Help with FilterExpression in BIDS 2005 - I'm going crazy

  • Hi all,

    I hope someone can help. I'm about to pull my hair out. Something as simple as a filter expression in BIDS 2005 is not working.

    All I want to do is show results where two numbers divided together are >= .01. I'm getting a "failed to evaluate filter expression" error.

    The two numbers from the dataset are from a Stored Proc, where the columns are [money] datatype.

    -- First I tried this in the Filter Expression (on a table):

    Expression: =(Fields!Collected.Value/Fields!Discounted.Value)

    Operator: >=

    Value: =.01

    When I do it this way, I get the message "Cannot compare date of types System.Decimal and System.Double.

    -- So, I changed it to this, in an attempt to force the datatypes to be the same:

    Expression: =(CDec(Fields!Collected.Value)/CDec(Fields!Discounted.Value))

    Operator: >=

    Value: =CDec(.01)

    Now I get the error "Failed to evaluate FilterExpression."

    This is driving me insane. I'm trying to keep the number of stored procedures (SP) down to a minimum. The same SP is used for other reports which need the same data presented a bit differently in the report definition. All I want to do is filter the results shown. I don't want to create yet another SP to maintain just to get around a crazy, practically unusable filter setting in BIDS. (sorry - just so frustrated right now)

    Can anyone help please?? Thanks!!

  • How about

    Expression: =CDec(Fields!Collected.Value/Fields!Discounted.Value)

    Value: =0.01

    I suspect that dividing two decimals is giving you a float datatype, so convert them to decimal after the division.

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