awesome ... that was it ... much thanks
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Browse All TopicsI am new to SSRS and have created three reports in VS2005 and all seems to work fine in preview mode and when referenced via the URL and reporting services. The URL is something like this:
http://localhost/ReportSer
invoiceid=7 is a parameter that I can pass to this and in fact all three subreports and individually they all work via this url.
THE PROBLEM: I have a wrapper report that contains the three "subreports" and this too works fine in the VS2005 preview mode but I get a blank report when I call it from the URL ... I suspect that the invoiceid parameter is not reaching the subreports ... any thoughts on how to pass a parameter to a subreport?
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by: sjturner2Posted on 2008-03-25 at 05:39:07ID: 21201260
Yes, you need to pass the parameter down to the subreport from the wrapper report. Load the properties form up for each of the subreports and go to the 'Parameters' tab.
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Add a new parameter with the same name as the parameter that is defined in the subreport and set the value of the parameter as the name of the parameter in the wrapper report i.e : =Parameters!invoiceid.Valu
Make sure that the Parameter is defined in the wrapper report by going to the Report -> Report Parameters.. form.