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 Trying to get only the part of a memo field

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icw
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

378 Posts

Posted - 2009-05-20 : 05:53:50
My report contains a Memo field - but sometimes the memo field has the contents of lots of emails inside it.
I'd like to only display the first 100 or so characters. I need to be able to create the expression to do this
The field is called "CallDesc"

I tried
Left(Cstr(Fields!Calldesc.Value),100)
but this returns an error
"The hidden expression in textbox 'CallDesc' returned a data type that is not valid.

icw
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

378 Posts

Posted - 2009-05-20 : 06:29:03
I should have read the error more closely. There was a hidden expression in the text box properties
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