Passing Multivalue Parameters Through a Report Link

I've created a line chart in my report which lists number of transactions by month. I've also created a report to list transactions by day. My goal is for the user to select a month and link the report to the graph with the selected month divided up into days (in other words, the user wants to see the number of transactions for each day in the selected month).

Anyway, everything is working perfectly except for one thing. In the list of parameters that I am passing to the report for each day, I want to pass a multivalue parameter which contains all the transaction IDs the user selected in creating the report (these are supplied by a multivalue parameter). However, in the parameter dialog box where it asks for a value to send to the awaiting parameter, I do not know how to supply more than one value. If I need to pass one value, it will work fine. However, I would like to do something like:

JOIN(Parameters!TransactionID.value, ",")

for the value of TransactionID, but when I generate the report it is not accepting the values. I'm pretty sure its just a format issue, and I just need to know how exactly I should pass these values.

I already understand that when passing multivalue parameters in a URL you need something like:

TransactionID=1&TransactionID=2

...in order to select multiple values. However, this is a slightly different situation. I'm really running out of ideas, so any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you guys so much

can you please paste your select statement, multivalue parameters are automatically rendered if you have something like this in your select

select * from employees where managerid IN(select managerid from managers)

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Have you tried:

SELECT *

FROM Managers

WHERE ManagerID in (@.ManagerParm)

This works in Oracle (except for : instead of @.) and I would be surprised if it did not work in SQL server.

NOTE you will not be able to test it using the !, but it it will work for the report.

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I'm sorry I wasn't clear. The project I have is in RS 2005 and uses an analysis services data source and the select statement is entirely in MDX. However, the problem really isn't in the select statement. My problem is that I am creating a report link and I want to pass all the values selected in a multivalue parameter to the other report.

If you want to see reproduce the problem, try these steps:

Create a report with a multivalue parameter. Add a textbox. Right-click and select properties. Click the Navigation tab and select "Jump to Report". Select a valid report that accepts a multivalue parameter. Click the parameters button. In the parameter name column, select the multivalue parameter to receive the values. In the parameter value column, I need to pass the values for the current multivalue parameter. This is the problem I am having.

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Please read this related thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=163803&SiteID=1

It describes the various scenarios of passing multi value parameters to a drillthrough or subreport. In your case, it should be sufficient to just specify =Parameters!ParameterName.Value to pass all values along.

However, note that if the target report contains a parameterized MDX query and you want to use the passed-in parameter values directly in that query, the parameter values in the main report must represent the UniqueNames (not the caption which is usually the parameter label) - otherwise the target MDX query will most likely not work.

-- Robert

|||Thank you, it works perfectly!!sql