Thursday, March 22, 2012

Can I create Letter type reports within the Report Builder

Hi,

I need to create letter type reports using the report builder, is this possible?. I am trying to create a letter that embeds some variable fields, i.e,. name, address, contact number. I can't seem to find a way to create page headers, and embed report data fields within text. Is this not possible within the report builder? it seems that the only thing you can do within the report builder is add fields to their predesignated areas. I am being forced to use the report builder instead of the report designer in order to give the end user the ability to make modifications to the report/letter. This is very frustrating. not being able to allow the user to edit report designer files, and then having force them to use report builder which doesn't seem to support some simple features..

Any suggestions would be appreciated...

Sorry, the current version of Report Builder is very limited in its functionality and you can't do what you are trying to do.

There is an undocumented feature in Report Builder that may help. You can create a textbox and set its value to an RDL expression, by typing the RDL expression into the text area. This is very limited since you cannot create custom datasets to reference.

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