Chapter 5. XML Editing
In this chapter, we will cover the following:
- Quickly changing drill links
- Copy-pasting drill links
- Removing references to old packages or items
- XML hidden gems—row formatting tag
Introduction
This chapter will show some advanced techniques that involve changing the XML specification of a report outside of Report Studio. This is a common practice amongst experienced report writers. It often saves a lot of time and also provides some functionality that is not available in Report Studio.
You should preferably have an XML editor application for this. I have used Visual Studio for this. The advantages of using an XML editor are visual aids to help XML editing, automatic tag completion, tree like expand-collapse functionality, and ...
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