HTML formatted rdlc report

Question

I am trying to create a rdlc report.

 

One of the fields in the report contains HTML formatted information. e.g. (It's a text field which is populated from a Rich Text Editor similar to one we have here).

 

When I put the content of this, in a text box of RDLC file, it shows HTML instead of formatted output.

 

I have been doing this in Crystal Reports using Text Format tag in there.

 

Is there some similar option available for RDLC text box too? I could not find any.

Answer 1

I am wanting to do this as well, is there still no method of using HTML formatted text inside of a RDLC document?

Answer 2

This is not supported in the RDL 2005 schema structure that is used by the Report Viewer controls of VS 2005 and VS 2008 in local mode (RDLC). 

As you may have seen in other postings on this forum, significantly updated and improved report viewer controls are in the works for the VS 2010 release, which include the engine that runs inside SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 and provide many new features such as "RichText" formatting within textboxes, tablix data and report layout flexibility, HTML formatting automatically converting into all supported rendering formats, new Word rendering, etc.

You can also use most of these features in server mode already today, but for local mode support you will need VS 2010.

HTH,
Robert

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Answer 3

hi,

I'm using vs2010 with .rdlc report and I have to format the text html, how can I do?

thanks

Answer 4

Select the html-formatted text (not just the text box), then right-click the selection, and then select "Text Properties".

In the dialog box, select the "HTML - Interpret HTML tags as styles" option.

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Answer 5

thanks a lot

Answer 6

Unfortunately all the tags are not interpreted ...

I have to render a html text in a text in pdf

Answer 7

I use VS 2008 with report viewer vs 2010, so how can I add the html-formatted text item into toolbox and use it. I want to justify text field that wasn't supported in vs2008.

 

Thanks

Answer 8

Very very very thanks for the "(not just the text box)" clarification. Before read this I was going crazy!!

Thanks