So this is like my third SSRS question and I've only been looking at it for a day :S
This question may be a little sketchy as I'm still not up with the terminology.
Basically I have a list that is bound to a "Select" of SiteId's. Inside this list I have a sub report. The idea is to pass these SiteId's into the sub report one at a time to generate a report for each site Id.
But I can't figure out the expression required to pass this value in?
Way off the mark? or is there an answer to this question
Look at the properties for the sub report (right click on the sub report and hit properties). In the properties dialog, there is a parameters tab where you can link parameters from the sub report to values from the parent report. So, if you have subreport with a SiteID parameter, you can link that to the SiteID value from the list.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms160348%28SQL.90%29.aspx
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I have encountered issues with using "filtering menus" in report during development of database aplication for my employer.
For my filtering options I created buttons with OnClick Event:
DoCmd.GoToControl "MyReportField"
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdFilterMenu
These buttons are embedded in subreport. Initial thought was to create buttons, similar to the one in ribbon, with filtering options (in final stages of development I am planning to disable/hide Access ribbon for users). I created 5 buttons, 3 for fields with data type Text, 1 with data type Date and 1 with Boolean data type.
To quote a classic, the buttons "are misbehaving." When I test their function in form in form view, the "BooleanFilterBtn" on click already doesn't display Yes/No options (or something similar), but displays 2 numeric values (like -24441 or -29696). And filter is not working whatsoever.
Another problem arises when I try to have active more than one filter at a time. Date field filter and one of the Text field filters are working when combined with another filter option. But after using one of the two remaining Text field filters, when I click any other of the filtering buttons, the FilterMenu becomes blank.
Worth noting is that right-clicking on given field in report works without issues, but not the way I want.
Given these rather odd behaviours I think I am missing something. Is there a way how to make FilterMenus work the way as familiar from the ribbon? If not, is there any other option with similar design, options that I could try out?
Additional info:
Subreport is connected with form through "MyIDField." Both subreport and form have query data source, already saved.
All field names and data types are matching.
EDIT: Also I should have written that the FilterBtns doesn't work if I open the subreport separately, they work only when I open form (with subreport in it), eventhough the FilterBtns are using only controls from the report.
EDIT2: Code behind filter button filtering Boolean data type (boolean data are in Report in form of Yes/No check-fields, as mentioned in June7 comment bellow):
Private Sub btn_FiltrGarant_Click()
DoCmd.GoToControl "Garant"
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdFilterMenu
End Sub
When I change this code to:
Private Sub btn_FiltrGarant_Click()
Me.Garant.SetFocus
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdFilterMenu
End Sub
Brings no effect, only that the loading time of actual FilterMenu takes a bit longer.
Example for Text data type field:
Private Sub btn_FiltrRzh_Click()
DoCmd.GoToControl "ZkracenyNazev"
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdFilterMenu
End Sub
Changing code in the same manner:
Private Sub btn_FiltrRzh_Click()
Me.ZkracenyNazev.SetFocus
DoCmd.RunCommand acCmdFilterMenu
End Sub
Brings no effect too.
May it be that the FilterMenu is not meant to/available to be used in reports? Or may it be disabled in default settings of Access?
Because also the situation, that if I open the Report separately (not in form as a subreport, but just as report by itself in report view), using any of the FilterBtns gives me RunTime error 2046, that the action GoToControl is not available. Changing to SetFocus eliminates the error, but the button doesn't bring up any FilterMenu at all. But these issues are valid only if I open report separately (which is not my interest), but might be helpfull as information.
Right now, I don't know where the problem could be. Anything I could think of was data type/naming mismatch, but that's not the case.
FINAL EDIT: After almost a month (there were holydays) of trying and searching for a way how to make this setup work I decided to switch from subreport to subform, in which I will try to obtain the same functionality.
Maybe just reports are not supposed to be handled the way I wanted to.
Just out of courtesy I am putting June7 answer as verifiedfor the time spent on helping me.
Thank you.
Don't know why your yes/no field displays 2 numeric values like -24441 or -29696 in the filter menu. Regardless, not able to get the filter menu to act on a yes/no field at all. However, get around that with an expression in report RecordSource query that changes the Yes/No field from Boolean to text values and use the calculated field in report design, like:
SELECT *, IIf([fieldname], "Yes", "No") AS IsSomethingTrue FROM tablename;
Use Me.controlname.SetFocus instead of GoToControl so the report will open independently or as a sub object.
