You could do it with each object in the header, or if it's only a one page report you could turn the Show Header on First Page Property to false...

You could add it as a parameter defaulted to either visible or not whichever is the most prevalent (or whichever set of users will complain the loudest). Return True...

That helps to give a much better understanding of what you are looking for. Unfortunately I don't have 2008 to test with and I wasn't able to easily find...

A picture is worth a 1000 words for something like this, as I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for, but why not just switch your column groups to row...

Yes I'm seeing the same issue here... Sorry read it quickly and didn't realize you were using body data in your header.

You could try putting a hidden textbox...

How are you populating the 4000 item drop down list? A query perhaps?

Why not restrict the values returned from the query? Alternatively, you could build a custom front...

If you have a parameter named StartDate and one named EndDate You would put something like this in your textbox expression...

="Start Date: " & Parameters!StartDate.Value

Or if you wanted to...

Although I'm sure there might be a better way using either the choose or switch functions you could use nested IIFs Something like...

IIF( Right(ReportItems!txtItemType.Value,4)="TEST", Display a value, IIF(Right(ReportItems!txtItemType.Value,4)="MPLE",...

Yup, That's another valid approach, I guess I just prefer parsing a string with a CTE or Tally table to dealing with XML and custom code in the code window...

Nope, no problems there, I'm actually interested to see if SSRS 08 allows the use of TVP to pass data to and from other datasets. I think it could...

I suppose you could do that in 2008, obviously not in 2000 which the OP was asking about. The way I kinda do the same thing in SSRS05 would...

It's one of the many reasons I prefer to grill my bacon. It's outside and so is the lingering greasy smell. It's easier to get it nice a...

Also, if you give us some code and sample data to go on we might be better able to help you.

-Luke.

I thought about sticking the results of one query in a public temp table (i.e. ##temp). It works, but it seems a bit hacky, you know, like I have to...

I'm guessing you mean selecting dates for use as parameters for your reports. IF you make the parameter type a datetime value, you'll get a caldendar/date picker instead of...