We have an SSRS 2008 (not R2) report, which returns data for 2 different customer class types in a single datatable.
I have a request to have this report sent via email automatically to the user as an excel attachment. The user would like to have 2 worksheets in the spreadsheet. The first worksheet should have the result set including both customer class types and the second worksheet should only contain the result set for one of the 2 class types.
I am able to accomplish getting the 2 worksheets exported to excel, by adding a second data table to the report and setting the pagebreak property on the second table to start and to then set a filter on the second datatable, to only include the 1 class type the user wants.
I can then set up a subscription to automate this on schedule.
The issue that I have, is that I don't want 2 datatables to display when the user is executing the report on-demand via the SSRS web page. To accomplish this, I created a hidden boolean parameter which I use (in the expression) to set the value of the hidden property of the second datatable. This will allow me to hide the second datatable by default. I am expecting to be able to set the value to not hide when setting the parameters for the subscription. However, I can't seem to figure out how to set the value of this parameter in the Subscription. The parameters displayed in the subscription are the ones which are not hidden. This hidden parameter is not displayed in the subscription.
Is there a way to set the parameter values of either a hidden or internal parameter in a subscribtion? Optionally, if I can detect at runtime that the report is being executed by the subscription, then I can set the parameter value accordingly.????
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I have a drill down report in ssrs. Trying to pass the value of a parameter from parent report to child. Now in child report i already have a set of available values for that parameter. What i am trying to achieve is, when the child report loads the default value should be the one I am passing from the parent report and the report data should get loaded based on that and after the initial load the user can select form the drop down and refresh the report. For me the problem is when the child report is getting loaded its not taking the value of the parameter passed from the parent report.
Kindly help. Thanks.
I've set up a dummy report that does what you asked for and found that SSRS will just not work - not give an error at all - if you don't have it exactly right.
Here are the steps I followed to make it work.
Create the parameter on the parent report and ensure it is set and that you are setting it either at run time or via default.
Ensure that the parameter you want to SET exists in the child report and has NO default value (this may not be necessary, but will help with debugging if it goes wrong)
Make sure the child report parameter has the the available values for your drop down set and that the one you are passing is there
Set up the drill through using the action section of the properties and Go to report
Specify the drill through report
Choose the parameter from the Name drop down (the available parameters in the child report WILL be there) and set the Value to [#ParameterName]
Test
If you don't want a parameter on the parent report and just want to hard code the value you can skip step 1 and change step 6 to just use the value.
you need to set the default specific value to the parameter so it will not show you "Select Value" in dropdown list.
Once you send parameter from Parent report it will set the value.
I am building an SSRS 2005 report using BIDS. My report filters on date. When the selected date returns no data rows the report is blank, just the title is displayed, no table or column heading.
How can I change this to display a message like No data available. or Report is empty.?
You could set the property NoRowsMessage available on the report's table control like this:
Select the Tablix control and press F4 to view the Properties pane.
Find the NoRowsMessage property and set the value to whatever message you'd like.
You can also to format the message using the Font and TextAlign properties.
Here are some examples of what the report will look like under various settings:
Further Reading: Here is a Technet article on how to Set a No Data Message for a Data Region
Avoid NoRowsMessage and build your own conditional empty row
One problem (or feature if that's what you want) with NoRowsMessage is that it'll literally replace the entire table with just a plain old message string.
Which provides a relatively counter-intuitive end user experience in my opinion. Normally when no data is found by a system, we'd like to know something about what data was being looked for and what it would have looked like.
Instead, based off how to keep the structure of the Tablix when there is no data to show, you can do the following:
Insert New Header Row, outside the group and above the details record.
Right click on the side of the new row and Set Row Visibility
Set Visibility to the following expression which will count the rows inside the current Tablix and only set Visibility to True if there is no data.
=CountRows() > 0
Optionally, merge the cells and add your own message or just display an empty row
Here's a comparison of how the various options will render: (pick whichever look you think best fits your data and use case)
Right-click on whatever databound element(s) you are using in the report and there should be a property NoDataMessage There are a host of options there but the Caption is the first element I would look at.
I have one SSRS report with two linked reports pointing at it.
One is for users to click and view their data. Behind the scenes, I need it to pass User!UserID as a parameter and hide it.
On the other report, I need to set up a data driven subscription that passes the UserID as a value from the database.
