thanks all for your replies, I have solved the issue! but i thought i may post something of interest to others:

Sometimes when you have the total minutes for something, it...

sorry i couldnt be more clear ill try again,

in my db, the status table contains 6 rows, with id's from 1 to 6.

if...

I think you'll need textbox11.Value to check its value

here is what i found:

Explanation

This error occurs when you attempt to set a value for a parameter that is read-only.

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whats the SQL you are using for the parameters? maybe there is a small logic problem

oh ok, so in the properties field of the text box, just put in "hh:mm" as the custom formatting??

I found a better way of doing it, if your value from the DB is a DateTime object, you can use the .ToShortTimeString() function on your value in the expression...

yeah, i think it didnt like it inside a text field, because I have parameters in the report and the parameters default values allow the .ToString("dd/Mm/yyyy") function, so i dont...

yes it is, but i think ive got it now, i had to use the convert function in my sql to convert it to a time value...

convert(varchar(10),job_date,108) as time

seems to...

yes that is what I meant, thanks

for those of you interested, I got it.

To hide a row that has no values, simply put an expression into the row that you want to hide which will result...

do you have write permission for the temp dir that it is trying to save to? Maybe its trying to save to a network drive of somesort?

yeah, thats going to be a tricky one. If anyone knows how to do this please give me a clue or even some remote thought about it. I really need...

I know that this may be a bit obvious, ubt have you checked that the parameter you are setting in the Report Parameters window is the same name as the...

Ok i got it, sort of...

What I did was I didnt even use a subreport, but i used groups of the table element and added more groups as needed. Not...