Got this error message while trying to load a sub-report from an existing
report and passing a parameter into the sub-report. I created the report
parameter just like it did for the source report. Please help.

That means you forgot to provide a Prompt for the parameter in the
subreport.
Omitting the Prompt indicates to the server that the user should not be
prompted for a value (hence: read-only).

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