SSRS - A Subreport background image is overridden by background image of parent report

Question

Hello. I have a background image on my parent report and a different background image for my sub reports. The background image of my sub reports are instead inheriting the background image of the parent report. I've researched and found nobody talking about
this. All my images are embedded.
Is there away around this?
Thanks,
James
James

Answer 1

For both the parent report and the sub report, I right clicked the Images folder in the Report Data section and embedded the images in the rdl. The parent report has an embedded image called watermark. The child report has an embedded image called subreportwatermark.
In the parent report, I added the following to the report properties:
In the child report, I added the following to the body properties:
Yes, I use an expression to determine whether to use the watermark or nothing based on a field of a dataset as you see above in both Value properties of both the report properties of the parent report and the body properties of the child sub report.
If I run the sub report only in the BIDS solution for a child row that has Y for watermark value, the sub report's subreportwatermark does show.
If I run the sub report only in the BIDS solution for a child row that has N for watermark value, the watermark does not show.
So far so good.
If I run the parent report in the BIDS solution for a parent row that has Y for watermark value, I don't get what I
expect. Here is the scenario. Five pages are produced. One for the parent, and one each for the sub report.
Parent Row - Watermark Y
    Child Row 1 - Watermark Y
    Child Row 1 - Watermark N
    Child Row 1 - Watermark N
    Child Row 1 - Watermark Y
What I expect to see.
Page 1 - Parent Report's watermark should display.
Page 2 - Child Sub Report's subreportwatermark should display.
Page 3 - Child Sub Report's - No watermark at all.
Page 4 - Child Sub Report's subreportwatermark should display.
Page 5 - Child Sub Report's - No watermark at all.
To be clear. I should NEVER expect to see the parent report's watermark on pages 2 - 5.
What was the actual result? This is what I see in BIDS when I click the preview tab in
Print Layout.
Page 1 - Parent Report's watermark displayed.
Page 2 - Child Sub Report  - Parent Report's watermark displayed.
Page 3 - Child Sub Report  - Parent Report's watermark displayed.
Page 4 - Child Sub Report  - Parent Report's watermark displayed.
Page 5 - Child Sub Report  - Parent Report's watermark displayed.
This is what I see in BIDS when I click the preview tab in View
Layout.
Page 1 - Parent Report. No watermark displays.
Page 2 - Child Sub Report  - Child Report's subreportwatermark displayed.
Page 3 - Child Sub Report  - No watermark.
Page 4 - Child Sub Report  - Child Report's subreportwatermark displayed.
Page 5 - Child Sub Report  - No watermark.
Both the print layout and view layout is wrong. What matters is what prints or is saved to a pdf. What prints and gets saved to a PDF is the Print Layout view.
If you want, we can swap rdls. Can you send me your rdls?
You can find my rdls at:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=4292E6DE18E2BB8F!3676&authkey=!AKJwIRWxPmOPitw&ithint=folder%2crdl
Thanks,
James