Entering Notes/Comments/Remarks to Report

Hi, there,

We intended to create a report that allows users to enter remarks, comments or additional notes in supporting the report.

Can it be done in SSRS? FYI, we are using SQL Server 2005 Enterprise.

Thank you.

Regards,

Yong Hwee

You want to annotate within the report, or you want to add extended properties to the report? If it is the first, then there is no way without changing the RDL or annotating the exported format. If it is the second, then you can use SetProperties/GetProperties to write/retrieve extended properties (including your annotations) programmatically.|||

Hi, John,

Thank you for your reply. Sorry for my ignorance. In fact, we are still thinking the way to cater this requirement. Currently, the report is in Excel workbook. Annotations are entered directly to the workbook. Users are producing this report every mth. If possible, we would like users to enter the annotations to the report and saved. It seems like the second method using SetProperties/GetProperties is the better choice but what are the possible ways of implemeting it?

We are looking for a intuitive solution that allows monthly reports to be saved and retrieved later. The results in the saved reports should not change irregardless of the underlying source. I think this is just like the 'report snapshot' in SSRS.

Thank you.

Regards,

Yong Hwee

|||You can use history snapshots for archiving previously generated reports, but we don't support setting/getting properties on individual snapshots, only the report item itself.|||

Hi, John,

Thank you for the reply.

Regards,

Yong Hwee