Concatenating Field Values

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Concatenating Field Values

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Ninja's_RGR'us SSC Guru Points: 294069 More actions · Answer 1

ejoell 66477 (7/13/2011)
I thought the JOIN(hiddenParameter, ",") would be just what I needed. Unfortunately all I get is a list of "#ERROR". And it still returned one row for each row in the dataset. Anyone have any ideas why this did not work? Point of Information; I need to be able to show a user how to do this in Report Builder 2.0. So code answers and T-SQL answers will not be applicable in my situation.

Please start a new thread and post the link in here.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003869 More actions · Answer 2

ejoell 66477 (7/13/2011)
I thought the JOIN(hiddenParameter, ",") would be just what I needed. Unfortunately all I get is a list of "#ERROR". And it still returned one row for each row in the dataset. Anyone have any ideas why this did not work? Point of Information; I need to be able to show a user how to do this in Report Builder 2.0. So code answers and T-SQL answers will not be applicable in my situation.

I'd recommend that you find a "Report Builder 2.0 forum". 😉

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priyaram51 SSC Enthusiast Points: 106 More actions · Answer 3

Here is the Ans

= Cstr(Parameters!Location_ID.Label) & ", "

priyaram51 SSC Enthusiast Points: 106 More actions · Answer 4

Here is the ans

=Cstr(Parameters!Location_ID.Label) & ", "

ejoell 66477 Right there with Babe Points: 758 More actions · Answer 5

ejoell 66477 (7/13/2011)
I thought the JOIN(hiddenParameter, ",") would be just what I needed. Unfortunately all I get is a list of "#ERROR". And it still returned one row for each row in the dataset.

Actually the Join(hiddenParameter, ",") does work. It is necessary to allow multiple values for the parameter. However it takes a great deal of resources to run on limited Navy resources.

priyaram51 we were not trying to just join one character to returned field we wer trying to concatenate all the rows together.

Funny thing as it turns out, that is exactly what the user wanted. He did not want one concatenated string of all the email addresses. He only wanted a list each email address concatenated with a ";", which is so easy that our non-SSRS conversant program manager could do it, (except that he did not know that expressions were written in VB). Then the user would then export the report to a csv file which he would then open in notepad and paste into outlook. Duh.

jgreen 70641 SSC Enthusiast Points: 197 More actions · Answer 6

Hi Devo_Scott - The only thing I have ever used for this is the FOR XML PATH like Jeff Moden shared. Being fairly new to SSRS and SSMS, this particular function was tricky for me at times. So I've had issues ironing out that function to work correctly, but one thing I have noticed with SSRS is that the parameter variable has to match exactly (spelling of course, but case-wise too!). Otherwise, it acts like that variable is not there.

There have been several times I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels and not getting anywhere with my code only to find that SSRS is looking for @startdate instead of @StartDate... :crazy:

HTH,

Jessica