Map Report Elements

Hi,

I want to apply a common mapping rule to all the report elements in my report.
Is there a way to do it only once (like a style or something), rather than applying the same rule to all 'n' elements? As it is time-consuming and difficult to maintain.

Thanks,
Vash

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mwilliams

Hi Vash,

Unfortunately for your scenario, it has to be done for each element.

vash

That's a tedious solution.

But will have to deal with it, as there is no workaround.

Thanks,
Vash

mwilliams

Vash,<br />
<br />
You could always try and request an enhancement for something like this in later versions.<br />
<br />
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Virgil Dodson

Hi Vash,

If you are getting values from a data set that you are displaying in multiple places within the report, then you might consider using a Computed Column on the Data Set to do the mapping rather than individual mapping rules every time that same element is being used.

vash

Virgil,

I do get the values from the data-set, but I am not using the same element multiple times.
Its a large number of elements used - they are used only once, but a common mapping rule is to be applied to all these elements.

Thanks,
Vash

vash

301471 Mapping Data Elements based on a common condition

Enhancement logged in Bugzilla.

-Vash