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The text shown in Figure 17-24 is placeholder text and is seen by developers. The screenshot in Figure 17-25 is
what the end user sees. The reason the current report displays “add the report name” and “add the report owner”
in Figure 17-25 is because the developers (that's us in this case) never went back and changed the report variable
values.
In this example this is intentional, because we are creating a template, not an end-user report. Each
developer who starts with our template needs to modify their report to include the report name and indicate the
owner of that particular report.
Figure 17-25. The preview view of the completed header (template version)
Configuring the Footer
Footers typically do not contain much information. The most common items shown in a report footer are page
numbers along with a line or two for decoration.
Figure 17-26 shows an example of adding a couple of lines and a textbox to the footer and then setting the
textbox expression to the current page number of the total page numbers. This is a built-in field that comes with
Reporting Server. The description on the right side of the window indicates where a particular built-in field item
can be used (Figure 17-26 ).
 
 
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