SSRS Populate Dropdown from Dataset.
My Dataset has list of customers made shopping in multiple grocery stores which are located in multiple cities for the period of last 90 days.
Requirement is, On selecting GroceryStoreA which is in the Dropdownlist box, i can see a second dropdownlist with multiple cities.
I can view the report for GroceryStoreA only for a SelectedCity. But my dataset has duplicate values of GroceryStoreA and duplicatevalues for Cities.
How should i populate the dropdownlist from Dataset with distinct values.
The query powering the dataset that's behind your parameters needs to return unique values only instead of every single row. You can use either SELECT DISTINCT or alternatively the GROUP BY clause to achieve that, depending on what else you want to use the dataset for.
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I need to develop report at SSRS include pie chart, that based on dataset (the dataset can change every day)
Can I make "dynamic pie" on report that change the number of graphs according to the dataset I define?
[A particular day can have 2 employees (2 pie graphs) and another day can have 5 or more employees (and therefore need 5 different graphs)]
For example:
This is the report that I need, based on this dataset
Requested report
My_Dataset
Thank!!
Yes, this is a brief overview of the main steps...
You will need two reports.
The first will be a subreport. So build a report that takes one or more parameters, based on your sample data the parameter would be Emp_Name. Build this report that it can handle a single employee only. The dataset might be something like SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE Emp_Name = #Emp_Name
Once that is complete, create a second report. Add a dataset that contains just a list of the employees so something like SELECT DISTINCT Emp_name FROM myTable ORDER BY Emp_Name
Add a list or table to this report and set the dataset to the dataset you just created. In the list (or table) right-click inside the cell and "insert => Subreport". Set the subreport to be the first report you created. and the parameter to be the EMp_Name field from your dataset.
When you run the seconds report it will create one row in the list for each employee in the dataset, inside each row it will run your subreport and pass the respective paramater.
That's it really.
Note that this will produce a vertical list but it should get you started. There are plenty of examples of how to arrange horizontally.
I am designing a report for SSRS. I want the user requesting the report to be able to specify, when they generate the report, from a pre-defined selection some values which should be displayed in a tablix on the report.
I have therefore created a multi-value parameter and populated the Available Values with the options I want the user to be able to select from, and, as expected, when the report is generated the user is able to select one or more of these values.
However, what I now want to do is include a tablix in the report, and display a row for every value in the multi-value parameter that the user selected, with the value displayed in the first cell of the row.
If the values were coming from a data table this would obviously be easy. I've also found answers on how to show all of the selected parameter values in a single textbox using the JOIN function, but I don't want to do that.
The only solution I can think of is to replicate the list of available values in the multi-value parameter in a tablix manually, and link the visibility of each row of the tablix to the selected state of the corresponding value in the multi-value parameter, but that's not very elegant and increases the effort involved in maintaining the report definition.
Any ideas on how to do this? I know the selected values from the parameter simply form an array, but I can't see how to bind a tablix to any data that isn't in a dataset, or how to create a dataset from the parameter values.
Considering that a tablix sources from a dataset, I did some experiments to see how to create a low maintenance solution for you.
Option 1: Create a data set with hard-coded options to match your multi-value parameter and select those options WHERE they exist in the parameter.
Example:
SELECT val
FROM (
SELECT 'opt1' as val
UNION SELECT 'opt2'
UNION SELECT 'opt3'
UNION SELECT 'opt4') a
WHERE val IN (#Param)
Thoughts: easier to maintain than visibility on a table, but still two hard-coded places within the report.
Option 2: Create a dataset that selects the multi-value parameter and splits it by each value. This was my first idea, but I ran into some issues with determining how to actually select the multi-value without a syntax error. I came up with a method that creates a deliminated string in the report and than parsed that string back into rows in the dataset:
Step 1) Within the dataset properties, on the parameter tab, join the multiple values together with a JOIN expression
Step 2) Create a simple query which uses the new SQL Server 2016 function string_split. Note that your database compatibility level MUST be 130 or higher to use this function (SQL 2016+). If this isn't your scenario, there are many string split functions that you can find on Stack Overflow to achieve the same thing.
Fun problem!
I am generating a table in SSRS based on the selection made by the user on two filters: Filter1 and Filter2 (say). The table so displayed has 10 columns and I wish to add filter option listing all available values for that column for all 10 columns.
Basically, I am trying to replicate the Excel functionality of filtering down data on each and every column.
Please note that I tried creating a new data set and a parameter taking all distinct values for a particular variable. However, I am still not able to get the desired results by filter the tablix on that parameter
Is there a way I can do that?
You'd need to make a new dataset that is a smaller version of your main dataset. It would need to return all potential values for the column(s) you want to filter in a single column to be used in a parameter.
Without seeing the design of the report or the dataset itself it's quite hard to be more specific.
I'm using Report Builder 3 which runs a stored procedure and displays a simple table. Next, we would like to filter based on the first column of data. The first column of data might have 20 rows, and 3 possible values.
How can I make Report Builder display those 3 values in the parameter dropdown, without rerunning a SP or Query from the server?
(Running the SP that obtains the data takes several seconds, and it is not reasonable to rerun another query in order to populate the parameter dropdown)
What I've tried:
1) I create a parameter dropdown and select the column name as values for the dropdown. Instead of getting 3 unique values, 20 rows appears in the parameter dropdown, with duplicates corresponding to the original dataset results. How can I make them unqique?
2) Grouping by the values in the first column. Grouping works, but we would still like to display a parameter dropdown that contains unique values from column one.
I am working on a SSRS report in which I have a parameter with a list of names, In which a multiple value can be selected by the user. I gave title of the report using an expression where it shows "Result for SELECTED NAME" and applied page break such that each value is displayed on a new page.
But when i select all the values at a time, the report is only displaying the results for the names only for whom the data is available.
I would like to display the title as "Result for SELECTED NAME"(remember this is for the values with no data along with the values with data, each on new page) and tablix structure with a NoRowmessage.
I am really struggling on this since two days!!
Can any one help me?? Thanks Guys.
I think you should look at your query. Is your query returning a row for each name, or only rows where the names exist? If you can, change the structure of your query to return the names, left joined to your actual query.
Here's some simple code that captures the idea:
SELECT names.Lastname, names,Firstname, data.*
from (select distinct name from name table) as names
left join (previous query) as data on data.nameID = names.nameID