Keep Headers Visible While Scrolling in SSRS

In this article, we will show you how to Keep Headers Visible While Scrolling in SSRS. It is one of the standard requirements that you might face while developing the Table or Matrix reports.

We are going to use the below-shown report to explain, Keep Headers Visible While Scrolling in SSRS Reports. Please refer to Table ReportData Source, and Dataset articles to understand the creation of Data Source, Dataset, and SSRS Table report.

How to Keep Headers Visible While Scrolling in SSRS

From the below screenshot, you can see that it was a standard Table report with Product Name, Color, Sales, and Tax Amount columns.

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If we Scroll Down a bit, we are unable to see the row headers. It becomes very problematic to identify which column data belongs to Sales and Tax.

To display the row headers while scrolling on every page in SSRS, We have to select the Header from the Row Group pane. By default, only detail rows will show up in the row group pane.

To display the Header group, Click on the down arrow and select Advanced Mode from the Column Group pane, as shown in the below screenshot.

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Once you click on the Advanced Mode, it will show the static columns (Header columns) in both row and column groups. Please select the static column presented in the row group pane (Header Row Group) and go to the properties of this static column.

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Please select the FixedData option and then, Change the FixedData option from default False to TRUE. It will allow or keep the Header text to freeze and be visible when we are scrolling through the SSRS Report

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Please select the RepeatOnNewPage option and then, Change the RepeatOnNewPage option from default False to TRUE. It will allow the Header text to repeat on every single page in the SSRS Report.

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Click on the Preview button to see the SSRS Keep Headers Visible While Scrolling report preview. If you observe the above screenshot, we are showing the middle of the 7th page, and the report is displaying Header text.

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