Comments on: Setting a Data Source at Runtime on SQL Reporting Services

By: george1075

george1075 — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:47:08 +0000

Highly recommended for people just getting started on SQL selects.
Sql tutorial:http://www.sql-reports.net/2011/03/sql-select-tutorials.html

By: george1075

george1075 — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:45:09 +0000

The site SQL Reports has a great SQL tutorial.
SQL Reports:http://www.sql-reports.net/

By: beakersoft

beakersoft — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:58:01 +0000

Drew, i used active directory groups to control the access to the database. I have a table that maps databases to groups, and as a user access’s the site i only allow them to connect to the databases based on their group membership.

Hope that helps

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:58:39 +0000

I can handle the interface to build a way to undate the tables used in this article. Only problem is the article isn’t clear on providing the report user a way to control which database is available. Is there a query to the database to check which databases the current user is ALLOWED access to? Otherwise, thanks for the article. I am sure we will be able to use it in some form or fashion. Cheers.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:42:17 +0000

You mentioned in the beginning about allowing high end users access to multiple databases. I assume you would just un-hide the database parameter?

By: minosam

minosam — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:10:58 +0000

thanks for ur effort , I did as u indicate, but the dataset couldn’t be fill with field, so any solution avaliable

By: beakersoft

beakersoft — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:52:28 +0000

madhu, yes you need an entry for the username in the users table, this is how it maps to the database

By: Madhu

Madhu — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:14:59 +0000

Thanks Beakersoft For ur quick reply

yes same i mapped in dataset filter but its not working.i think we should have entry of login username in reportserver.users table?

Sorry to say i didnt understand ur point could you please explain me in detail.

let me explain u my problem is:

from my web application i login with username “madhu”,so for this username we have to maintain any entries in any table?

some where im missing the flow please help me out to solve this,im breaking my head from last weak

Thanks
madhu

By: beakersoft

beakersoft — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:04:35 +0000

Madhu,

“Fields!username.value=User!UserID” is the current logged on user, (so it would return domain\username)

It uses this to go and get the users info out of the DB, without this you would not be able to tie a user and a database together

By: Madhu

Madhu — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:36:45 +0000

Hi
Its a great stuff and cleared all of my problems
but one thing i didnt get is about getting the user who run the report.
could you please clear my doubt
in the creation of dataset you made a filter like
“Fields!username.value=User!UserID”
here i dint understand how u will get and where we get “User!UserID”. im calling reports from web interface so i need to get the login user from web application and passed to report server?
please tell me how will we do this..?
Advance Thans