"Session" values

Is it possible to have the equivalent of a session value? What I'm wanting
to do is get the user to choose a value (item center) on the home page and
use that value to filter all the reports. Then if he wants to see the
reports for a different item center, he must go back to the home page and
choose a different one.
Even better, display the same list of item centers as a filter option at the
top of each report and default it to the currently chosen item center.
Any ideas on how to do this? I saw a post where someone asked if it was
possible to create a global variable to use throughout all reports and noone
answered him. So I'm assuming that it can't be done. But I'm asking anyhow.
Thanks
ToddTodd,
If you create your own web application, you can certainly keep track of some
value and pass it to your reports as one of the parameters. AFAIK, there is
no built-in functionality in the ReportServer or Report Manager web apps.
Ted
"Todd Bright" wrote:
> Is it possible to have the equivalent of a session value? What I'm wanting
> to do is get the user to choose a value (item center) on the home page and
> use that value to filter all the reports. Then if he wants to see the
> reports for a different item center, he must go back to the home page and
> choose a different one.
> Even better, display the same list of item centers as a filter option at the
> top of each report and default it to the currently chosen item center.
> Any ideas on how to do this? I saw a post where someone asked if it was
> possible to create a global variable to use throughout all reports and noone
> answered him. So I'm assuming that it can't be done. But I'm asking anyhow.
> Thanks
> Todd|||So basically each report is just a standalone report, right?
"Ted K" wrote:
> Todd,
> If you create your own web application, you can certainly keep track of some
> value and pass it to your reports as one of the parameters. AFAIK, there is
> no built-in functionality in the ReportServer or Report Manager web apps.
> Ted
> "Todd Bright" wrote:
> > Is it possible to have the equivalent of a session value? What I'm wanting
> > to do is get the user to choose a value (item center) on the home page and
> > use that value to filter all the reports. Then if he wants to see the
> > reports for a different item center, he must go back to the home page and
> > choose a different one.
> >
> > Even better, display the same list of item centers as a filter option at the
> > top of each report and default it to the currently chosen item center.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to do this? I saw a post where someone asked if it was
> > possible to create a global variable to use throughout all reports and noone
> > answered him. So I'm assuming that it can't be done. But I'm asking anyhow.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Todd