Add ssrs report description

Question

Anyway I can add a ssrs report description that displays in the report before execution? I Googled and most people said its not possible but there has to be a way to tweak it ri

Answer 1

There are two things you can do to show the report description.

1. Add a textbox to your Report header and use expression to show text in that text box which gives some sort of description.

2. Right Click your data region go to tablix properties and there use Expression in ToolTip section to show report description. This will be shown when user hover mouse over report.

The reason I have advised to use expressions in your textbox or tooltip is because if report has multiple parameters and you want the report description to be dynamic then you can use expressions to make it dynamic and it will change depending on the values of the parameters.

But if it is a static report which always show same type of data then you can simply use hard coded text in these two places to show the report description.