Defining report background color in StyleTemplates.xml

  • I've added my own custom style template to the StyleTemplates.xml file and so far it's working great. Much less formatting that I have to do every time I create a report. I was wondering, however, if there's a way to add a background color for the report body. Anyone know if this is possible?

    Colleen



    Colleen M. Morrow
    Cleveland DBA

  • Colleen you are defining it in the Cascading Style Sheets of the template, right?

    the tag in CSS is the background-color:

    BODY { background-color: #EFEFEF;}

    Lowell


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  • No, and you'll have to forgive me, I'm not very knowledgeable about Reporting Services. I create very basic reports, but I create a lot of them. I end up having to format each one, which is why I'm trying to do this. I found out about the StyleTemplates.xml file today, and I customized it using the "Bold" style as my basis. So I have something like this:

    <StyleTemplate Name="SS_Inventory">

    <Label>SS_Inventory</Label>

    <Styles>

    <Style Name="Title">

    <FontFamily>Verdana</FontFamily>

    <FontSize>16pt</FontSize>

    <Color>DarkRed</Color>

    </Style>

    <Style Name="Page Group Level 1">

    <FontFamily>Verdana</FontFamily>

    <FontSize>14pt</FontSize>

    </Style>

    <Style Name="Page Group Level 2">

    <FontFamily>Verdana</FontFamily>

    <FontSize>12pt</FontSize>

    </Style>

    <Style Name="Page Group Level 3+">

    <FontFamily>Verdana</FontFamily>

    <FontSize>10pt</FontSize>

    </Style>...

    and so on. This allows me to format my report elements the way I want, but the only thing missing is the background color for the report body. Not a huge deal, but I was just wondering if there was any way to set it.

    I'm not familiar with using CSS in SSRS. If that's a better way to define a default format I'm all for it! I just thought this xml hack was the best way, given that I use the Wizard to create my reports.

    Colleen



    Colleen M. Morrow
    Cleveland DBA

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