using an existing project...

however, it had to have worked before because its still working now...

It seems to me, then, that I have not located the correct invoice report. Although...

So i right clicked >> deploy on the report name in VS and got the following error:

TITLE: Microsoft Report Designer

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A connection could not be made to the report server http://jt54321/ReportServer$JTHOMAS_SQL2005.

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ADDITIONAL...

I am a little afraid since I don't want to mess up any of the other reports or this one in particular since its used so often...I was going to...

I imagine just text. I didn't create this report, just trying to modify that one value on our invoice.

I clicked the FX thing and edited the value to ="Advertisement"...

it does show properly in VS

I changed product order from "Local Advertisement" to just "Advertisement" but when i run the report it still says Local Advertisemtnt

actually i guess i just need to look at some sort of SSRS tutorial that involves deployment....

thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

under the Build menu i see "Build company Reports" and "Deploy company Reports"....

again, since i am a noob here, will it hurt anything if I deploy them? I dont...

so where and how would I change that value??

its changed when i open the report back up in designer (in VS), but when i run the report, it still says Great Product instead of Product.

here is a quote...

I tried both.

I tried changing it in the xml file (first), saved, no change

Then I opened up the .rds in Visual Studio. tried changing it in the cell itself...