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BC365 Roadmap and RDLC Layouts

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Posted on by Greg Kujawa 521
I was watching the series of very informative YouTube videos that Microsoft posted, which go over what's new in BC 27. Really exciting stuff, with a lot of advancements. My question is related to one of the videos, where the BC leader was mentioning the currently top secret Project Sequoia. While he was going through the Word report template enhancements, showing how the Word add-in will now allow adding elements from other data tables. The speaker hinted at how that RDLC layouts using Microsoft Report Builder is eventually going to be obsolete for BC.
 
Does anyone know timing-wise where this is on the BC roadmap? We definitely have our fair share of custom report layouts using RDLC. One of them a tediously small product price tag. Lots of fields squeezed into a 2x1 inch form. Not really relishing recreating all of these layouts in Word anytime soon!
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    Aman Kakkar Profile Picture
    Aman Kakkar 1,022 on at
    BC365 Roadmap and RDLC Layouts
    Hi,
     
    My recommendation is - Don’t panic and don’t immediately rewrite everything. There's no official date mentioned by Microsoft that it will remove RDLC completely.
     
    RDLC is still usable today.
     
    Microsoft docs warn that some old report layout properties (DefaultLayout / RDLCLayout / WordLayout, etc.) should be avoided and that new rendering/layout approaches are the recommended path forward — i.e., Microsoft is steering customers toward newer layout/rendering models, but that is not the same as an immediate kill switch for RDLC.
     
    You can already create Word layouts from an RDLC schema - https://svirlan.com/create-word-layouts-based-on-schema-from-rdlc-layout
     
    Microsoft has steadily improved Word report layouts and the Word add-in so Word can use report metadata and data from other data items — this makes Word much more capable than it used to be. 
     
    Again, it doesn't mean RDLC is going anywhere soon. If you feel I am missing out on anything you can share the video that you watched, and timeline if possible.
     
     
    Hope this helps.
    Aman K
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    Valentin Castravet Profile Picture
    Valentin Castravet 30,058 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    BC365 Roadmap and RDLC Layouts
    There's no specific timeline, RLDC is going to be supported well into the future, especially for existing reports.
     

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