I've tried searching all over the internet for anything close to what I'm looking for and have been very unsuccessful. What I am wanting to do is to create a parameter in SSRS that shows the name of the report in the parameters section. But I want it to only be a label, instead of having a drop down box. I know if you take away the available values it makes it editable. If there is even a way to make a default value read only without having to have available values I think that would be okay as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Parameters are not meant for this purpose. Even if you building the parameters with the RDlObjectModel the report parameter object doesn't even allow the parameter to be read only. I suggest to write your own custom interface to show headers and use a report viewer control.
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I have SSRS reports with date/time parameters which work fine.
Strange thing happens when I click date/time parameter's box while it's empty: dropdown list of unrelated text lines appears below the clicked box. Here's how it looks:
It appears in all reports with date/time parameters. In each report the values that appear are different.
In the Development Studio while previewing a report it doesn't happen at all.
The parameters are defined as usual in very simple manner.
Google search didn't help. :(
Can anyone give me a hint, please, what is it and how to get rid of it? SSRS version: 14.0.1016.232, MVS version 2015.
I looks to me like it could be the contents of your browsers 'type-ahead' or 'auto-complete' history.
The field name probably has the same name as another field that you've input data into, in the past.
Try using another browser and if that's OK trying clearing your browser history. If you are using Chrome it's part of the "Autofill" data.
You could follow this guide to removing specific entries if that's better in your scenario.
https://osxdaily.com/2018/07/20/how-delete-chrome-autofill-suggetsions
I understand that this is not what SSRS is for, but I don't have the option of picking a tool. Ideally, nothing other than SSRS would be used.
We would like to implement commenting on our test reporting. What this means is that the user will click a button on a test, opening a comment subreport. I am trying to implement a subreport within this subreport with an input field, allowing the user to post a comment themselves.
From my understanding, SSRS only supports consuming user input through parameters, which I could use to populate a query that writes to the database. This is really less than ideal, since I would like the "submit" button to be inline. I'm really just looking to add an input and a submit button, which submits the input to our database. Trivial in html/javascript, seemingly impossible in SSRS.
Is it possible to extend an SSRS report to do this? What can I do to implement this requirement? Do I need to embed code / add a layer on top of the report to achieve this?
In other words, I require that the report be initially run, and then, optionally, for the user to be able to type in some text and hit "submit", which sends that text as a parameter to a subreport.
Does anyone know of a way to add an Excel icon somewhere more visible for the user to do an export without having to click on "Actions". Not sure if any of that is customizable?
Additionally, is there a way to create a drill-through report that renders in Excel. I was trying to figure out the RS:format stuff, but not sure how to use this.
I'm trying to make the report as user friendly as possible.
Thanks.
There certainly is, you can do an export using a URL as detailed in this MSDN article: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms154040.aspx.
All you need to do is set that as the action of an image you place on the report, and you have an export icon. The general format is:
http://myrshost/ReportServer?/myreport&rs:Format=Excel
The main item to note is that myrshost/ReportServer is not going to be the same address as you use when browsing through reports. Instead, it's probably going to be SERVERNAME/ReportServer_INSTANCENAME, filling in the name of your server and database instance respectively.
Edit: A more concrete example of what this would look like:
http://sqlhost/ReportServer_Report2016?/Rentals/Balance%20Overview&rs:Format=Excel
Is it possible to add a report description (text) near the parameters area, before the report is run in the Report Builder 3.0. Essentially, when the users click the report and right before they run it, I want to provide them with a small description of what the report does and what the parameters. I can do that in the footer but it wont help, because the footer is only generated after the report has executed. Please let me know.
Thanks.
This is not possible with the default SSRS interface. You'll have to wrap SSRS with your own interface to add this.
To build your own SSRS interface, you can use a few different methods, such as embedding a ReportViewer control in a Asp.NET application, or using URL access in an iframe. See How to change the SSRS input parameters position in report
Of course, with Javascript and client side DOM manipulation, you probably could sneak your content into place, but it's not a supported option.
The main problem is that you can't show a report if parameters are needed for it until those parameters are chosen. If you don't want to provide default parameters another way to solve this problem is by actually having 2 reports.
In report #1 you put the parameters and the text box of instructions, but nothing actually using those parameters.
In report #2 you put the parameters and the actual report.
At the bottom of report #1 have a button, that just goes to report #2 passing the parameters selected.
I've used this technique to provide instructions on parameters when I want a quick-and-dirty solution (as opposed to a proper solution such as what Jamie suggested with embedding)
So I have a report in Reporting Services 2005. In it is one parameter (ConnectionString) which determines which data source the report will use. It also has several other parameters which are dropdown lists derived from the data source chosen in the ConnectionString parameter.
In Report Manager, this works great. All of the dropdowns are greyed out at the beginning. When you choose your data source, the page requeries/repaints and all of the available parameter values for the other parameters are filled in based on the queries for those fields.
However ...
In the ReportViewer web control, when the report is first loaded up, instead of dropdown boxes all of the other parameter fields are just empty textboxes. Choosing a different data source for the ConnectionString parameter doesn't requery/repaint the other parameters.
I've been flipping through the ReportViewer programming reference to see if there's some way to replicate the Report Manager's way of reloading the webpage with the report viewer upon certain parameter changes, but I can't find anything there that isn't over my poor little .NET head.
Any ideas?
Not sure if this is any help but I do have a suggestion. I would try pulling the logic for dropdown boxes out of the report and put them in an ASP.net page. Then pass the parameters to the report and control the rendering/refreshing.
HTH
UPDATE: So it turns out you must provide a default value for any parameters which in turn affect other parameters in your report in order to get the dropdown box to load properly on initialization. Also note this is recursive - so if you have a parameter which affects another parameter which affects another parameter, both the first and second parameter must have default values.