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I’ve been editing a report (ReportBuilder 3.0) and was playing about with the positioning for a legend entry on one of the charts.

It let me save the report, but when I ran it in IE it displayed an error in the chart placeholder.

When I went back to ReportBuilder to undo the changes, it crashed on me, and now when I try to reopen the report I get the following error and cannot open the report:

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Can anyone advise a way to get the report to open again so that I can edit it please?

Jon295087
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    Try editing a COPY of the .rdl file using a text editor (I use Notepad++). You could then comment out / remove some of the XML lines that may be causing the error. – MiguelH Feb 28 '18 at 12:03
  • @MiguelH - many thanks, I'll give it a try and let you know – Jon295087 Feb 28 '18 at 12:47
  • @MiguelH - perfect, worked a treated. I was able to chop the offending chart out of the XML code (took a bit of finding - the script was compiled all over the place...), but it's saved me many hours of reproducing the report. Thanks for your help. – Jon295087 Feb 28 '18 at 13:48
  • No problem! Glad to see it worked! – MiguelH Feb 28 '18 at 14:20
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    @MiguelH - Please add your suggestion as an answer so we can vote it up and also it will be easier to find for the next person looking for a solution to the same issue – Jayvee Mar 01 '18 at 13:59
  • https://stackoverflow.com/users/3834961/jon295087 Could you mark the answer below as being the solution to your problem? Thanks! – MiguelH Mar 06 '18 at 14:18

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Try editing a COPY of the .rdl file using a text editor (I use Notepad++). You could then comment out / remove some of the XML lines that may be causing the error.

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