We currently have a report that groups by department (which is a three digit number) run by Finance. Finance currently run this report for all departments and then copy\paste the various departments to the various people. I've shot myself in the foot once I noticed they did this and said I'll set the report up so that they can run by department.
However, it appears some people receive reports for multiple departments and some people receive the same departments as others. For example, the Sales and Marketing director will receive the report for the Sales dept AND the Marketing Dept in one report, whereas a Sales manager will only see the report for Sales etc.
I want to use a parameter so that the user can select a Name\Role via a user-defined list and the report then runs to display all data from departments linked to that role, but i'm stuck on how to do this. For example, Bob needs to see department 100 and 110, but Mike only needs to see 100. I can add a non-queried parameter for Mike with a value of 100, but how do I add Bob with both 100 and 110? The best I can come up with at the moment is ignoring the manager names and just have a long multi-value selection box where the required departments are selected and it's assumed the user knows which departments go to which manager.
I've got a feeling this is simple and i'm just not seeing it but I could be wrong! I'm using SSRS 2005 by the way (yes, I know - upgrades are on the way).
Thanks in advance