Hidden Values are not calculated in SSRS 2005?!

Hi,
I just created a Report in SSRS 2005 and wanted to use the "old" trick to
display data values in the header (reference body-elements from the header).
I know this worked fine in SSRS 2000, but in SSRS 2005 it seems, that they
have build in some "optimization" which doesn't render/calculate hidden
Fields anymore.
So, when I reference a Field that isn't hidden it works just fine - but as
soon as I hide the referenced field in the body it never gets a value, thus
the textbox in the header stays empty as well.
Initially I referenced Textboxes embedded in a table, but it neither works
for texboxes which are directly contained in the body-region. As soon as an
element is hidden it seems to be ignored by the rendering engine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
FlorianA suitable workaround would be to set the font color to the same color as
the background color.
-Tim
"Florian" <Florian@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I just created a Report in SSRS 2005 and wanted to use the "old" trick to
> display data values in the header (reference body-elements from the
> header).
> I know this worked fine in SSRS 2000, but in SSRS 2005 it seems, that they
> have build in some "optimization" which doesn't render/calculate hidden
> Fields anymore.
> So, when I reference a Field that isn't hidden it works just fine - but as
> soon as I hide the referenced field in the body it never gets a value,
> thus
> the textbox in the header stays empty as well.
> Initially I referenced Textboxes embedded in a table, but it neither works
> for texboxes which are directly contained in the body-region. As soon as
> an
> element is hidden it seems to be ignored by the rendering engine.
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Florian