How do I best display CheckBoxes in SQL Server Reporting Services?

Question

One of the many quirks of Reporting Services we\'ve run across is the complete and utter lack of a CheckBox control or even something remotely similar.

We have a form th

Answer 1

This is building on Dragos Durlut's answer. I don't have a high enough reputation to comment but I can answer...

I needed a checkbox as part of text that is passed as a parameter. The parameter contains HTML and is used in a placeholder set up just like Dragos suggests: HTML - Interpret HTML tags as styles.

Instead of having to switch between the HTML and the strings, you can use the HTML Escape Codes (& + # + CharCode + ; --> ¨)

="¨ Empty checkbox"

Since mine is a parameter, it just pass in the string:

¨ Empty checkbox

If you need the checkbox selected, you would pass in either ý or þ instead:

ý filled with an x
þ filled with a checkmark