sql server reporting services: I have a reporting services 2000 report that has only one string report
parameter with a prompt 'Select a Project'. The project list contains
project names that are so long that they take up about 95% of the page
width and the View report button becomes a partially visible button
with a horizontal scroll bar to scroll further to the right to view the
entire page.

My users hate to have to scroll to the right. They are requesting a
fixed width dropdownlist with fully visible 'View report' button.
We want to make our DDL pretty narrow so that it only shows the first n
characters of the project name string when the DDL is not dropped down.
When the user
drops the list down we want to resize it wide enough to show the entire
string.
We could also assign a tool tip to the DDL if we could supply a unique
tip
to each row in the DDL???

Any ideas? Does SSRS 2005 let the designer specify the parameter
control width?

Many thanks in advance.

I've found that the parameter panel is not at all configurable and have
been creating a front-end web page for each report giving me total
control over presentation. Then I hide the parameter panel via a
parameter on the URL. It's my understanding RS 2005 has more control
over the parameter panel.

Many thanks, Kent.