Generated RDL Causes Elements to Overlap

Howdy,
I'm generating a series of RDL reports using Python and Cheetah. It
seems to work great with one, huge problem: when I go to view the
reports in Visual Studio or when they're deployed, the report elements
overlap or are out of order.
Is there any non-absolute way to position elements using RDL? I can't
figure out how to even take just 3 textboxes and get them to flow down
a page without specifying their TOP coordinates. Sounds basic, but I'm
butting my head against the wall here. At best, they seem to flow in
reverse order.
Here's an example of some simple RDL that ends up overlapping (in
Visual Studio, which also warns me about overlapping) - any help at
all, conceptually or otherwise, would be much appreciated:
<ReportItems>
<Textbox Name="textbox1">
<rd:DefaultName>textbox1</rd:DefaultName>
<Width>1in</Width>
<Style>
<PaddingLeft>2pt</PaddingLeft>
<PaddingBottom>2pt</PaddingBottom>
<PaddingRight>2pt</PaddingRight>
<PaddingTop>2pt</PaddingTop>
</Style>
<CanGrow>true</CanGrow>
<Height>0.25in</Height>
<Value>Test box 1</Value>
</Textbox>
<Textbox Name="textbox2">
<rd:DefaultName>textbox2</rd:DefaultName>
<Width>1in</Width>
<Style>
<PaddingLeft>2pt</PaddingLeft>
<PaddingBottom>2pt</PaddingBottom>
<PaddingRight>2pt</PaddingRight>
<PaddingTop>2pt</PaddingTop>
</Style>
<CanGrow>true</CanGrow>
<Height>0.25in</Height>
<Value>Test Box 2</Value>
</Textbox>
<Textbox Name="textbox3">
<Width>1in</Width>
<Style>
<PaddingLeft>2pt</PaddingLeft>
<PaddingBottom>2pt</PaddingBottom>
<PaddingRight>2pt</PaddingRight>
<PaddingTop>2pt</PaddingTop>
</Style>
<CanGrow>true</CanGrow>
<Height>0.25in</Height>
<Value>Test Box 3</Value>
</Textbox>
</ReportItems>My suggestion is to post this in the web forum. The newsgroup is pretty much
devoid of MS people and this is a pretty specific and unusual question, very
few people have generated RDL themselves. If you go to the web forum not
only might a MS person be hanging out there and provide an answer, the other
RS MVP hangs out there and he might be able to help you.
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=82&siteid=1
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
<moviegoer22@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Howdy,
> I'm generating a series of RDL reports using Python and Cheetah. It
> seems to work great with one, huge problem: when I go to view the
> reports in Visual Studio or when they're deployed, the report elements
> overlap or are out of order.
> Is there any non-absolute way to position elements using RDL? I can't
> figure out how to even take just 3 textboxes and get them to flow down
> a page without specifying their TOP coordinates. Sounds basic, but I'm
> butting my head against the wall here. At best, they seem to flow in
> reverse order.
> Here's an example of some simple RDL that ends up overlapping (in
> Visual Studio, which also warns me about overlapping) - any help at
> all, conceptually or otherwise, would be much appreciated:
> <ReportItems>
> <Textbox Name="textbox1">
> <rd:DefaultName>textbox1</rd:DefaultName>
> <Width>1in</Width>
> <Style>
> <PaddingLeft>2pt</PaddingLeft>
> <PaddingBottom>2pt</PaddingBottom>
> <PaddingRight>2pt</PaddingRight>
> <PaddingTop>2pt</PaddingTop>
> </Style>
> <CanGrow>true</CanGrow>
> <Height>0.25in</Height>
> <Value>Test box 1</Value>
> </Textbox>
> <Textbox Name="textbox2">
> <rd:DefaultName>textbox2</rd:DefaultName>
> <Width>1in</Width>
> <Style>
> <PaddingLeft>2pt</PaddingLeft>
> <PaddingBottom>2pt</PaddingBottom>
> <PaddingRight>2pt</PaddingRight>
> <PaddingTop>2pt</PaddingTop>
> </Style>
> <CanGrow>true</CanGrow>
> <Height>0.25in</Height>
> <Value>Test Box 2</Value>
> </Textbox>
> <Textbox Name="textbox3">
> <Width>1in</Width>
> <Style>
> <PaddingLeft>2pt</PaddingLeft>
> <PaddingBottom>2pt</PaddingBottom>
> <PaddingRight>2pt</PaddingRight>
> <PaddingTop>2pt</PaddingTop>
> </Style>
> <CanGrow>true</CanGrow>
> <Height>0.25in</Height>
> <Value>Test Box 3</Value>
> </Textbox>
> </ReportItems>
>