Display width in SSRS report

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What is the measurement of Display width property in SSRS report ? If I want to set the Display Width of a column/field. Cannot use char ? for just specify how many character ?

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Sergei Minozhenko 23,093 on at

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Hi WWwong,

Where did you find this property for SSRS?

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Hi Sergei,

In the Report > Autodesign > Data > for each field, there is a property "Display Width" which usually is Auto.

If we put some number it will automatically give "in" for inch. Just thinking what is the options and can it be just "char" ? because "in" or "cm" is just to fix.

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Sergei Minozhenko 23,093 on at

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Hi WWwong,

I'm not sure if char is supported. If you try to put 1char, you should get some output: error with list of available units or correct result.

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Hi WWwong,

You cannot set char as the width unit, you can use in or cm and mm..

What is your real need? Wrap? can you elaborate?

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Hi,

I found this old thread, and similar to my problem.

Is there any other more "flexible" measurement instead mm, cm ? probably pixel or px ? but I tried this and result is error. I like the idea of "char" like this original thread, but I understand based on the reply that "char" also not supported

The issue is my field is too wide, because using EDT Description.

With this case, String size 60 and DisplayLength is 30, what would be the report use ? I'm using AutoDesign.

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