You have to be careful how you refer to a Report object that is within a subForm container. They do not behave the same as subforms in many ways.
Even a simple refresh is actually difficult to achieve, as reports are not meant to be dynamic like a form.
To refer to it in VBA you have to use the full form syntax;
[Forms]![MainFormName].[Form]![subReportHolderName].Requery
Using the normal Me.blah.blah reference will not work with a form embedded report. Note that you refer to the container - NOT the report object.
I have built a report which lists all the loans that are available for a specified date range(below is the screen shot of the report).There are a number of filters and data logic involved in pulling this report.The numbers high-lighted in yellow are the total no of loans in each bucket.When the user clicks on the totals I need to open a sub report with all loans falling in that bucket.I have created a sub report which accepts loan numbers as a parameter and set it to allow multiple values. Set the text box properties on the main report to go to the subreport when clicked on the totals.But I am unaware of how to pass multiple loan numbers from the main report to sub report.
Any help would be much appreciated.
What I am currently doing is passing required filters/details to the sub report , so that it can reevaluate. Reevaluating the report takes a lot of of time as there are many condition that need to be evaluated. It would be quicker if I could send the list of loan numbers.
Rather than pass a list, you'll need to pass in enough detail so your subreport can reevaluate and come back with the same set of loans.
This might be a little simplistic but base on your screen show you would pass in the Date Range column value. I'll assume for now (as I have no more information on your data) that the column is just a text column as it appears above.
So you sub-report would accept a daterange parameter and you would pass this as =Fields!DateRange.Value. The subreport would then do something like..
SELECT * FROM myLoansTable WHERE DateRange = #daterange
If there are more parameters set in the main report, you may need to pass those too so your subreport gives the same set of loans as displayed in the main report.
Hope that makes sense.
I'm using BIDS Helper in a tabular project and I used a functionality to go from a Excel pivottable to a report with complete list of BI metrics. I already constructed the link as
http://reports.ABCDEFJ.net/ReportsDW/Pages/Report.aspx?ItemPath=%2fABCD+BI+Reports%2fDEV%2fDicion%c3%a1rio+de+Dados%2fR07+Dicionario+Dados&PRM_CUBE=01_CUBE_STOCK&rs:Command=Render
the link has a PRM_CUBE parameter with a cube to filter. My SSRS report already has a parameter PRM_CUBE with a combo box.
What do I need to do to link the PRM_CUBE parameter to the SSRS parameter/combox? The objective is naturally to:
nothing selected on combo, nothing appears
A is selected in the combo or sent via link, show it on combo and list associated values
B is selected in the combo or sent via link, show it on combo and list associated values
At this moment the report completely ignores the query string parameter.
Hi I am using SSRS 2008.
My set up is MainReport with dataset1 and 1 parameter - OrderID. One of the columns in dataset1 is ShippingID.
My other report called - SubReport has 1 multivalue paramter - ShippingID.
I am trying to use ShippingID from Main report as multi-value parameter for Subreport.
I tried different threads here but mostly they are diffrent than my scenario.
How do I go about setting this up, is that even possible?
I have been trying to set it up for whole day but unsuccessfully.
In my scenario one Order can be on multiple shipments.
One of the things I tried is creating new multi-value parameter in MainReport - call it shippingIDs_sub and mapping its default value to dataset1.ShippingID. But when I try to run report I get error "The 'shippingIDs_sub' parameter is missing value" - because my MainReport would sometimes return NULL in ShippingID column.
My scenario is very much similar to this
SSRS passing parameter to subreport
although I sometimes get NULLs in the column used as source for multi-value parameter.
Is there any way to filter out NULLs and run subreport only for existing IDs?
In the Action where you call the sub-report, where you map to shippingIDs_sub, use an expression to pass some valid value whenever the value in your dataset is NULL.
=IIF(IsNothing(Fields!ShippingID.value),"Some Valid Value",Fields!ShippingID.value)
As to this:
Is there any way to filter out NULLs and run subreport only for
existing IDs?
