Thank you very much for both of your responses.
I did assume that I would have to store parameter values in my own database
table to be able to save report parameters, so that is not really a problem.
In fact, my application already has a table to store parameters, I just have
to define a new parameter type, then put parameter names and values in the
existing table.
But I wouldn't get anywhere without SOAP. My gap in knowledge here was how
to do SOAP integration. I am now hurriedly learning how to do this, but it
doesn't seem overly complicated. It seems like there is a reporting services
object model, and I can somehow get the current parameter values from an
object, so I am content to keep hitting the books until the solution comes
together.
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.
Malik
[quoted text, click to view] "Donovan R. Smith [MSFT]" <donovans@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> While there's no easy way to do this, it is possible by making the
parameter default populate their
> values from a database table which looks up the last parameter values used
by that user (or a
> default if no row exists). You would then also need a set of queries
which stored the current
> parameter values in the database when the report is run.
>
> --
> Thanks.
>
> Donovan R. Smith
> Software Test Lead
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
> "Bruce Loehle-Conger" <bruce_lcNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e7sShOThEHA.3148@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > For the level of control you want you need to use web services (soap).
You
> > can definitely get the information you want with that. The URL access
will
> > not provide what you want.
> >
> > Bruce L-C
> >
> > "Abdul Malik Said" <diplacusis@hotmNOSPAMail.com> wrote in message
> > news:%23OdayAThEHA.3612@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > > (Reposting, reworded)
> > >
> > > I am writing a C# Web application with a web form that displays a
report
> > > using URL access method. The URL displays the report for the user, and
> > then
> > > they can pick their parameters and run the report.
> > >
> > > I want to know: how can I display the report to the user the next time
> > with
> > > all of the same parameters that they chose? I don't want a snapshot, I
> > want
> > > to refresh the data for the same parameters the user chose.
> > >
> > > Do I need to use form post method? or SOAP? Or is there a way to do
this
> > > with URL access.
> > >
> > > The problem is that when the user changes the value of a parameter,
the
> > URL
> > > does not change, so I cannot access that information from my C# Web
> > > application.
> > >
> > > Malik
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
