Add Text To Shape. To discover the many shapes. Place your cursor anywhere on the report canvas and select Shapes.

Place your cursor anywhere on the report canvas and select Shapes. In creating the rectangle shape I did Format Shape--Fill--Solid and changed color to No fill. To add a text to the shape I am using the TextFrame property.
Click once again on the shape preview thumbnail in the Options Bar to open the Shape Picker then click on a different shape to select it.
I however cannot get text to show. Place your cursor anywhere on the report canvas and select Shapes. The code sample below creates and formats a shape text to look as it does on the image below. Currently Im using a dataset which I reference for the value.