Line break in SSRS expression

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I m having trouble adding a line break in SSRS 2008   I ve tried all of these different ways but nothing is doing it      chr 10         amp  chr 10   amp       amp  chr 13   amp  chr 10   amp       amp  vbcrlf  amp        vbcrlf       Environment NewLine   Here s my textbox expression    IIF First Fields VCHTYPE Value   Dataset1    C   This is a huge paragrpah of text     vbcrlf    separated by line feeds at each paragraph     vbcrlf   vbcrlf    I want to separate the paragraphs     vbcrlf   vbcrlf    Its not working though      This is the second huge paragraph of text     vbcrlf    separated by line feeds at each paragraph     vbcrlf   vbcrlf    I want to separate the paragraphs     vbcrlf   vbcrlf    Its not working though

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In Order to implement Line Break in SSRS, there are 2 ways

Setting HTML Markup Type
Update the Markup Type of the placeholder to HTML and then make use of <br/> tag to introduce line break within the expression

="first line of text. Param1 value: " & Parameters!Param1.Value & "<br/>" & Parameters!Param1.Value

Using Newline function
Make use of Environment.NewLine() function to add line break within the expression.

="first line of text. Param1 value: " & Parameters!Param1.Value & Environment.NewLine() & Parameters!Param1.Value

Note:- Always remember to leave a space after every "&" (ampersand) in order to evaluate the expression properly

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I ve always had luck with the Chr 10   amp  Chr 13  - I have provided a sample below   This is an expression for an address text box I have in a report    Iif Fields GUAR STREET 2 Value  lt  gt     Fields GUAR STREET Value  amp  Chr 10   amp  Chr 13   amp  LTrim Fields GUAR STREET 2 Value  Fields GUAR STREET Value    Also  if you are building a string you need to concatenate stuff together with an  amp  not a    Here is what I think your example should look like       IIF First Fields VCHTYPE Value   Dataset1    C   This is a huge paragrpah of text    amp  Chr 10   amp  Chr 13   amp   separated by line feeds at each paragraph    amp  Chr 10   amp  Chr 13   amp  Chr 10   amp  Chr 13   amp   I want to separate the paragraphs    amp  Chr 10   amp  Chr 13   amp   Chr 10   amp  Chr 13   amp   Its not working though      This is the second huge paragraph of text    amp  Chr 10   amp  Chr 13   amp   separated by line feeds at each paragraph    amp  Chr 10   amp  Chr 13   amp  Chr 10   amp  Chr 13   amp   I want to separate the paragraphs    amp  Chr 10   amp  Chr 13   amp  Chr 10   amp  Chr 13   amp   Its not working though

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In my case  Environment NewLine was working fine while previewing the report in Visual Studio   But when I tried to publish the rdl to Dynamics 365 CE  I received the error  quot The report server has RDLSandboxing enabled and the Value expression for the text box  Textbox10  contains a reference to a type  namespace  or member  Environment  that is not allowed  quot  So I had to replace Environment NewLine with vbcrlf

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It wasn t working for me either   vbcrlf and Environment Newline   both had no effect   My problem was that the Placeholder Properties had a Markup type of HTML   When I changed it to None  it worked like a champ

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You should NOT quote your Environment NewLine man  Try  Your Text   amp  Environment NewLine

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UseEnvironment NewLine instead of vbcrlf

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You Can Use This One    Line 1   amp    lt br gt    amp   Line 2

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This works for me    In Visual Studio      Open the  rdl file in Designer  right-click on file in Solution Explorer   View Designer  Right-click on the Textbox you are working with  choose Expression In the Set expression for  Value box enter your expression like     first line of text  Param1 value     amp  Parameters Param1 Value  amp  Environment NewLine     amp   second line of text  Field value     amp  Fields Field1 Value  amp  Environment NewLine     amp   third line of text

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Use the vbcrlf for new line in SSSR  e g     First Fields SAPName Value   DataSet1    amp  vbcrlf  amp  First Fields SAPStreet Value   DataSet1    amp  vbcrlf  amp  First Fields SAPCityPostal Value   DataSet1    amp  vbcrlf  amp  First Fields SAPCountry Value   DataSet1

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If your placeholder is in html enabled mode then   lt br   gt   will work as a newline

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