Expression Placeholder Text (Reporting Services)

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When you drag items from the Data pane to the report design surface, you see placeholder text for the underlying expression values for a text box.

The following table shows the display text and the underlying expression text.

Built-in Collection	Display text	Expression text
Dataset Fields	`[Sales]` `[SUM(Sales)]` `[FIRST(Store)]`	`=Fields!Sales.Value` `=Sum(Fields!Sales.Value)` `=First(Fields!Store.Value)`
Report parameters	`[@Param]` `[SUM(@Param)]`	`=Parameters!Param.Value` `=Sum(Parameters!Param.Value)`
Built-in Fields	`[&ReportName]`	`=Globals!ReportName.Value`
ReportItems text box collection	`[$Textbox1]`	`=ReportItems("Textbox1").Value` `=ReportItems.Textbox1.Value`
Static value	`\[Sales\]`	`[Sales]`

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