why custom field data not show in report

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i am working on custom report and i make custom field itemdescription on sales line i give this field both tables before posting and after posting sales invoice and when i enter data i see in sales invoice as well as on posted sales invoice but on report this field data not show i add clumn of this itemdesciption field and creat package and add this field in layout
and how we handle this condituon if vat is 0 then its column not show in report i make word layout

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Sohail Ahmed 11,169 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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If your custom ItemDescription field is of type BLOB (e.g. used for long or formatted text), it won’t show directly in Word layouts unless you calculate and convert it into a text variable in the AL report code.

Here’s how to handle it: (i did this for Tax Invoice adjust your code according to your requirements)

dataitem(WorkDescriptionLines; "Integer") { DataItemTableView = sorting(Number) where(Number = filter(1 .. 99999)); column(WorkDescriptionLineNumber; Number) { } column(WorkDescriptionLine; WorkDescriptionLine) { } trigger OnPreDataItem() var myInt: Integer; begin "Sales Invoice Header"."Work Description".CreateInStream(WorkDescriptionInstream, TextEncoding::UTF8); end; trigger OnAfterGetRecord() var TypeHelper: Codeunit "Type Helper"; begin if WorkDescriptionInstream.EOS then CurrReport.Break(); WorkDescriptionLine := TypeHelper.ReadAsTextWithSeparator(WorkDescriptionInstream, TypeHelper.LFSeparator()); end; trigger OnPostDataItem() var begin Clear(WorkDescriptionInstream); end; }

Assign ItemDescText to a global variable and bind that to the Word layout.

Also, for the VAT column, use a visibility condition in the layout like:

=IIF(Fields!VATAmount.Value = 0, False, True)

Lastly, check out Mr. Yun Zhu’s blog for more Word layout handling tips:

🔗 https://yzhums.com/27951/

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This is custom field itemdescription of data type text[500] which data npot populate on reports

and for vat this expresion i write in vat column
=IIF(Fields!VATAmount.Value = 0, False, True)

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vat% come like this

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YUN ZHU 99,086 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi, First check whether this value is included in the following file. If not, it is a problem with the field addition. If it is, it is a layout problem.

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Save report dataset to Excel from the request page (Report Inspector)

https://yzhums.com/14497/

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

ZHU

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Gerardo Rentería Ga... 25,555 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi

It seems to be misconfigured. Could you check if you entered the field name correctly? That value of 15000 doesn't seem right to me.

=IIF(Fields!VATPercent.Value = 0, 0, Fields!VATPercent.Value)

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GR

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