SSRS Set Report description from expression - reporting-services

Is there a way to set the report description property from either an expression or from the code? I need it to contain some reference numbers that change depending on the parameters entered. I'm going around in circles trying to find out how to do this.

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Display Parameter in SSRS Report

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, ", ")

How to force an SSRS parameter to be grayed out using an expression?

Looking everywhere on Google and cannot find the answer.
Is there an SSRS expression to grey out a parameter. So by default it is visible and can be selected. I want to to be grayed out and not selectable until a prior parameter is selected. I'd like to do this with an expression instead of cascading parameters. This is a special case. There must be something I can do in an if statement to make the parameter grayed out if the other parameter does not have a value selected. Please help.
You dont have to give always a value to the parameters from the form in the preview or by using parameters in cascading but maybe a default value from behind. It would depends on your code and what do you need to return for the dataset. I suppose that the dataset has fixed columns. Do you use sql inline or a store procedure? can you give an example of your code?

Show a Customized Text in the Prompt List

Goal:
Display the text "All State-Province" instead of "All geographies" at the prompt list in SSRS
Problem:
I tried googling around and in the end I don't know how to solve it.
Information:
*Im using SQL server 2012
I don't use Report Server 2012, but in 2008 the following applies.
It depends on how you're populating your parameter,
If you're declaring the values in a list
Right click on the parameter, and change the label text.
or.....
If you're populating from a query then you need to ensure that the value you're using to populate the label returns "All State-Province" instead of "All geographies".
One way round this would be to set up a calculated field on the query used to populate the dataset
something like
=iif(Fields!LabelText.Value="All geographies","All State-Province",Fields!LabelText.Value)
Then use that field as the label.
I see your update..
What I believe you need to do, is set up a new calculated field on your GeographyStateProvince dataset
Call it NewLabelText.
Then use the expression
=iif(Trim(Ucase(Fields!ParameterCaptionIndented.Value))="ALL GEOGRAPHIES","All State-Province",Fields!ParameterCaptionIndented.Value)
Then as shown in my previous screen print, use the new calculated field instead of ParameterCaptionIndented
You can see your datasets on the left of this picture.

Access conditional formatting - adding text instead of color?

I have an Access 2003 report and some of the fields within the report are NULL. I can use conditional formatting to change the color and other aspects of the text-box control but what I want to do is to display "XXXXXXXXXXXXXX" in fields where there is no data (i.e. NULL). Can this be done using conditional formatting?
The best place to do this is in the query which the report should be based on. However, it is possible to set a control in a report to, say:
=Nz(MyField,"Text")
You will have to ensure that the control has a name other than the default assigned name, which is the name of the field.

Reporting Services - setting a field value dynamically based on parameter

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")