I'm learning MSBI tools and came across a requirement in SSRS wherein we need to constrain report parameter 2 with parameter 1.
i.e. if I have parameters setup on [AdventureWorks2008R2].[HumanResources].[Department] table and if I select "Group Name" (Parameter 1) as "Manufacturing" then the "Name" (Parameter 2) drop down should populate only relevant values("Production" and "Production Control") specific to selected parameter 1 value ("Manufacturing")
I have been exposed to OBIEE tool and know that under this tool we have a "constrain" option under Prompts to achieve the same.
I could come up with the following solution under SSRS:
Created two datasets for each of the parameters with below queries.
Parameter 1 (GroupName)
SELECT DISTINCT GroupName
FROM HumanResources.Department
Parameter 2 (DeptName)
SELECT Name
FROM HumanResources.Department
WHERE (GroupName = #GroupName)
This worked. However if there are 5 such parameters which are to be constrained then with this solution I would have to create 5 such datasets and accordingly build the WHERE clause for each parameter.
Is there a better solution to achieve the same (there should be..)
I'm new to SSRS and therefore would appreciate any pointers here.
Thanks!
What you are talking about is called "Cascading Parameters" and they are implemented exactly as you did. You can read about them here:
Adding Cascading Parameters (SSRS)
So if you need to implement 5 of such parameters you have to write 5 queries for 5 datasets each one containing WHERE referencing parameter defined in previous dataset
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I have 2 data sets that have the common column VNO. Now I want to get the report in ssrs like
VDate, Count('') from B for Vdate, Count('') from A for Vdate
Can anyone help me with the way, I tried the lookup but not able to get this output.
Note: I cannot join these two tables in SQL as these 2 tables are on separate instances and they are not connected and don't have permission to do so.
You need to use LOOKUPSET() . This returns an array which you can then check the length of like this
=LookupSet(Fields!InvoiceDate.Value, Fields!VDate.Value, Fields!VNO.Value, "DataSetB").Length
The 3rd argument is the returned value but as you are only getting a count, it does not matter what we return there. DataSetB is the case sensitive name of your second dataset.
I hope this is not a stupid question, but I have searched everywhere and have tried everything.
I have a dashboard and would like to group the tablix (The dashboard is inside the tablix) by one of the Parameters (Consultant). There are a few Data sets(queries) in the report and all of the Parameters are filtered with IN in the where clause.
The problem I have is that when I go to the row group properties and select the Parameter in the expression, then it automatically adds a (0) at the end. If I take the (0) away then I get the error message:
the group expression used in grouping 'Group1' returned a data type
that is not valid
I know the (0) is for getting the first value, but I am using Multi-valued Parameters.
I have tried one thing I found, but unfortunately it didn't work for me (SSRS Group By Parameter).
Edited:
This is to show you that there are multiple Data Sets(Queries) in this report
I have the dashboard in a tablix so that I can group for each Consultant, so when I choose 3 Consultant, I get 3 dashboards.
Expression used:
Then I get this error:
I have also tried using the CStr, but also no luck.
When I add the Parameter in any expression box it automatically put the (0) as below:
But then it doesn't use the parameter as I get an #Error where is should be the Consultant name.
I also used this option for page break but end up with graphs below each other:
This is what happens to the Charts(Sub Reports)
To give you an idea how the dashboard should look for each Consultant.
Regarding the other question I saw. I just tried exactly as they said but also no luck
I hope this isn't too much information. Just trying to help you help me.
Thank you!
UPDATE:
Parameter Properties:
Have you tried using the list tool to separate the sub reports by Consultant? A list acts like a container and will create whatever is inside for your grouping. You should also be able to apply a parameter to the list for filtering.
I am using Microsoft SQL Server Report Builder 3.0. I have created a Stored Procedure (stored_procedure1) in the database which has a Parameter (parameter1). Here, stored_procedure1 returns result1.
Then, I used stored_procedure1 to create a Dataset (dataset1) in the Microsoft SQL Report Builder 3.0. Next, I created a Table (table1) in Microsoft SQL Report Builder 3.0 with 2 rows and 2 columns (total 4 cells).
I would like to fill each element of table1 with result1 from dataset1. Hence, I set expression of each cell of table1 as follows:
=Sum(Fields!result1.Value, "dataset1")
When I run this report, it works perfectly and asks me to enter parameter1. However, I want to use single Dataset (dataset1) with different values of parameter1 for each cell of the table. Hence, I want to pass/set parameter1 with unique parameter_value for each expression of table cells. Say I want to set parameter1 = parameter_value1 for first cell.
For example, if I need to set parameter_value = 5, I did something like
=Sum(Fields!result1.Value, "dataset1"), Parameters!parameter1.Value = 5
I also tried following:
=Sum(Fields!result1.Value, "dataset1") & Parameters!parameter1.Value = 5.
It doesn't work.
In summary, I coudln't pass or set parameter value together with an expression.
Can we set/parameter value.
I would like to thank you in advance.
If anyone got stuck with this problem, I found a way around for this. T
here is no way one can pass parameter within expression.
You will need to create a subreport to do this. You can pass parameter to subreport.
Its little time consuming. However, it seems there is no other way around.
I have a parameter question in SSRS . I currently have 3 parameters set up, Permanent Employee then select P, Temporary Employee then select T and Partner Employee then select P.
So the user selects parameter one , Permanent and then selects parameter two, Temporary and then the third parameter, Partner.
This then feeds into my sql query to return the result set....like below .
AND (A.[EMPTYPE]=#EmploymentP1
OR A.[EMPTYPE]=#EmploymentP2
OR A.[EMPTYPE]=#EmploymentP3 )
So the question if I wanted one parameter that will allow one or more of the values to be selected, Permanent , temporary or Partner
to be selected. How to do this ? So a multi value parameter in SSRS. But how do you then feed those results into the query is the bit I dont understood yet. Any ideas?
If for example your single parameter was #Employment, you would use:
WHERE A.[EMPTYPE] IN (#Employment)
SSRS Internally parses this to valid syntax before sending the query to the database.
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I would have a similar thing on my website except I would need to have 4 of such non-identical blocks. When a user has not selected anything in a section, it means s/he has selected all of them. 1 of these blocks would have around 10 options while the other 3 would have 2-3 options each.
How do I pass what all a user has selected to SQL Server 2008? Please note I would have 4 sets of multiple params, and these 4 sets are basically 4 different columns in the row all containing integer id's. If and only if one param per section was passed, I would have done something like
select * from table where column1 = #param1, column2 = #param2 and so on.
but that is not the case, because a user could pass multiple values for #param1 and so on.
I can get this done, but I want to know the most efficient way.
If my post is not clear, please let me know.
EDIT:
Basically, if I am storing articles in the database, I have 4 columns in the row, each integer. And I want to query these articles based on these 4 columns, but the catch is to pass the multiple values for these columns NOT just one value per column.
If your client language supports it, you should look into table value parameters:
http://www.sqlteam.com/article/sql-server-2008-table-valued-parameters
if you can't use those, look into one on Arrays and Lists in TSQL:
http://www.sommarskog.se/arrays-in-sql.html
this is a very comprehensive list of dynamic search conditions in TSQL:
http://www.sommarskog.se/dyn-search.html
this may also help:
Sane/fast method to pass variable parameter lists to SqlServer2008 stored procedure
Try dumping all parameter values into the XML, then pass it to SQL Server, then parse it in the query.
Won't such a query work in this case?
SELECT *
FROM TABLE
WHERE COLUMN1 IN ( #param11, #param12, #param13 )
AND COLUMN2 IN ( #param21, #param22, #param23 )
and so on.