Question

I’m designing a SSRS report in Visual Studio for use as a local report (so a SQL Server is not involved).

I have a table with customers/addresses that has the following columns:
AddressID
Firstname
Lastname
Street

Another table keeps orders and looks like this
OrderID
CustomerAddressID
ShopAddressID

So two columns from my order table link to datasets in the address table. I want to display both addresses in my report. The datasource for the report is a xsd dataset.

What’s the best way to do this in SSRS? I’m pretty new to SSRS and kind of lost with the dataregions, lists, etc.

Answer 1

You should edit the source for the second dataset to include a parameterized query based on the first one. Something like:

SELECT * FROM other_table 
WHERE CustomerAddressID = @adress 
   OR ShopAddressID = @address

Of course you should create the address parameter as report parameter(pointing to the first dataset)

Hope this makes sense.