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Description The View Parameters dialog appears if you try to view a report with OfficeWriter Designer .NET > View and the report contains parameters. The dialog will prompt you to enter values for the parameters. |
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What the dialog box does
A parameter is a value that filters the data displayed in your report. For example, if you have a sales report that lists each sales group and each sales rep within that group and you want to see one particular sales group at a time, you would use the Sales Group field as the parameter. Parameters are defined wherever report data sources and data sets are defined.
The View Parameters dialog will automatically load any default values and display any available value sets that are predefined in the report.
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The OfficeWriter Designer .NET will not validate parameter values selected by the end user: if an invalid parameter value is provided, the Report Server will return an error. |
In the event of cascading parameters, or parameters that depend on other parameters, the View Parameters dialog will leave all dependent parameters blank until all parameters that it depends on have been filled. For example, there are parameters: region (North America, Europe, Pacific), country (USA, Canada, France, England, Germany, Australia), and territories (areas in the countries). The territory parameter cannot be defined, and will remain blank, until a region and country have been selected. If a preceding parameter value is changed, all dependent parameters will be cleared.