I am receiving the following error from my child report: "The report parameter 'prmDefaultValueForSnapShots' has a value of DefaultValue or a ValidValue that depends on the report parameter 'prmStoreName'. Forward dependencies are not valid."
I have a parent report that feed values to the child report to display all sales data for the specific store. However, this report is rather large, thus I'm trying to set a snapshot for it on the Report Manager to execute in the early mornings for better user experience. For the snapshot to work, I need a default value on the parameter and I have been unable to make it work.
If anyone has any idea how to resolve this particular issue. Please, give me any suggestion as you can.
Regards,
Marcus
I have been researching this issue since Tuesday and I have not had any luck.
I'm not entirely sure I understand your goal or configuration. I'm also not sure if prmDefaultValueForSnapShots and prmStoreName are parameters of the main report or the sub-reports, and which of the two throws the error.
However, this error may occur if a parameter depends on another parameter which is not yet provided. Note that the order of the parameters is important. By "order", I mean the order in which they are defined, which is also the order in which they appear in the list (you can reorder them using the arrow buttons).
Is it possible that prmDefaultValueForSnapShots depends on prmStoreName, but is defined before it?
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First I would like to apologise for any mistake and misuse of the english language as it is not my natural language.
I built a few reports using SSRS. Each one are feeded through different stored procedures.
Each stored procedures has two parameters: id and date. When I display the report the parameter I only want to be visible the date that will be supplied by the user. The id should be hidden and with the default value of 1. So, I turned the parameter id to hidden and set up a default value with the value 1. Im setting the default value on a report's definition level instead on the datasets used to feed the reports. PLease see below the steps I have done:
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I've been through some websites(stackoverflow included) and I've seen similar issues. I followed the suggested tips but still no success.
Any help on this will be very appreciated.
Thanks
P.S. Im using VS2015 to design the reports and SQl Server 2014.
Without knowing more, my first instinct suggests that you have your parameters ordered incorrectly. If you have a parameter, P2, with a default value that is processed after a parameter without a default value, P1, and both parameters are hidden, then the report will fail citing that P1 is missing a value.
See my screenshot below as an example. You need to make sure that the parameters are loaded in the order, vertically, that they should be processed, especially if one parameter is dependent on another. Take a look at the ordering and leave a comment if you need further information.
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Try opening the report manager via the Report Server web interface (http://[serverName]/[instanceName - reports is default]/Pages/Folder.aspx?ItemPath=/[directoryOfReport]). Click on the dropdown list beside the report name and choose manage. Check out the parameters tab and make sure the default is set properly. Sometimes, if you've messed with parameter properties numerous times in BIDS or report builder, the settings won't translate onto the server itself. Let me know if that fixes it.
I'm putting together an SSRS report in BIDS 2008. I've got a parameter - we'll call it ParamA - that's set to allow multiple values, and, in Available Values, I've set it to 'Get values from a query'. When I run the report, I get the following error:
An error occurred during local report processing.
The definition of the report '/Report2' is invalid.
The report parameter 'ParamA' has a DefaultValue or a ValidValue that depends on the report parameter "ParamA". Forward dependencies are not valid.
When other people get this error, it seems to involve multiple datasets, and the forward dependencies always deal with two different parameters. I'm using only one dataset, and only one parameter is cited in the error.
Any advice would be great.
Have you checked the order of your parameters in the report designer toolbar. If they are ordered incorrectly the report will fail because of the order required to make the dependencies work. You use the little blue up and down arrows to set the order of report parameters
I think I figured out the problem. Using a multi-value parameters requires that each such parameter have its own dataset. I only had one dataset, and I was trying to point the MVP at it and run the report off of the same set. I don't know why that doesn't work, but I added a dataset for the MVP, and the error went away.
I am using SSRS 2005. I have one parameterised report. I am using 3,4 cascading parameters. my last parameter can have upto 5000 values in it. I want to know that what is the maximum limit of multi-value parameter becuase when i select deselect some parameters I got one error "Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object." I wonder if it is due to lot of values in one of the parameter.
