Binding a report to data passed in as parameters

How do I build a report that is not bound to any datasource at design time? When invoking through a URL I want to pass the data as part of the query string and I want that to appear as part of the report. How can I do it?
thanks
Srinivas

If you are saying that you want to create the query to execute at runtime then you can use lexical parameters.
At design time you create a user parameter "P_myQuery" with a default value of "select ename from emp" and then create a query whose only content is "&P_myQuery". You can then change the query completely at runtime.
Now, if you want to pass data through at runtime, you either have: Single values that you want do display or rows of data.
For single values you can create a report with no queries and just display the user parameters directly.
For rows of data that you want to pass in, you can either create a dynamic query using the lexical method described above; insert the values into a table in the before report trigger and query them back or use one of the Text/XML pluggable datasource to retieve the values through a URL.

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