If I publish the report with the parameter defaulted to a value of User!UserID, it will not let me save the subscription and gives an error of
"The '/Admin/Subscriptions/Recruiting Sign Ups' report or shared dataset has user profile dependencies and cannot be run unattended. (rsHasUserProfileDependencies) Get Online Help"
If I remove the default value from the report definition, the subscription works but I cannot get the other linked report to pass UserID as a hidden parameter using the Parameters tab on the SSRS interface (rather than in the RDL definition).
Is there a workaround to this that does not involve VB?
So to rephrase you have report A which you use as a subreport in reports B and C. to be able to make a subsciption to report A you need to remove the default value for the user parameter. the user parameter in report A is hidden and with a default value because you don't want users to be able to set it to someone else.
so there are two ways to solve the issue: get data driven subscriptions accept a default value, or find a way to pass parameters from reports B and C
pass parameters from report B and C:
the interface won't allow you to set hidden parameters, but it works. just open report A, change the parameter to visible, open report B and C, map the parameter, go back to A, set the parameter to hidden again.
get data driven subscriptions to accept a default value:
SSRS tries to be smart by finding out that the parameter has a default value set, but it shouldn't be too hard to fool. try getting the default value from a dataset which uses a sql username function, or something in this direction..
I am building an SSRS 2005 report using BIDS. My report filters on date. When the selected date returns no data rows the report is blank, just the title is displayed, no table or column heading.
How can I change this to display a message like No data available. or Report is empty.?
You could set the property NoRowsMessage available on the report's table control like this:
Select the Tablix control and press F4 to view the Properties pane.
Find the NoRowsMessage property and set the value to whatever message you'd like.
You can also to format the message using the Font and TextAlign properties.
Here are some examples of what the report will look like under various settings:
Further Reading: Here is a Technet article on how to Set a No Data Message for a Data Region
Avoid NoRowsMessage and build your own conditional empty row
One problem (or feature if that's what you want) with NoRowsMessage is that it'll literally replace the entire table with just a plain old message string.
Which provides a relatively counter-intuitive end user experience in my opinion. Normally when no data is found by a system, we'd like to know something about what data was being looked for and what it would have looked like.
Instead, based off how to keep the structure of the Tablix when there is no data to show, you can do the following:
Insert New Header Row, outside the group and above the details record.
Right click on the side of the new row and Set Row Visibility
Set Visibility to the following expression which will count the rows inside the current Tablix and only set Visibility to True if there is no data.
=CountRows() > 0
Optionally, merge the cells and add your own message or just display an empty row
Here's a comparison of how the various options will render: (pick whichever look you think best fits your data and use case)
Right-click on whatever databound element(s) you are using in the report and there should be a property NoDataMessage There are a host of options there but the Caption is the first element I would look at.
I am new to reporting services and have a reporting services 2005 report that I am working on to use as a base report template for our organization. I am trying to place the date that the report was last modified on the report server into the page header of the report. However, I keep getting a 'ParamX' parameter is missing a value error when I try to This is what I have done:
Set up a Parameter ReportName with a default value of Globals!ReportName. It is also hidden and internal.
Set up a Dataset ReportHeader that calls a stored procedure that returns the date the report was last updated or another date, if the report is not on the report server. It has a parameter #ReportName assigned to the Parameter!ReportName.Value. The Dataset returns values when run on the dataset tab in the BI tool.
Set up a Parameter ReportVersion that has a default value Query From based on the dataset ReportHeader and picking the ModDate column. It is the last parameter in the report parameters list.
I assign a textbox to the parameter.
When I preview, I get "The 'ReportVersion' parameter is missing a value whether I place it in the report body or page header (which is where I want it). I have deleted and added the parameter again, toyed with the hidden and internal settings on it.
What does this error really mean, what I am missing, and can I even do this with parameters?
Thanks In Advance
Jim
If I understand what you're doing, it sounds like you want to be using a field where you're implementing a parameter...
You are returning the ModDate from the data source, correct? If you're doing this, you can simply throw a text box in there, and use something like this: =Fields!modDate.Value to display it.
Parameters are values that go in to the query, fields are what it returns.
Hope this helps...
EDIT:: OK so are you trying to retrieve the mod-date column value from the reportserver db? If that's what we're talking about, you'll need to add a few things to the report. Add a datasource to report db, a dataset containing the date (query below), a list object in the report linked to the dataset, and a textbox in said list object to display the field. If you hit the report server with a query like this:
SELECT MAX(ModifiedDate) AS ModDate FROM catalog WHERE name='myReportName'
That will return your modifieddate from the ReportSErvices Database as a field that you can use.