How to get named excel sheets while exporting from SSRS

Question

Whenever a single page report is exported to excel, sheet in excel is named by the report name. If a report has multiple pages, the sheets are named as sheet1, sheet2,.... I

Answer 1

Necromancing, just in case all the links go dark:

1. Add a group to your report
   Also, be advised to set the sort order of the group expression here, so the tabs will be alphabetically sorted (or however you want it sorted).
   
   

   • 'Zeilengruppe' means 'Target group'
   • 'Gruppeneigenschaften' means 'Group properties'

2. Set the page break in the group properties

   • 'Seitenumbruche' means 'Page break'
   • 'Zwischen den einzelnen Instanzen einer Gruppe' means 'Between the individual instances of a group'

3. Now you need to set the PageName of the Tablix Member (group), NOT the PageName of the Tablix itselfs.
   If you got the right object, if will say "Tablix Member" (Tablix-Element in German) in the title box of the properties grid. If it's the wrong object, it will say only "table/tablix" (without member) in the property grid's title box.
   

4. Note: If you get the tablix instead of the tablix member, it will put the same tab name in every tab, followed by a (tabNum)! If that happens, you now know what the problem is.

Answer 2

To export to different sheets and use custom names, as of SQL Server 2008 R2 this can be done using a combination of grouping, page breaks and the PageName property of the group.

Alternatively, if it's just the single sheet that you'd like to give a specific name, try the InitialPageName property on the report.

For a more detailed explanation, have a look here: http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2011/03/23/where-the-sheets-have-a-name-ssrs-excel-export/

Answer 3

Put the tab name on the page header or group TableRow1 in your report so that it will appear in the "A1" position on each Excel sheet. Then run this macro in your Excel workbook.

Sub SelectSheet()
        For i = 1 To ThisWorkbook.Sheets.Count
        mysheet = "Sheet" & i
        On Error GoTo 10
        Sheets(mysheet).Select
        Set Target = Range("A1")
        If Target = "" Then Exit Sub
        On Error GoTo Badname
        ActiveSheet.Name = Left(Target, 31)
        GoTo 10
Badname:
        MsgBox "Please revise the entry in A1." & Chr(13) _
        & "It appears to contain one or more " & Chr(13) _
        & "illegal characters." & Chr(13)
        Range("A1").Activate
10
        Next i
End Sub

Answer 4

To add tab names while exporting to excel, I used the following method:

• On the report design window, select the tablix object.
• Open properties window of the tablix object.
• Add the required tab name to the PageName property.
• Run the report
• Export the report to Excel.
• Now the worksheet name is the same as the PageName property of the tablix object.

Answer 5

There is no direct way. You either export XML and then right an XSLT to format it properly (this is the hard way). An easier way is to write multiple reports with no explicit page breaks so each exports into one sheet only in excel and then write a script that would merge for you. Either way it requires a postprocessing step.

Answer 6

You could use -sed- and -grep- to replace or write to the xml header of each file specifying your desired sheet name, e.g., sheetname1, between any occurrence of the tags:

<Sheetnames>?sheetname1?</Sheetnames>