I am using SSRS reports in MS CRM 4.0
I have two datetime parameters in my report. They are fine until someone type in an invalid format, e.g. 9/30/2008 or 40/09/2008 or random text. It logs an Error in the event log but my manager doesn’t want to see it.
Now, just wondering how to do a client side validation and stop the report gets executed if the validation failed. Or do you know how to just stop user typing into the input boxes so they can only pickup a date from the calendar control?
Any advice will be welcomed.
One way to trick this into happening is using cascading parameters that depend on the date fields. If these fail to populate then the report itself will not populate.
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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 was going to ask this on the Splunk forums, but for some reason I haven't got a validation email after a few hours and multiple attempts, so I thought I would try here.
I create a search from a .csv data source and save a report from this search. I then selected the fields I want. Screenshot:
This works great. Then I send this report over to a dashboard so I can make some nice graphs and all the fields are gone and I have no option to map the fields.
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As you can see there's no option to use the fields I selected in the report even though this is an import of that report. I tried manually mapping a field, and even that only shows up in the Reports view and not in any dashboards/panels. Is there something I'm missing here?
I suggest that you go to the report and choose the "Add to dashboard" option. Keep both the report and the dashboard in the same app. "Permanent" fields are defined within the context of an app. "Temporary" fields (created by the rex command, for example) exist only within the context of a report.
Using Business Intelligence Development Studio, I am creating a report for SSRS that requires the user to add a few notes before being printed. The notes do not need to be sent back to the SQL Server that the report is being generated from, they just need to be included when the report is printed or exported. I have some other solutions including:
Exporting to Word for edit, then the user can manually publish to pdf & send
Including parameters for the note fields which involves pulling the report, then adding in the notes and lastly re-pulling the report again to include the data
But I really don't want to add the extra steps to the user's process unless necessary. Has anyone tried this before? I've been tinkering and searching and have had no luck.
Thanks in advance.
Input to an SSRS report comes from data sources and the parameters. Some server settings are applied, but all the per-report stuff is from either of those two places.
Based on the OP comment, I would add a text parameter that allows blank values. You can set a default value of ="" so that the report will run on first access. Then any text the users adds can be inserted into the report simply by referring to the parameter's value.(=Parameters!MyParam1.Value)
user is pulling the report first to analyze the data. So they would pull it once, then add the notes, and then pull the report again with the parameters added.
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.
In order to populate a textbox in a page header I am setting up a parameter (as you cannot use Fields) and referencing this in the textbox. The parameter has the Default Value set to "From Query" and the Dataset and Value Field are set accordingly. This works a treat in developmentt in Visual Studio 2005. Once I have deployed the report and am viewing the report in the ReportViewer control I get the error:
"Parameter validation failed. It is not possible to provide valid values for all parameters. (rsParameterError)".
If I remove the parameter, the report works fine.
(Strange thing is that I thought I had this working earlier).
You've probably checked, but has the default value copied over? I've had issues in the past with reporting services where the default values were lost when I moved a report from one box to another.
Thanks for the answer - it has pointed me in the right direction...I have been using my own program to deploy multiple reports so rarely look at them via the Report Manager website. Anyway - I just deployed the report on my home PC and it worked fine....looking at the report in Report Manager on both PCs I found that "Prompt User" on the PC that wasn't working was not ticked...go figure. Ticking this resolved the problem.
I am liking the results that I am getting from SSRS, but I am quite new to it and am finding some things (like this) a little frustating...mouse and keyboard are lucky to not find themselves thrown out the window!