"Wayne Allenton" <wall461@ecy.wa.gov> wrote in message
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> I've spent almost a week googling, blogging, attended the intro to
> Reporting
> Services training and still have not found a way to pass multiple
> parameters
> to a report (I don't want to run a report for one employee at a time, but
> let the user select multiple employees, then run the report and include
> the
> data for all employees selected at once). It seems there is conflicting
> information out there -- some say this can't be done, while I've seen some
> references to building an RDL Generator on the fly.
>
> This certainly doesn't seem like something that should be that difficult
> to
> do, and I would think it would be something that Microsoft would have
> envisioned since most ASP applications I'm familiar with allow for user
> input and then generate the report. The ability to select more than one
> of
> a parameter has always been a requirement on all the projects I've worked
> on
> in the past.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how we can do this? Is there a method in
> the
> web service we're missing (the URL approach doesn't work because of the
> length constraint, plus I don't think it allows passing multiple values
> for
> the same parameter), or do we have to develop our own RDL generator
> (argh!).
> How about a beta for the 2005 release - Is it available and would it have
> something that would make this as easy as I think it should be?
>
> Any help would be great! We're about to abandon Reporting Services and go
> back to Crystal Reports (yuck!).
>
>