No, you can't turn off the ability to go to a subreport, but you can "hide" it by changing the appearance of whatever your user clicks on so that it doesn't look like it's clickable. For example, in our reports, when something is clickable, we make it underlined in blue. So if I don't want to user to click it, I just make it the same font color/style as all the other text. But it doesn't stop a determined user from clicking on it anyway if they want.
I have a main report with several sub reports, each of these with slightly different queries and different ways to show the data.
So, in my situation, I have a textbox that needs to compile data from a few different reports with varying criteria. E.G.
MainReportTextbox =(Sum(columnA, "Main Dataset"))-(SubReportTextBox))
OR
MainReportTextbox =(Sum(columnA, "Main Dataset"))-(subReportVariable))
I saw a few suggested solutions, such as this. Which uses the =[Reports]!MainReport!SubReport!Textbox scheme. The problem is that [Reports] is not a recognized identifier.
I did consider to scrap sub reports and just have everything run on the same main report, but we lose the functionality of being able to use the reports individually, without maintaining the same thing in two places.
So I guess my question is, can you pull variables or element(particularly textboxes in a table) values from sub reports?
If the answer is simply no, please show me some information about why it is no or how it is no from MSDN or a valid source and give some valid counter suggestions.
The links in the question and comments sometimes refer to non-SSRS reports: the syntax [subreport].[Report]![MyFieldName] or [Reports]![YourReportName]![YourSubReportName]![TheValueFromTheSubReportYouWantToReference] are not used in SSRS. It is, however, used in designing MS Access reports, as ojeffrey points out in the discussion you link to.
There is no common method to access data in a subreport. The SSRS model is that parent report data is processed, subreport data is processed, the subreports are rendered, results go back to the parent, then parent is rendered, including the subreport as appropriate. The only data passed between the two is parameters are passed into the the subreport, and rendered output is passed back to the parent. You'll see the that data passed in from the parent must be as report parameters here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms160348(v=sql.100).aspx
All parameters that are required by the subreport must be included in
the Parameters list. If a required parameter is missing, the subreport
is not displayed correctly in the main report.
For citing authoritative sources:
This discussion sums it up:
No, referring to a report item in a subreport is not allowed.
But that is a bit old, there is also this more recent discussion of work-arounds, provided by Microsoft employee and a MS BI MVP:
You are going to need to replace the subreport item with a data region
like list, table, or matrix to be able to get the proper reference you
are looking for.
[Skipping down to another post]...
Now, it seems you want to calculate the
difference between main report and the subreport. Also, because they
have the different data source, so you cannot use nest
table/matrix/list, right? If so, one workaround I can think of is
pass parameter to the sub report and calculate the total/subtotal in
sub report. I mean, create several hidden/ internal parameters, pass
the values from main report to sub report through parameters and then
calculate the total/subtotal there.
Jeroen's answer to the linked question point towards the direction I would go: use a "Shared Dataset" and enable caching if the dataset is slow to execute. The same dataset execution can then be used for the parent and subreports. This can change the use of parameters: they usually get moved from the SQL query to the filter of the Dataset in the report.
But with the Lookup function introduced in SSRS 2008R2, you can get very flexible with report level joins between datasets.
The details of how I'd design this depend a lot on how much other data needs to get passed back and forth, and how neatly the queries for the reports can be knit together.
Create variable in main report and update it in sub report so you can get value back to main report
ex:
Create formula in main report with name {#Total} place flowing in it
WhilePrintingRecords;
shared Numbervar myTotal := 0;
NOTE : placing ; will not print value and without ; will print value in above example value will not be printed if you want to print value of formula just remove ; from second line ex
WhilePrintingRecords;
shared Numbervar myTotal := 0
now place {#Total} in report header of your main report
now create second formula in sub report where you want to add subtotal to main report formula with name {#addTotal} place following lines in it
WhilePrintingRecords;
shared Numbervar myTotal;
myTotal := myTotal + 200; //or any formula or field
add this formula to place in sub report where you want to add value to total
now create formula in main report to show grand total with name {#showTotal} and place following lines in it
WhilePrintingRecords;
shared Numbervar myTotal;
myTotal
place {#showTotal} in your main report where you want to show this value in report but remember one thing you should place this formula after sub-report.
NOTE : to assign value to variable use := operator