Generating barcode for a field value in CRM 2011 reporting

Question

I want to generate a barcode based on the value of a field in a form. I have installed the free 3 of 9 code both on my sql server and my crm server. The field which I want to be converted to barcode has the font set to code 39 in BIDS and it shows correctly when I generate the report.

The issue is that when I import the report to CRM as .rdl file extension and run it, the report shows the actual field value and not the barcode.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I followed this tutorial and changed the barcode to an image using systems.drawing library. CRM now shows the image as barcode.

Just FYI I used the code 3 de 9 barcode font. Cheers!

Answer 2

Have you installed the font on the client computer? SSRS reports are initially rendered as HTML, so if you do not have the font, it may be displaying a default font.

Have you tried rendering it as PDF?