How to save the parameters to a RS report

I have several RS reports which have a number of parameters like
Company Code, Plant, Movement type, GL Accounts, Period, Material type,
Material,etc.
Sometimes each user runs the report with the same selection except that
they change something like the period for which the report is run. Is
there a way we can provide a mechanism to the users to save the
parameters for the reports and retrieve the parameter settings for a
report and modify and run them. We can do this in Business objects.
Thanks
Kareni think you are looking for the subscriptions feature in Report Manager.
Click on a report. Next click "subscriptions" near the top. You can now
setup a subscription with different parameters.
Taz
"KarenM" <karenmiddleol@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have several RS reports which have a number of parameters like
> Company Code, Plant, Movement type, GL Accounts, Period, Material type,
> Material,etc.
> Sometimes each user runs the report with the same selection except that
> they change something like the period for which the report is run. Is
> there a way we can provide a mechanism to the users to save the
> parameters for the reports and retrieve the parameter settings for a
> report and modify and run them. We can do this in Business objects.
> Thanks
> Karen
>|||Hi Tarun,
No I know of subscriptions that is when I expect the report to run in
background. What I am looking for is if users run the same report many
times with a specific parameters it is not convenient for them to type
them everytime they would like to save the parameters and retrieve and
use them
Thanks
Karen
Tarun Mistry wrote:
> i think you are looking for the subscriptions feature in Report Manager.
> Click on a report. Next click "subscriptions" near the top. You can now
> setup a subscription with different parameters.
> Taz
>
> "KarenM" <karenmiddleol@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1158489967.873086.53010@.d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> >I have several RS reports which have a number of parameters like
> > Company Code, Plant, Movement type, GL Accounts, Period, Material type,
> > Material,etc.
> >
> > Sometimes each user runs the report with the same selection except that
> > they change something like the period for which the report is run. Is
> > there a way we can provide a mechanism to the users to save the
> > parameters for the reports and retrieve the parameter settings for a
> > report and modify and run them. We can do this in Business objects.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Karen
> >|||This is not a feature that is included in the product.
We created a system that did this. The first step is that you have to
create your own Visual Studio application that you will use for
reporting, probably including a ReportViewer control.
You would create your own fields on the screen to accept these
parameters.
Then you would have to create a system for saving the reports.
We collected all the paramters into an xml string and saved it to a
table, along with a userID and a name the user gave to the particular
parameter set.
KarenM wrote:
> Hi Tarun,
> No I know of subscriptions that is when I expect the report to run in
> background. What I am looking for is if users run the same report many
> times with a specific parameters it is not convenient for them to type
> them everytime they would like to save the parameters and retrieve and
> use them
> Thanks
> Karen
> Tarun Mistry wrote:
> > i think you are looking for the subscriptions feature in Report Manager.
> >
> > Click on a report. Next click "subscriptions" near the top. You can now
> > setup a subscription with different parameters.
> >
> > Taz
> >
> >
> > "KarenM" <karenmiddleol@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:1158489967.873086.53010@.d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> > >I have several RS reports which have a number of parameters like
> > > Company Code, Plant, Movement type, GL Accounts, Period, Material type,
> > > Material,etc.
> > >
> > > Sometimes each user runs the report with the same selection except that
> > > they change something like the period for which the report is run. Is
> > > there a way we can provide a mechanism to the users to save the
> > > parameters for the reports and retrieve the parameter settings for a
> > > report and modify and run them. We can do this in Business objects.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Karen
> > >|||That is exactly what we are after. Could you kindly share the code for
the same. It is such a vital requirement for users I am surprised that
Microsoft missed including this in one of the RS support packs.
Thanks
Karen
cowznofsky wrote:
> This is not a feature that is included in the product.
> We created a system that did this. The first step is that you have to
> create your own Visual Studio application that you will use for
> reporting, probably including a ReportViewer control.
> You would create your own fields on the screen to accept these
> parameters.
> Then you would have to create a system for saving the reports.
> We collected all the paramters into an xml string and saved it to a
> table, along with a userID and a name the user gave to the particular
> parameter set.
> KarenM wrote:
> > Hi Tarun,
> >
> > No I know of subscriptions that is when I expect the report to run in
> > background. What I am looking for is if users run the same report many
> > times with a specific parameters it is not convenient for them to type
> > them everytime they would like to save the parameters and retrieve and
> > use them
> >
> > Thanks
> > Karen
> > Tarun Mistry wrote:
> > > i think you are looking for the subscriptions feature in Report Manager.
> > >
> > > Click on a report. Next click "subscriptions" near the top. You can now
> > > setup a subscription with different parameters.
> > >
> > > Taz
> > >
> > >
> > > "KarenM" <karenmiddleol@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > > news:1158489967.873086.53010@.d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> > > >I have several RS reports which have a number of parameters like
> > > > Company Code, Plant, Movement type, GL Accounts, Period, Material type,
> > > > Material,etc.
> > > >
> > > > Sometimes each user runs the report with the same selection except that
> > > > they change something like the period for which the report is run. Is
> > > > there a way we can provide a mechanism to the users to save the
> > > > parameters for the reports and retrieve the parameter settings for a
> > > > report and modify and run them. We can do this in Business objects.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Karen
> > > >