Text box

A text box is used to display text in a report. You can place a text box anywhere in the report and it can contain different values. Actually, a text box will always contain an expression that will result at runtime as the value of the text box.

This expression can contain static text, for example to display labels, it can connect to a field from the dataset and it can be a calculated value.

An example of the expression could be one of the following:

• Static text:="Hello World"

• The value of the field Salesperson:=Fields!Salesperson.Value

• The value of the field Quantity multiplied by the value of the field Amount:=Fields!Quantity.Value * Fields!Amount.Value

• The calculated sum of the field Sales across all rows in the dataset or group:=Sum(Fields!Sales.Value)

Tip

Is a text box a data region?

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