Rich text is showing up on report but bulleted List is not coming as expected.

Question

Hi there,
             I am using SSRS 2008, I export all of my reports to Word, I have created a report on which i am having a table. each placeholder has mark-up type as "HTML -Interpret HTML Tags as Styles".
I am fetching some rich text from DB and showing it on my page. but when rich text is having some data like below..............
Suppose this the
Rich text copied from WORD document . And there are some nested bullet lists as well here. Check how it is showing up in report.
1.   
This is FIRST item
a.   
FIRST SubItem1
i.    3^rd Level
b.   
FIRST SubItem1
i.    3^rd Level
2.   
This is SECOND Item
a.   
SECONd SubItem2
b.   
SECONd SubItem22
 the data on my report comes like below...... 
Suppose this the
Rich text copied from WORD document . And there are some nested bullet lists as well here. Check how it is showing up in report.
1.    This is FIRST item
a.    FIRST SubItem1
i.    3rd Level
b.    FIRST SubItem1
i.    3rd Level
2.    This is SECOND Item
a.    SECONd SubItem2
b.    SECONd SubItem22
 i.e spaces are not coming(DB text is having many   but report is not picking them), the List is coming one below other without any indentation.
Urgent help needed!
Thanks
Shaikh Sadaf

Answer 1

Hi Shaikh,
The issue is because the web browser's job is to compress multiple sequence space characters into one and therefore all of the leading spaces are removed.
In HTML placeholder, it should be design.
To workaround the issue, we can add one more character at the begin of the multiple sequence space. We can add one more calculated  field to do so:
    1. Double-click the dataset.
    2. Go to "Fields" page.
    3. Click "Add" >> "Calculated Field"
    4. Type a filed name, then in the "Field Source", type the following expression:
         =Replace(Fields!originalHTMlField.Value, ">&nbsp;", "><font color=""white"">.</font>")
         NOTE: This expression replaces each first space with a character ".", and set the color to be white(suppose the report's backgroup color is white too. Then, in the report, it seems there is nothing.)
    5. Now, use this new field in the report, and set its Markup type to be "HTML - Interpret HTML tags as styles".
The multiple sequence space will be displayed as expected.
Sure, this is just a workaroud. We can submit a feedback at
http://connect.microsoft.com/sql. If this service requests frequently, the prodcut team may find a way to fix this issue.
If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Jin Chen
Jin Chen - MSFT