Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Company footer message on all reports

I've looked around, but can't find this anywhere. Does anyone know of a way to add a footer to all reports (including new ones being created via report builder)? So that when users create new reports, the global footer is there.

Maybe create a "Company Footer" as a subreport?

Granted you will still have to insert the subreport into each of your report footers, but any changes needing to be made to the footer will only need to be done once.

|||That is an option, but we want all users to be forced to use this.
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The best bet would be to create a report template and then have all report developers use the template.

To create a report template:

create a report with all the common elements, store the .rdl file in the Report Designer template directory (in a default installation this would be C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\ProjectItems\ReportProject|||This is an excellent suggestion, and one we will probably use for developers. However, the main area we want to catch is the Report Builder reports. Here we can't possibly train all the users to include a subreport, or something similar. What we need is a way to alter the predefined Report Builder template, to add a company footer. Any ideas?

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