SSRS Reporting Services | Expressions exercise | Format Dead And Alive Actors

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Software ==> SSRS Reporting Services  (99 exercises)
Version ==> SSRS 2016 and later
Topic ==> Expressions  (8 exercises)
Level ==> Average difficulty
Courses ==> Reporting Services  /  Fast track SSRS
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Create a report called Live And Let Die, add a data source which connects to the Movies database and a dataset which includes these fields:

Dataset

Select these fields from the Actor table.

 

Assign these fields to a table and create expressions to format deceased actors as in the example below:

Formatted table

Add expressions to the Color, BackgroundColor and TextDecoration properties to achieve this result.

 

Save and close the report.

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