Hi. In short I would like to refer to other Report properties in a Report. The Report properties such as Author and Description. Is it possible to use a format like Report!Item.Value I've tried variations on this idea but nothing seems to work. Any help would be appreciated. thanks Mark

Hi Equiton, As far as I know, we cannot refer to other Report properties in a Report through a format like Report!Item.Value. In Reporting Services we use Reportitems!textbox.value to refer to other report items value. As the report is processed, each text box in the report body or in a data region is evaluated in the context of its dataset, data region, and group associations. The scope for a reference to the ReportItems collection is the current scope or any point higher than the current scope. However we cannot refer to another report. For more information about ReportItems Collection References (Report Builder and SSRS), please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255285.aspx If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Regards, Charlie LiaoCharlie Liao TechNet Community Support

Hi Equiton, As far as I know, we cannot refer to other Report properties in a Report through a format like Report!Item.Value. In Reporting Services we use Reportitems!textbox.value to refer to other report items value. As the report is processed, each text box in the report body or in a data region is evaluated in the context of its dataset, data region, and group associations. The scope for a reference to the ReportItems collection is the current scope or any point higher than the current scope. However we cannot refer to another report. For more information about ReportItems Collection References (Report Builder and SSRS), please see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255285.aspx If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Regards, Charlie LiaoCharlie Liao TechNet Community Support

I was looking to use report properties within a report. I see that report description and author are report properties, but there seems to be no way to use them in the report. I do not mean to reference properties from one report in another report.Mark