This question comes up every few years in SQL Server Reporting Services. Of course, in Power BI Paginated Reports, we have the same features. A couple of days ago, Karthik posted this question as a comment to my post titled Chapter 7 – Advanced Report Design:
I am working on a SSRS report where the grouping is done to group the records in to multiple tabs/worksheets. When the report is exported to excel, the worksheets has the default name (Sheet1, Sheet2, Sheet3,…). Here I want to override the default worksheet name with (Tab1, Tab2, Tab3, …). The number of tabs/worksheets varies each time depending on the parameter selection by the user. How to address this? any suggestions please.
There are a couple of requirements to set this up. First, you must drive report pagination using a Group and then set a Page Break on the Group. This figure shows that I am grouping my table data region on the Brand field and then setting a page break on that group. You can get to the Page Break settings by using the little arrow next to the group item in the Row Groups pane or you can use the properties window like I’m doing here.
Next, you want to give the page a name under the PageBreak properties. Expand PageBreak and then use the Expression builder in the PageName property to use the grouped field name in an expression. In this case, I am referencing the Brand field.
The result is shown here when I open the file resulting from exporting this report to Excel. You can see that the worksheet tabs are titled with each Brand value and each sheet contains that product information group by the corresponding brand.
