I have a report with a parameter which allows multiple selecttions. Now what ssrs has done is that it has added a "select all " option in the parameter drop down. What I need is that if the user does not select anything all should be selected. That is I want all as default value. Please help.
thanks
Using SSRS 2008, you have a couple of options. If your parameter is populated from a dataset/query, then you should be able to choose Get Values From A Query in the Default Values tab of the Parameter. If you select the dataset that your lookup is being populated from, and the ID column, all values will be selected when you run the report.
If your parameter is populated via a list you have entered, then choose Specify Values in Parameter Properties and Add all the Labels/Values in your list.
I'm not sure if this is the same for SSRS 2005.
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I have a scenario in my SSRS report. There are two parameters with dependency. If i select an individual values in the 1st parameter, the 2nd parameter values are properly selected by default with 'Select All' values matching the individual value of the 1st parameter. But when i select more than one values in the 1st parameter, the 2nd parameter values are not getting refreshed automatically to 'Select All'. It is still with the values selected for the individual values of 1st parameter. I understand SSRS is not very interactive like other reporting tools. But is there a workaround for this ?
Have you tried setting the default values AND available values setting to the same dataset query rather than just the default setting? It might not be applicable in your case but it normally works for me.
I am facing a problem with ssrs report. I want to set an optional parameter of date/time parameter. But besides I want to specify available values to be redirected to other dataset query. Is there any possible way to do it.
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 have a SSRS report with multi select parameter option. I'm able to either select few or all. But in my scenario the parameter section itself is optional. If nothing is selected no data should come based on the parameter.
Is there a way to do that in SSRS?
In my outer report, the one that the user runs, I just have a list with only 1 thing inside: a subreport.
The subreport takes a UserId and calculates a few stats using 4 different tablixes and datasets.
What I want the outer report to do is present the user with a list of UserIds as a multivalue parameter, and pass the selected values to the subreport.
However, what is doing is to pass ALL possible values to the subreport resulting in long delays, hundreds of pages and unwanted data.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
I suspect one issue is the userid parameter has default values from the initial setup/query automatically setting the userid to all possibilities?
Also, the sub report should also have the same parameter as the outer one. Ensure this is also a multi-select but hidden and has no default values.
Then on the sub report properties you can set the userid parameter property to the main one.
I just set a filter of the values in the dataset that pulls all UserIds to be IN the paramter with the user selection.