How about a Rich Text or HTML Text TextBox

Come one guys how about a rich text or HTML text box in RS2005, this is a
glaring omission. I know there are some workarounds, but for some items this
is just necessary. How hard can this be?
Lets consider an example. I have a report that I send out that is really
quite complex. To help understand the report I have a page of documentation
built right into the report. Only problem is it needs some text in bold,
some in color, other not, tables, etc. Well, lets try some workarounds.
First, I tried linking to an HTML document, but this is distributed all over
the world via e-mail and is expected to be able to be read offline. Next, I
have tried using a combination of all the toolbox items to make part of the
"report" that looks like my documentation but that didn't work out too well
as its a real pain to try to make formatted text out of many independently
formatted textboxes, tables, etc. The last thing I have been trying is to
take my HTML page and run it through a HTML to image conversion and then
insert the image into the report. This works for online browsing, etc, but
when I save the report off to excel I get hit with a max column height of
409. This I get about 3/4 of my image.
Anyway, I'm just venting but please, even given the late date, please
consider adding a rich text or html text box to RS 2005.
Thanks,Here is something I do which might solve at least some of your needs. Create
an html document somewhere (I just start it out in Word and save it as
html). Then do a right mouse click, add, add existing item. Go to the
directory that has the document and select it. It will not be part of your
project. You deploy it like normal. You can do a jump to report, etc. You
can not have it be a subreport (I just tried that).
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
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> Come one guys how about a rich text or HTML text box in RS2005, this is a
> glaring omission. I know there are some workarounds, but for some items
> this
> is just necessary. How hard can this be?
> Lets consider an example. I have a report that I send out that is really
> quite complex. To help understand the report I have a page of
> documentation
> built right into the report. Only problem is it needs some text in bold,
> some in color, other not, tables, etc. Well, lets try some workarounds.
> First, I tried linking to an HTML document, but this is distributed all
> over
> the world via e-mail and is expected to be able to be read offline.
> Next, I
> have tried using a combination of all the toolbox items to make part of
> the
> "report" that looks like my documentation but that didn't work out too
> well
> as its a real pain to try to make formatted text out of many independently
> formatted textboxes, tables, etc. The last thing I have been trying is to
> take my HTML page and run it through a HTML to image conversion and then
> insert the image into the report. This works for online browsing, etc,
> but
> when I save the report off to excel I get hit with a max column height of
> 409. This I get about 3/4 of my image.
> Anyway, I'm just venting but please, even given the late date, please
> consider adding a rich text or html text box to RS 2005.
> Thanks,