"ISGADMIN" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to implement dynamic sorting using Reporting Services. I have 3
> dropdowns on a page which contain the list of fields returned by a
> stored procedure. What I am doing is creating the <Sorting> tag and its
> children dynamically based on the sort the user selected. Then I am loading
> the report definition (.rdl) into an Xml doc and I am adding the dynamically
> created <Sorting> string to the doc at the appropriate location in the
> document as if I had added sorting to the report using the Visual Studio IDE.
> Then I turn the Xml doc into Byte[] and I am using this updated Byte[] array
> to update the report definition. The problem is when I render the report
> using the Render method, sorting does not take place as if the original .rdl
> is used instead of the one I updated? Is there a way to dynamically deploy
> the updated report definition? Is caching the culprit? Am I missing a step?
> Is there a simpler way to implement dynamic sorting using RS?
>