Question

I’m trying to build a report in Report Builder 2.0 that grabs some data from a query, and based on the results returned from that query, uses it as a parameter for a second query that returns a different set of data.

I have it setup so that the result (displayed in a table) of the first query is passed as a parameter to the second query. The problem is that only one value can be passed as the parameter. My intention was to pass EACH of the available values from the first result, and fill a table based on the results of each parameter. Is this possible?

NOTE: The structure of the database tables prevents writing a query to handle both actions in one query. Two queries is necessary.

Answer 1

I’m using Reporting Builder 3.0, I’m not sure if this solution applies to Report Builder 2.0.

You can pass a list of values to a parameter. In your query for the second parameter, instead of writing

WHERE column ='@FirstParameterName

write

WHERE column IN (@FirstParameterName)

Hope that helps.

Patrick