Report Builder truncating data

Question

I have inherited an application that has uses Java and CFR's
(built with CF report builder 7) to create PDF files. On one of the
reports is a field that an essay goes into. This essay can be up to
10,800 characters long. That length is being controlled on the
server side before it gets saved to the database.
The problem I am trying to address is that when people write
more than 7900 or so characters, their essays are getting cut off.
In the database, the field type is text. On other CFM pages where
this essay is shown, all the text shows up without a problem. So
the data is being stored correctly.
I have little experience using report builder, so I'm flying
blind here. I have done a lot of Googling for this, and found a few
other people that had the same problems. But nobody had a solution
posted. I have tried changing the Stretch with Overflow setting (it
was fasle originally) and that did nothing. And I cannot see
anything else that could change matters.
Somebody, please help?

Answer 1

What do you mean by "conceal data features"?
You don't want to display the data? => Don't select it in your query.
Don't display it when data has some specific value? => Use a format trigger.
Replace data with stars? => Do it in the query like:
select username, '***' password from my_users