Comment on WebI Reports

Dear Experts,
Is is possible to make comments on a Web Intelligence reports? Our end users do not like the Discussion pane in the InfoView.
Please post any creative ideas or third-party apps we can use to to achieve this!
We're using BO Enterprise 3.1.
Many thanks,
Andrew

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Adding comments in WebIntelligence Reports like in MS Excel
Regards,
Stratos

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Say for example the source is the excel and the text is coloured red or green , some part of the text is bold, all these formats should be preserved in the webi report also.
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Hi Andrey,
yes, you're right - there is a standard-functionallity.
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I am also facing the same problem.
I have an object Showing (TR/1223xxxx). I was able to remove "TR/" in bex by dragging the compunded object in Rows section and supressing it to "No Display" but in Webi I am still getting (TR/1223xxxx).
In Webi if I create a formula and trim the above value, i am getting "#UNAVAILABLE" in Key Figures, i.e. measures (smar Measures)
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Save as excel saves the document to an excel file keeping as much of the formatting as possible.
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Thanks for your reply .
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THank you for your answers. I will have a look to the extension points. I also saw in the SAP labs a solution called "Comment it", but I don't know if it applies only to Crystal Report or also to webi.
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Ok
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