How to add DropDownList Control inside ReportViewer Control.

S

Sevu

I am working with ASP.NET.I am using ReportViwer Control to show my
report.I like to add dropdownlist with in the reportviewer control. (
Not top to the control some thing like that).I need to place dropdown
near to Export link ( Excel and PDF Export).Is it possible to add at
the dropdown list with in report viewer control?. I found the property
as ReportViewer.Controls.Add.But its not working.Please help me.

Regards,

S.Sevugan.
 
T

tfsmag

I don't believe it is possible to do what you want. You have to edit
the report itself to add a dropdown to your report. This is a fairly
simple venture in reporting services. I can say with a certain degree
of certainty that you cannot add things to the report as it renders in
the report viewer control. You can however, pass along parameters to a
reportviewer through other controls on the page, perhaps this is what
you're looking to do?
 
S

Sevu

Hi tfsmag,

Thanks for your reply.I am not want to have dropdownlist in
page and based on the selection in dropdown,refresh the control and
show the result.Instaed i need to have inside the control iteslf and
show the result based on selection.

You mentioned that we can add dropdownlist inside the
report.Is it possible?But i didnt found dropdown list in toolbox while
edit the report.Then how can we add dropdown list to the report
itself.Please help me in this regard.

If it is possible then my requirement will satisfy.Because i
will call the report in reportviewer control.So it displays the
dropdown inside the control itself.

For your information,I am working with ASP 2.0

Regards,
S.Sevugan
 
T

tfsmag

to have a dropdown appear in the report you need to add a new parameter
to the report, you will also need to create a new dataset to poulate
the dropdown once your parameter is created.

In your business intelligence studio go to report > report parameters.

Once you have the parameters window open click "add" and name your
parameter.
From there you will need to set the parameter's properties.

The "name" field should contain the name of the parameter.

the datatype will probably almost always be string, unless you're
pulling dates or numbers from the database in the dataset you use to
populate your drop down.

the "prompt" is what you want to appear next to the dropdownlist

if you want people to be able to select mulitiple values, check the
"multi value" checkbox, otherwise I think it's safe to leave the other
checkboxes alone, unless you do not want to allow null/blank values,
then you need to check those corresponding checkboxes.

under "available values", if you've created another dataset via a
query, select "from query" then pick the dataset you created as the
dataset, then you'll need to pick the value and label fields from your
dataset.

I hope this is what you're looking for, otherwise I just spent alot of
time for nothing!
 
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tfsmag,
I have followed this posting with interest.

I tried your recommendations, and I can't quite follow them.

In particulat, I don't understand the following:

under "available values", if you've created another dataset via a
query, select "from query" then pick the dataset you created as the
dataset, then you'll need to pick the value and label fields from your
dataset.

I don't "see" the "from query" that you referred to. Can you explain with a little more detail.

Thanks for your patience!!

danw
 

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