Set parts of text to bold in Rich Text control

Nico Burgerhart

21 mai 2024 08:11

Set parts of text to bold in Rich Text control. This is not possible now. In Reporting 4, this functionality was available.

This idea is a follow-up to my request https://support.vertigis.com/hc/en-us/requests/84406 Bold text in Rich Text control in Reporting.

If you load a RTF file in the control, parts of the text in bold are kept bold.

VertiGIS: comment

It does look like the DevExpress .NET version of their demo interface supports a Rich Text Editor when you double click on the Rich Text control. So we could likely add support for this to our implementation.
https://demos.devexpress.com/ASPNetCore/Demo/Reporting/ReportDesigner/ 

 

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  Ali VanSickle

  19 février 2025 19:37

  Nico Burgerhart 
  I am also looking for the same functionality. Were you able to find a workaround?
  
  Thanks!

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  Nico Burgerhart

  19 février 2025 22:13

  Ali VanSickle A workaround is to use the option to load a RTF file, where you have applied the formatting in bold in the file.

  This works in Reporting on-premises. In SaaS Reporting I had a different issue not being able to uplad a RTF file.

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  Gareth Evans

  19 février 2025 23:22

  Hi Nico Burgerhart & Ali VanSickle 

  
  Thanks for bringing up this RTF formatting challenge. I believe you could accomplish this using configured Expressions on your rich text control. Having dug into the expressions documentation, and built a few reports in my time, let me suggest a few potential approaches we could explore:

  1. You might be able to leverage string concatenation with formatted segments:

  [FormattedSection1] + ' ' + [FormattedSection2] + ' ' + [FormattedSection3]

  2. For dynamic scenarios where certain segments need bold formatting, we could try combining Iif() with concatenation:

  'Regular text: ' + [TextField] + Iif([IsBoldField] == True, ' <EMPHASIZE>' + [BoldSection] + '</EMPHASIZE>', [BoldSection])

  3. Another angle would be splitting your RTF content into separate fields that maintain their formatting:

  Concat([RTFHeader], NewLine(), [RTFBody], NewLine(), [RTFFooter])

  I should mention that while these are approaches based on our expression syntax capabilities, I know this isn't as straightforward as it was in Reporting 4. These are somewhat experimental suggestions - I'd be really interested to hear if you've tried any particular approaches already and what results you've seen.

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  Ali VanSickle

  21 février 2025 16:22

  Thanks! 
  
  I was able to complete this by creating a calculated string string field with the following expression:
  
  '{\rtf1\ansi\deff0 {\fonttbl {\f0 Tahoma;}}\f0\fs20{\b DIVISION OWNERSHIP:} [DIVOWNER]\line{\b GL:} [GL]\line{\b CUT INTERVAL:} [CUTINTERVAL]\line{\b CUT INSTRUCTIONS:} [CUTINSTRUCTION] \line}'
  
  Then I added the RTF control and referenced the calculated field above.

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  Gareth Evans

  21 février 2025 16:49

  AHa, glad you found success and thanks for sharing your specific syntax, Ali!

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