I am trying to do a report on SSRS and the first parameter I have to enter it manually or can Copy paste it from a excel file(one by one). Sometimes there are spaces before the ID.
The other 2 parameters are dependent on the first parameter.
I am trying to figure our what can be done in order to just take the ID when entered into the parameter box. I have attached a picture for your reference.
I'm assuming that you want to use this parameter in a SQL query?
If so, in your query why not just trim the leading spaces from the value like this:
where ID = ltrim(#ID)
If I have misunderstood, please add some more information to help clarify exactly what you're trying to do.
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I am creating a report, the purpose of which is to print a letter to many different people. Obviously each person's name, email, etc. will be different. For this I am using a list, which I understand uses a tablix.
Now inside each letter I also need some global data that comes from a dataset. For example, the company email, telephone number, etc. This data will be the same for every letter. However, every time I try to use some expression to get this, I get an error such as:
The Value expression for the text box ‘Textbox11’ refers to the
field ‘URL’. Report item expressions can only refer to fields within
the current dataset scope or, if inside an aggregate, the specified
dataset scope. Letters in the names of fields must use the correct
case.
The expression I'm using to get the above error is
=LookupSet(true, true, Fields!URL, "SystemVars")
I've tried other things but I can't figure out what I need to make it word.
Is there an expression I can use to solve this problem? If not, what steps should I take to get my letters working?
You are missing the ".Value" portion in the expression. Try this:
=First(Fields!URL.Value, "SystemVars")
When a user runs the report, they can select a multi-value parameter. I know I can use Parameters!Value.Label(0), Parameters!Value.Label(1), etc to display the each of the values based on their location within the array, but the number of the values changes based on how many values the user selects.
The report separates each value onto a separate page. I'm looking to (a) have an expression that identifies which value's info is displayed on the page, and (b) an expression that labels the tab as the value when the report is exported to Excel. I expect the same expression would work for both.
I believe I should be using Array.IndexOf(Split(Parameters!Value.Label.ToString(), ","), Parameters!Client.Label), but just get #Error as the output when the report renders. I'm not sure, but it seems like the Array... expression would only identify the location within the array.
Could someone offer some insight into where the syntax is wrong? I'm not sure if the issue is syntax or it's an issue of how to specify which dataset to use in the expression.
Thanks.
This is what you should use
=Join(Parameters!CSR.Label, ", ")
I inserted three text boxes to test how this could work:
Text81: =1
Text82: =2
Text83: I want this one to be the sum of Text81 and Text82
Thanks in advance for your help on what I think is a pretty simple problem.
There are a couple options that spring to mind.
First you could always modify the data source for the report to include the calculated field.
Second, which is what your question drives at, you can do something like this:
=[Text81] + [Text82]
Should work when typed into the Control Source of a TextBox provided Text81 and Text82 are the data field names from the Data Source of the Report. If they are not you would put the corresponding data field names in the square brackets []
Hope this helps
I imagine the SQL must pass 2 values, the value shown in the table and the link to which that value navigates.
I'd appreciate a pointer to the SQL Script for achieving this. Thanks.
The format for a hyperlink column (field) is:
Description#Address#
For example:
This is StackOverflow#http://stackoverflow.com#
Mr E Xample#mailto:example#example.com#
For the most part, I prefer to avoid hyperlink fields (columns) as editing them is a real problem. A text or memo field with a little code is much simpler, though you will need a form.
If you're looking for a query to extract the Description and Address from a hyperlink field, try this:
SELECT
hlink,
Left(hlink,InStr(1,hlink,"#")-1) AS link_description,
Mid(hlink,InStr(1,hlink,"#")+1,InStr(InStr(1,hlink,"#")+1,hlink,"#")-InStr(1,hlink,"#")-1) AS link_address
FROM tblHyperlink;
It's sure not pretty. And it will return #Error for hyperlink fields which are Null or contain less than two # characters.
I need to build a report that shows data in four grouped levels. The tricky part is: the actual fields to be displayed on those four levels are to be passed into the report as parameters.
My main issue right now is this: how can I tell a textbox on the report to not display the value of the parameter #X, but the value of the field by the name which is specified in parameter #X?
So if I pass in #X = 'Agent', I don't want to show 'Agent' on the report, but really
=Fields!Agent
but how can I do that? It seems to me that those value expressions are all pretty much hardcoded - is there a way to define
=Fields!(#X)
or something like that - show the field which corresponds to the name passed to the report in parameter #X ?
This is probably absolutely silly - but I'm hitting a brickwall right now and can't seem to find a way around it....
It is
=Fields(Parameters!X.Value).Value
as specified here
Edited to be correct: I forgot once you use an = (expression) you have to address the parameter differently.
Is the source data for the report arranged in such a way that you could define a second datasource which looks up the field values for parameters 1-4 and returns them as a single row, to which you could then refer in the report using the first syntax?
=First(Fields!Param1.Value, "Param_Lookups")