Question on Parameters

Hi,
I have a subreport and it has 2 procedures attached to it. The first procedure accepts clientID and LOB and the second procedure accepts policyid and policyimage... The policy and the policy image is got from the first procedure.
The way i have set the up parameters is the first parameters clientid and lob are entered by the user and for the third and fourth paramters..
I have the set avaible values to the the first data and then selected the policy field for the value and label and set the default value to 0 or NULL. I have done the same thing for the 4 parameter selected the policyimage as the label and value.
The issue I am running into is when the first dataset returns no rows... it is giving me an error saying policy is need even though I am setting the default value to 0 or null (tried giving 0 and Null but still get the same error)
How can i fix this error.. any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Karen

Hi Karen,
Based on your description, did you add cascading parameter in the report? The third and fourth parameters is depend on the first and second parameters.
If I understand correctly, the issue is if there have no data return by the first and second parameters, it will have no values to be select in the third and fourth parameters. It will let us to select a value for the corresponding parameter. In this situation,
please refer to the steps below to resolve the issue:
Double click the third parameter.
Select “Allow null value” option in the General dialog box.
Click Default Values in the left pane.
Click “Add” icon and fill with “Null” value.
Use the same method to configure the fourth parameter.
If there are any misunderstanding, please elaborate the issue for further analysis.
Regards,
Alisa Tang
Alisa Tang
TechNet Community Support

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