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Report has black background

  • March 26, 2008 at 8:52 am

    #204815

    I have created many reports using VS 2005 Business Intelligence Projects Report Server Project. I created a control that I use to display these reports. I was using the print preview control using PrintPreviewWebPage.SERVER_NAME.ReportingService to create the report. Then one day a few months ago, all the reports for all the users (not just mine) had a black background (the report was not visible, just a black page). I have no idea what changed. I had to go and change all the reports to have a white background instead of transparent. The print preview control still had the black background. I have recently changed the control to use the Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ReportViewer. I do not have to change the background of the controls on the report to be transparent to view the report. When I checked the Print Layout and the dreaded black page came up again. It is a nuisance having to change all backgrounds to white. Does anyone know what would cause this black background and how I can set it to white again?

  • March 26, 2008 at 10:32 am

    #794199

    Look for a messed up css file.

  • March 26, 2008 at 10:43 am

    #794205

    Where would the css file be? I don't use css files for this. It has to do with the default settings because I just created a dummy report with nothing but a textbox and the same thing happens.

  • March 26, 2008 at 10:51 am

    #794206

    Your report server uses some css files during rendering. You should find them in the reporting services install folder on the report server.

  • March 26, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    #794292

    I found the following CSS files:

    MSSQL.3\ReportingServices\ReportManager\Styles\ReportingServices.css

    MSSQL.3\ReportingServices\ReportManager\Styles\RSWebParts.css

    MSSQL.3\ReportingServices\ReportServer\Styles\HtmlViewer.css

    MSSQL.3\ReportingServices\ReportServer\Styles\SP_Full.css

    MSSQL.3\ReportingServices\ReportServer\Styles\SP_Small.css

    Are any of these the files that you would think it would be in? What am I looking for in these css files?

  • March 26, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    #794298

    Start by comparing them to the ones that are installed by default.

  • March 31, 2008 at 7:34 am

    #795928

    There is a bug relating to this situation. Look for the hotfix on the MSDN website.

  • April 8, 2008 at 6:53 am

    #799692

    Thanks a bunch. The hotfix fixed it.

  • December 3, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    #1087374

    I have the same type of problem do you have the kb# that goes with the hotfix?

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