We're running Reporting Services under SQL 2008 (Not R2). I have data that I want to present that I need to be able to offer parameters for but I'm failing to get it working right.
Roughly we have the following:
Store #, Employee #, Employee Sale, Sale Category
What I would like to do is allow the report user to select the store (it's an ID but I'd like to associate text with it) and for each employee show the count of all sales in the past 90 days grouped by category. I don't need the individual sales, just the total count.
Is it easier to pull the data in and group it within the report or easier to sum it in the initial query? I was able to set a parameter for the store # as a separate dataset but couldn't tie it to the first data set so it never filtered. If I tied to the first data set then it displayed multiples rows for each store.
This shouldn't be as difficult as it seems. I think I'm missing something fairly easy. Unfortunately everything I look at online seems to be 2008 R2 using BIDS or later. I'm using Visual Studio 2010 and a Reporting Services Project.