Please guide.
Thanks
I can't find a source for a hard limit of number of parameters but to be honest if you're using 100s I think you're going to run into usability issues first.
I'd suggest grouping the options by one or two more cascading parameters that narrow down the range if that's possible for your application.
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There is a constraint (on .NET framework or Web server I think) that allows only 1,000 values to be loaded under parameter drop down boxes
I'm relatively new to SSRS 2005. I've built simple reports, and spreadsheets but I'm just beginning to delve into the world of fun that is SSRS/RDL. I'm trying to pass one (custom/non-query) parameter from one report (*.rdl) to another. While logically I would like to add a global variable, there doesn't seem to be any straightforward method/technique for doing what I want. It seems each page/report has its own parameters and reports aren't allowed to share each other's info.
I'm trying to simply hide objects/items based on an option that the user selects. Should a user select option A or B, I want to simply hide certain objects on multiple reports (within the same project) based on their selection. I simply check for the parameter value within an expression for the visibility property in any given object. Nothing complicated really. I've tested it out and on just one report by itself, it works. But try to get one report to read that value on another report, and there's no clear path in doing so.
Now as I've grown accustomed to SSRS, I believe there's the "normal" programmer's way and then there's the "SSRS" way. Both are mutually exclusive. So either I'm trying to do something that will never be allowed, it's a "built-by-design" feature and/or I'm going about it the wrong way.
Ideas? Suggestions? Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way.
Ok, so there's a only a few ways to pass parameters from one page to the next. I (eventually) discovered that I was simply trying to pass a boolean from one to the next. The data was not from the database, it was something manual ('true/false'). At first I thought I needed something akin to a global variable which there are a few built-in globals in SSRS. But as I found out, you can't add anything to that collection.
So on this one report I have an image pointing to the 'Next' page of the report. Within that object/image, you can set navigation parameters on that object/image. Makes sense so far.
On the following page, your report parameters must match the position in which the variable was listed from the following page. I guess SSRS passes a non-key based arrays from one report to the next so index/position is vital for getting the parameters right. Hence the arrows allowing you to adjust the parameter order. That was what tipped me off, but I thought it was SSRS was more adept then that in the sense that parameters being passed had to just match in name, not position.
(IMHO) as I see things, SSRS has/tries/must remain fairly static. There's no real sense of events, OO, etc. and yet SSRS seems to stitch elements from VB, VBA (expressions), SQL/T-SQL altogether and spew forth a usable product. I guess that's my newb perspective. I'm sure it will change with time.
Using subreports might allow you the functionality you need. Otherwise, the only other way I know of to "pass" parameters from one report to the next is using the query string.
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We built a data cube using SSAS and are now building SSRS reports off of that cube. Not sure if anyone has come across this, but when you build the report using the wizard and include parameters all looks fine. However if you are in the report after the wizard is compete, and you decide you want to remove one of the parameters you created it debunks the report and the only way to get it back is to re-create the whole report.
Any way you can remove or add parameters after the initial build without destroying your report?
Thanks in advance for the help! I love this forumn!
I had the same problem and this is how I solved it:
Go to the data report tab.
Expand the Parameter button, Here you get a list of parameters.
Delete the unwanted ones.
If you look at the hidden datasets created for each parameter, each one has a query which depends on some of the other parameters, in a cascading fashion. Unless you delete the very last parameter, the other parameters won't work.
You can fix this by manually editing the parameter dataset queries can updating them not to use the parameter you want to delete.
The main query also uses the parameters in a nested FROM (... (... (... fashion. You need to update that so that it doesn't constrain itself to that parameter. Then there is a parameters button on top of the query builder which allows you to remove the reference to that parameter in the query.
I think if you remove the parameters from the wizard, it should update all the other parameters and the query to work correctly. This is probably the easiest route. All of your report objects should remain functional.