I’ve been following your tutorials and they’ve been very helpful.

However, I’m still looking for a way to use a parameter as a partial or complete part of a table name in a SQL query. I mean, for example:

SELECT * FROM ${table} or

SELECT * FROM ta${ble}

Does PRD have a way to do this?

I’ve tried this query in several forms in the data set but it hasn’t worked.

Thanks.

You can right click on the parameters under the Data tab and use the Bring Forward and Send Backwards menu options – this will affect the order they are executed and seen by the user.

Prashant

I’ve set some “cascading parameters”, but I’d like to reorder them, because at the moment they appear in the order I created them, but it’s not the order I want them to appear to the user (it’s the exact opposite order).

Do you know if there is any way to do this?

Have you had a look at this post, it has a little bit about using sub-reports.

Prashant.

Thanks for your helpful website.

i have problem to create subreport.

Can you prepare tutorial step by step for creating subreport?

Thank you.

regards,
norlaysia

That’s a simple and very smart way to do it. I’m using that for now. But as you may agree, that does not give us the ability to format the results as we wish. The result set comes in one column and we cannot, for example, show the result in one line with the values divided by some kind of separator.

I think the solution lays on the creation of a xaction file. Will try it when I have some time.

Thanks for the help and time disposed.

Cheers,
Rafael

One method (which I mentioned on IRC) is to use sub-reports. Create another query i.e. SELECT col FROM table WHERE col IN ${param} and assign that query to the sub-report which is inline with your report header. Import the ${param} as a parameter in the sub-report and then just drug the col value onto the details section of the sub-report.

Just one method maybe you have figured out a better way?

Prashant

Thanks for posting this. It’s really straightforward and very helpful.
I Have a question though:

How can I print the selected items from a multi-value select box into the report? I Want to know the parameters used to generate the values just by looking to the report output.

Thanks in advance.