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Any Idea's on this !!! Sunny
9/24/2004 2:11:01 PM
sql server reporting services:
Well I have to implement Mail Merge ...user defined Letters in short...
basically like this..
The user can enter any custom letter with Fields we will provide them to put
into the letter ...We will them store this in database(right now thinking on
storing in HTML format).
For eg Letter template would be like

To,
<Name>
<Address1>

Hello <Name>
Thank you

Regards,
<MyName>
<MyPhone>

When the user then selects to generate a letter selecting this Template,then
we need to subsitute appropriate fields and generate the letters for all the
selected user clients by the user.
Please how can i achieve this with RS...any suggestions welcomed...

Thank u

Re: Any Idea's on this !!! Brian Welcker [MSFT]
9/25/2004 11:50:18 AM
Unfortunately, this is not really supported in Reporting Services. We had
planned to add support for rich text (paragraphs, justification, formatting,
etc.) in SQL 2005 but ran out of time.

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Brian Welcker
Group Program Manager
SQL Server Reporting Services

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Re: Any Idea's on this !!! Sunny
9/25/2004 4:29:05 PM
Thanks for the reply !!
Well i am ready to give up on Rich text formatting here...but how can I
actually achieve the working of such templates as letters.How can i do this
with RS.
Is Inner Html supported in RS.

Thank u


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Re: Any Idea's on this !!! Brian Welcker [MSFT]
9/25/2004 8:57:39 PM
You can't - embedded HTML is part of the rich text feature that was cut. If
you think about it, since we support multiple output format, we would have
to parse the HTML and represent it in other formats (Excel, PDF, etc.)

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Brian Welcker
Group Program Manager
SQL Server Reporting Services

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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