KB19361: When exporting a report to PDF in MicroStrategy Developer 9.4.x-10.x that contains the Autotext "&[Page By]", a comma "," is displayed in between the Page By Attribute elements.

SYMPTOM
When exporting a report to PDF in Strategy Developer 9.4.x-10.x that contains the Autotext "&", a comma "," is displayed in between Page By elements as shown below.
 

 
STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
Using Strategy Tutorial:
 

• Create a simple report with the Attributes Call Center and Year in the Page By and the metric Revenue in the grid as shown below.
  

• Add & under Data-> Export Options -> PDF File -> Advanced options -> Header/Footers tab and click OK as shown in the image below.
  

• Run the report and export it to PDF.
• The PDF now contains the following String: Call Center: Atlanta, Year: 2005
  

CAUSE:
This is currently working as designed in Strategy Developer 9.4.x-10.x. There is no way to modify the formatting for the & Autotext.
 
WORKAROUND:
Perform the following steps to workaround this issue:
 

• Create a Report Service Document with the report denoted above as a dataset.
• Add both Attributes to the Grouping section and the grid to the detail header section as shown in the image below.
  

• Under Year-> Grouping properties, check "Page By between groups" as shown in the image below:
  

• Run the Report Service Document.
• The result should get grid off the comma "," as shown below.