the General tab.
2. Click to clear the Page break at start check box, and then click to select the Page break at end check box.
3. On the Table Properties dialog box, click the General tab.
4. Click to select the Repeat footer rows on each page check box.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, visit the following Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Web site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/sqlwarehouse/reportingservices/default.aspx

For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates